Stefan Prins – From “Not I” to “under_current”: the electric guitar in my life

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 12-2pm [online via Minerva]

Stefan will talk about two pieces in which the electric guitar is central: an ‘early’ piece (Not I, for e-guitar and live-electronics) and under_current, his electric guitar “concerto”, which will have been premiered, a few days before the talk, in Donaueschingen. He will discuss the e-guitar in his music, electronics, collaborating with performers, and algorithmic composition versus pencil and paper.

For more information about Stefan please see his website.

Laura Steenberge – Blank banderoles

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Laura Steenberge’s work as a performer and composer is informed by the study of iconography, music and psychoacoustic phenomena that have represented imaginary and supernatural voices through the ages. For this talk, she will discuss several recent pieces alongside banderoles, necromancers, and medieval chant. Laura Steenberge is an […]

Marko Ciciliani – Composing in Expanded Fields

Wednesday 6 April, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Since almost two decades my compositions often included visual components. While for a long time I focused on specific relationships between the visual and sonic layer – audiovisual composition in a strict sense – in more recent works the inclusion of other disciplines led me to abandon standard […]

Sara Glojnarić

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] – rescheduled from last year Sara will be discussing recontextualization as a compositional strategy, pop-culture nostalgia, translation as extended authorship, and the juxtaposition of these processes, while showcasing both video (This Champagne Is Burned, popfem #2) and acoustic pieces (Artefacts 2, Latitudes, Im Stein) from 2018 to today. Sara Glojnarić is a composer based in Stuttgart, Germany, […]