CMRC Seminar: Andy Ingamells (composer-performer)

Seminar
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  • Date and time: Tuesday 24 October 2023, 4pm to 5.30pm
  • Location: In-person and online
    D/003, Sally Baldwin Buildings, Campus West, University of York (Map)
  • Audience: Open to staff, students, the public
  • Booking: Booking not required

Event details

Composer and performance artist Andy Ingamells talks about the relationships between the different elements of his work, and in particular the ways in whine his recent work develops forms of collaboration and social interaction.  

Musical situations are made up of a multitude of different relationships. G Douglas Barrett calls for a focus upon these relationships in his book After Sound, suggesting that music is “inherently premised upon structures of collaboration and social relationality”. Whilst percussionist Greg Stuart states that experimental music in particular “attempts to radically rethink the relationship between composition, performance and listening”. Through my own recent compositions, I have sought to develop new relationships with the people around me and will share these experiences with you all in this talk. This may include a trip to a petting zoo, a film on the moon, a pear tart, and a striptease.

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  • Meeting ID: 974 1147 1887
  • Passcode: 030134

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About the speaker

Andy Ingamells

Andy Ingamells is a composer-performer who conducts practice-based research into how the legacy of certain types of 20th century experimental music can lead to the formation of novel approaches to composition through the creation of original works. He performs in Private Hire, a duo with flautist Kathryn Williams in which the work teeters on a balance of rigorous enquiry and playfulness. In 2019 he formed a duo with composer Seán Clancy that explores the collaborative process through a kind of visual musique concrète arising from the images of performance situations.

Andy studied artistic research at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. In 2018 he was awarded a PhD from Birmingham Conservatoire for a thesis entitled, 'Grandchildren of Experimental Music – Performing the compositional act by creating intriguing situations in which musical sound may occur'. He now lives in Ireland and lectures in composition at Cork School of Music (part of Munster Technological University) where he also leads the Inclusive Music Ensemble.