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Bryn Harrison sits down for a chat with Prof. Robert Adlington to discuss the book 'Being Time: Case Studies in Musical Temporality', a book he co-wrote with Richard Glover and Jennie Gottschalk and published by Bloomsbury. They discuss how the book came about, its central thesis, and implications for the field of music research.
'Being Time' invites a deep consideration of the personal experience of temporality in music, focusing on the perceptual role of the listener. Through individual case studies, this book centers on musical works that deal with time in radical ways. These include pieces by Morton Feldman, James Saunders, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Ryoji Ikeda, Toshiya Tsunoda, Laurie Spiegel and André O. Möller. Multiple perspectives are explored through a series of encounters, initially between an individual and a work, and subsequently with each author's varying experiences of temporality. The authors compare their responses to features such as repetition, speed, duration and scale from a perceptual standpoint, drawing in reflections on aspects such as musical memory and anticipation. The observations made in this book are accessible and relevant to readers who are interested in exploring issues of temporality from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives.
This video was originally shot in 2019, and for a number of reasons was unavailable until now. A lot has changed in those intervening and so some of the credits here are now out of date. Bryn Harrison is now a Professor of Composition at the University of Huddersfield, whereas in this video he is credited as a Reader of Composition. Prof. Roberto Adlington has since left the department and, as of time of publication, is doing great things at the Royal College of Music. There is also a brief mention of Prof. Lisa Colton who has also left the department and is, at time of publication, based at the University of Liverpool.
'Being Time' is available from bloomsbury.com/uk/being-time-9781623564940
Bryn Harrison sits down for a chat with Prof. Robert Adlington to discuss the book 'Being Time: Case Studies in Musical Temporality', a book he co-wrote with Richard Glover and Jennie Gottschalk and published by Bloomsbury. They discuss how the book came about, its central thesis, and implications for the field of music research.
'Being Time' invites a deep consideration of the personal experience of temporality in music, focusing on the perceptual role of the listener. Through individual case studies, this book centers on musical works that deal with time in radical ways. These include pieces by Morton Feldman, James Saunders, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Ryoji Ikeda, Toshiya Tsunoda, Laurie Spiegel and André O. Möller. Multiple perspectives are explored through a series of encounters, initially between an individual and a work, and subsequently with each author's varying experiences of temporality. The authors compare their responses to features such as repetition, speed, duration and scale from a perceptual standpoint, drawing in reflections on aspects such as musical memory and anticipation. The observations made in this book are accessible and relevant to readers who are interested in exploring issues of temporality from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives.
This video was originally shot in 2019, and for a number of reasons was unavailable until now. A lot has changed in those intervening and so some of the credits here are now out of date. Bryn Harrison is now a Professor of Composition at the University of Huddersfield, whereas in this video he is credited as a Reader of Composition. Prof. Roberto Adlington has since left the department and, as of time of publication, is doing great things at the Royal College of Music. There is also a brief mention of Prof. Lisa Colton who has also left the department and is, at time of publication, based at the University of Liverpool.
'Being Time' is available from bloomsbury.com/uk/being-time-9781623564940
![Hans Tutschku: Technology, the expressive extension of my artistic sensibility [06.11.2017]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bFIhYpO2Uxg/mqdefault.jpg "Hans Tutschku: Technology, the expressive extension of my artistic sensibility [06.11.2017]
Visiting artist Hans Tutschku (Harvard University) discusses the role music technology has played in the development of his creative endeavours at CeReNeMs Creative Coding Lab
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