ResearchWorks: Un Canto por la Vida, embracing alterity in social action through music Natalia Juliana Puerta discusses the social impact of the institutional, community, pedagogical and artistic practices in Colombian municipal music schools.
ResearchWorks: “Capir sentendo”: Sounding out Dante, first round This presentation by Alessandro Timossi examines aspects of a project devised for the celebration in 2021 of 700 years of Dante’s death.
ResearchWorks :The Game Music Toolbox Marios Aristopoulos explores the interactive composition techniques in Mario Kart 8, Alien Isolation, Tomb Raider, Cyberpunk 2077, and The Last of Us.
ResearchWorks: Cyborg Soloists - Music and Technology in the Expanded Field Zubin Kanga presents case studies from his project exploring interactions between music, the other arts, and new digital technologies.
ResearchWorks: The Echo, the Ear and the Opening: the radical use of speculative imagining Emily Orley rethinks the Greek myth of Echo to discuss the value of creative-critical writing, imaginative license, and speculative thinking.
ResearchWorks: Curational Composing Ed McKeon examines the production of public encounters that challenge traditional models of value, drawing from the late work of John Cage.
ResearchWorks: The Importance of the Juba Dance Dwight Pile-Gray explores how the influence of slavery and spirituals is woven into a symphonic framework in the work of African American 20th-century composers.
Robert Levin Lecture-Recital: Bach’s Tonal Universe Professor Robert Levin's Guildhall residency ends with this lecture-recital examining Bach’s systematic tonal scheme and its far-reaching interpretive consequences.
Concert & Discussion: Duo Improvisations between Human and AI Performer-improviser David Dolan and composer-programmer Oded Ben-Tal present the first UK concert that features an Artificial Intelligence (AI) computerised system performing duo improvisations in real time with a human.