CMRC Seminar: Practice as presence; the Unmeasured project
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This seminar will focus on Christopher Fox and Kate Ledger's collaboration and, in particular, on the Unmeasured album that they recorded last year, to be released on HCR/NMC in May. There are three tracks, Figures of light, Es war einmal and senza misura, each with different compositional preoccupations: respectively, music as light, story-telling and resonance. They want to discuss the coming together of ideas about forming and performing, in particular, what Kate calls the practice of ‘presence’, each attack dissolving into decay and a shaping of the next attack, and the extent to which the music permits her to sink into the detail of now.
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About the speakers
Kate Ledger is a pianist specialising in embodiment, experimental music, spirituality, and creative collaboration. Her PhD explored performer subjectivity, somatics and pianistic embodiment in the context of composer collaboration. Through numerous collaborations she has gathered a bespoke repertoire which she has performed internationally and nationally, most notably at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley International Concert Series, KM28 (Berlin), amexperimental (Huddersfield) and Radio 3's New Music Show. www.kateledgerpiano.com
Christopher Fox is a composer and, sometimes, a writer on music. At the heart of his work are close collaborations with the musicians who perform his music, including Kate Ledger, the cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, and the ensembles Apartment House and EXAUDI. Since 2015 he has been editor journal Tempo. In 2021 he was elected as a member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin and in 2022 he became an Honorary Professor of Music at the University of York.
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