BERLIN - Sound Studies Lecture No9

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Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
ich würde mich sehr freuen, Sie bei der neunten Lecture begrüßen zu dürfen
am Montag, den 11. Januar 2009 - 19:00 Uhr

Universität der Künste Berlin
Sound Studies - Akustische Kommunikation
Zentralinstitut für Weiterbildung

Lietzenburger Straße 45 - Raum 314
Berlin-Wilmersdorf
(U3/U9 Spichernstraße)
http://www.udk-berlin.de/soundstudies

Mit herzlichen Grüßen
--- Martin Supper

Sound Studies Lectures

Simon Emmerson
Rhythm, metre, polystylism in electroacoustic music

Synopsis: There are many kinds of electroacoustic music - especially if we
include the 'new wave' of experimental electronica, glitch, noise and so on.
But many of these have a very uneasy relationship with so-called 'art
music'. Is this because some people are uneasy with 'rhythm and metre' in
electroacoustic music? or maybe uneasy with quotations and 'plundering' of
sounds? At least we can come up with some questions even if we do not have
all the answers ...
Since November 2004 Simon Emmerson has been Professor of Music, Technology
and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester, following twenty eight
years as Director of the Electroacoustic Music studios at City University,
London. As a composer he works mostly with live electronics; recent
commissions include such works for Jane Chapman (harpsichord), the Smith
Quartet, Philip Sheppard (electric cello), Philip Mead (piano) with the
Royal Northern College of Music Brass Quintet, Katrin Zenz (flute). He has
also completed purely electroacoustic commissions from the IMEB (Bourges)
and the GRM (Paris). CDs of his works have been issued by Continuum (1993)
and Sargasso (2007 and 2008). He contributed to and edited The Language of
Electroacoustic Music in 1986 (Macmillan, still in print) and Music,
Electronic Media and Culture (Ashgate, 2000). His book Living Electronic
Music was published by Ashgate in 2007. He has contributed to such as
Computer Music Journal, Contemporary Music Review and Journal of New Music
Research. He was founder Secretary of EMAS (The Electroacoustic Music
Association of Great Britain) in 1979, and served on the Board of Sonic Arts
Network from its inception until 2004. He is a Trustee of its successor
organisation 'Sound and Music'. In 2009-2010 he is DAAD Edgard Varèse
Visiting Professor at TU Berlin.