Masterclass and workshop by Denis Smalley

Denis Smalley, an internationally acclaimed composer and scholar of electroacoustic music, gives masterclass and workshop to Aberdeen student composers

Invited by the department of music and SERG, Denis Smalley will give a masterclass and workshop to the student composers at the University of Aberdeen. During the masterclass, which is open to all Aberdeen music students and invited guests, Smalley will critique three student composers' work. And at the workshop, which will follow immediately after the masterclass, Smalley will revisit and discuss his work, Spectral Lands, a 6-channel electroacoustic composition he will have played at Rediscoveries 3 on the previous day.

The detailed schedule on the 13th of February:

• Masterclass with Denis Smalley - 10:00 - 11:30
• Workshop by Denis Smalley - 11:40 - 12:40

For more information about this event, please contact the Music Office or Dr Suk-Jun Kim (s.kim@abdn.ac.uk)

A short bio of Denis Smalley

Denis Smalley was born in New Zealand in 1946. He studied music at the University of Canterbury and the Victoria University of Wellington prior to studying at the Paris Conservatoire with Messiaen, and with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales. He then moved to England, living initially in York where he completed a doctorate in composition at the University of York. Until 1994 he was Senior Lecturer in Music and Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studio at the University of East Anglia. He then moved to City University, London as Professor of Music and Head of the Department of Music. He retired from City University in 2009, and is now Professor Emeritus.Denis Smalley been active as a composer of electroacoustic music for thirty-five years, and his works have been widely acclaimed, winning a number of international awards including the Prix Ars Electronica in 1988. In 2008 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Huddersfield for his achievements in electroacoustic music. He has made original contributions to thinking about electroacoustic music, in particular his investigations into the listener's perception of electroacoustic music, and his development of the notion of spectromorphology  (the shaping of sound spectra through time).  His most recent major writing was published in Organised Sound  (12) 1: Space-form and the Acousmatic Image. A book on his music and ideas was published by GRM/INA in the Polychrome Portraits series - in English in 2010, and in French in 2011 - and there are associated on-line resources available at INA-GRM.

Speaker

Denis Smalley

Hosted by

Department of Music, School of Education

Venue

The Bennachie Studio (MR015), MacRobert Building

Contact

The masterclass is open to all music students and invited guests while the workshop is free and open to the public.