MRSS 2015-2106: Dr Drew Hammond (University of Glasgow)

MRSS 2015-2106: Dr Drew Hammond (University of Glasgow)
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Dr Hammond from the University Glasgow presents his research on the sense of place in the music of Charles Ives.

Title: A Manifold Sense of Place in the Music of Charles Ives 

Abstract: The 21st century's burgeoning eco-critical perspective in the arts has focussed on the tension between social construction and ecological reality, as well as an examination of the evolving meaning of “place”.   This has given us the opportunity to rethink the ways that traditional musicology has tended to address nature as a social construction rather than a manifold physical reality.   As such this paper seeks to examine some of the music of Charles Ives with a new lens, in hopes of gaining a better understanding of how I may continue to poeticise place in my own compositions.  This will include an introduction to the Organ Spaces Project, through which I am seeking new ways of meaningfully embedding musical performance in a multiform sense of place from the description provided for us by the eco-critic Lawrence Buell, “toward environmental materiality, toward social perception or construction, and toward individual affect or bond” (Buell, The Future of Environmental Criticism, 63.)

Speaker
Dr Drew Hammond (University of Glasgow)
Hosted by
Department of Music
Venue
MR055, MacRobert Building
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