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A Manifold Sense of Place in the Music of Charles Ives by Dr Drew Hammond from Glasgow University.
Talks on issues related to musicology, composition, sonic arts, sound studies and various music-related, but interdisciplinary subjects.
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.)
Dr Drew Hammond was born and raised in Central Kentucky. He gained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Guilford College, North Carolina, with a major in both jazz and classical piano performance, as well as a minor in Geology. After moving to Boston, Massachusetts he met the composer Bill Sweeney who (in part) convinced him to move to Glasgow, Scotland to study composition. Under Sweeney's supervision, he obtained a Doctorate in composition from Glasgow University in 2009. He has since divided his time between Lecturing at the University of Glasgow and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and building a folio of compositions that are largely rooted in reflections on the natural world and the cultural and physical environments of Central Kentucky and Appalachia. His current research interests align with and build upon the burgeoning areas of 21st century eco-criticism and eco-poetics.
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- MacRobert Building
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http://abdn.ac.uk/music/autumn-2015-music-research-seminar-series-518.php
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