Contemporary Music Research Cluster Seminar: week 4 BLA BLA BLA - Systems, Information and External Influences
Event details
Following his visit to York last Friday (October 14) for the performance, including his new work, BLA BLA BLA, for pianos, samplers and spoken voice (York Concert Series: The Fairy Relentless Fitkins), Graham Fitkin talks about his work. Graham Fitkin discusses about his approaches to composing, the idea of information flow, tension and resolution, working with other musicians and how his work has become less abstract and more externally influenced. He will use a variety of musics within this seminar including piano solos, his latest pianos based work include: BLA BLA BLA, the political percussion solo Chain of Command, and his forthcoming instrumental and electronics work Shifter.
Meeting ID: 974 1147 1887
Passcode: 030134
About the speaker
Graham Fitkin
Graham Fitkin composes for both acoustic and electronic instruments, for live performance, recordings, dance, media and installations. As a composer-pianist, he directs and performs in the nine piece Fitkin Band, as well as his multi-piano group for The Fairly Relentless Fitkins project, and he works with harpist Ruth Wall as FitkinWall. His orchestral projects have included Composer-in-Residence with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and London Chamber Orchestra, and commissions from the Hallé Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), Athens Camerata, BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Chamber music collaborations have included work with: Yo-Yo Ma, The Sacconi Quartet, Kathryn Stott, Nederlands Blazersensemble, Powerplant, Will Gregory, Ensemble Bash, and Piano Circus. Fitkin frequently collaborates on cross-art projects, in contexts as diverse as Tate St Ives, the Minack Theatre, a VR collaboration with Shezad Dawood, the Geography music app for HFC, the tree-planting Birch 2020 project, and numerous projects with dancers and choreographers.