2014-15 Music Research Seminar Series: Professor Pete Stollery

Placing Sound: How a notion of place has informed recent compositional work

Over a thirty five year career of composing using technology I have become more and more fascinated by a notion of place and how it affects my approaches to and the methodologies used in my work. Tracing a path from the soundscape piece ABZ/A in 1998 to the recent From Aberdeen, to the hamlets of the Argentine for saxophone and digital sound, I will discuss these approaches and methodologies using examples from my work and pose a few questions about the links between sound and place.