Lecture: Propositional Music and Illusions of Form

Tuesday, 01/23, 12:00 Noon, Hall Recital Hall

Across the scope of the composer’s work, the ways in which we extract forms from both musical and natural phenomena and construct interfaces for interacting with them are often offered up for reimagining. Forms may be viewed as acts of cognitive synthesis, neuro-aesthetic emergences, and music may arise from propositional models of invented worlds. With selected examples, the composer explores ways we might think composition into being through acts of reflexive critical practice: imagining as composition, imagining asperformance, listening as composition, listening as performance, composition as situating, composition asinviting, composition as co-creation, form as cognitive synthesis, composer-performer practice as situating cognitive synthesis, and more.

Performance: Spontaneous Propositional Music

Tuesday, 01/23, 5:00PM, Hall Recital Hall

In my writings on Propositional Music, I describe a method of composing that always reaches back to an important principle for each new beginning, which asks, “What will be the domain of distinction and thought from which the means for delineating the entities in this work that will receive compositional attention and choice making may emerge for each musical action?” This process of continuous beginnings belies the very idea of style. A genre-less musical world thus unfolds. This performance will bloom as an assemblage in time drawing on and blending material from several compositions.

Composition Seminar

Wednesday, 01/24, 10:00AM, UNR Electro-Acoustic Lab