After a successful 2013 series, More Talk, Less Action returns in 2014 to explore the issues and taboos relevant to experimental and cutting edge music. Each event features a panel discussion with audience participation along with performances relevant to the discussion topic.
Thursday 7 August 2014 (7:30pm) – $10 entry
Composition is Dead: writing music in the 21st centuryCat Hope, Ross Bencina, Warren Burt (with Callum G’Froerer and Cathexis performing works by Hope)
West Space, Level 1, 225 Bourke street, Melbourne.
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The twentieth century saw a series of musical upheavals,
from modernism and atonality to chance composition, electronic music and
rock’n'roll. The status of ‘composer’ has been continuously challenged,
discarded and re-imagined. Our panelists work has addressed the ‘composer
problem’ in the 21st Century, employing strategies as varied as
graphic/generative scores, the revolutionary Audio Mulch software, and the use
of pre-existing formats (such as DNA mapping) as compositional material. Callum
G’Froerer and Cathexis will perform scores composed by Cat Hope.
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