What's On: Music

10th May 2021

ResearchWorks: East and West in Conversation

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Dr Preetha Narayanan explores what the confluence of Indian and Western Classical improvisation reveals about the expression and aesthetic of each style and that of the resulting new creation.

6:00pm

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17th May 2021

ResearchWorks: Contradiction as method

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Professor Anna Seymour offers a dramatherapeutic approach to re-examining Brechtian praxis in current times.

6:00pm

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24th May 2021

ResearchWorks: "But what do we say to the birds?"

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Dr Bennett Hogg argues that musicians and sound artists whose processes involve sonic participation in the environment afford an opportunity to interrogate how we think about, experience, and care for the more-than-human world we live on.

6:00pm

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7th June 2021

ResearchWorks: Applied Theatre – From performance and war to the aesthetics of care

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Professor James Thompson outlines the case for care to be understood as an aesthetic practice – embodied, sensory and crafted – and the implications of thinking about careful art and artful care for arts, and care workers today.

6:00pm

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14th June 2021

ResearchWorks: Where and How Does Music Make Sense in Contemporary Social Life?

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Presenting cases from his research on the role of popular music in politically and culturally divided societies, Dr Alessandro Mazzola outlines and critically analyses an original interdisciplinary perspective on music research.

6:00pm

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28th June 2021

ResearchWorks: The Romantic National Song Network

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This presentation by Professor Kirsteen McCue will talk through the formation of the Romantic National Song Network; showcasing its findings and reflecting on how projects like this can breathe life into historical song repertoire.

6:00pm

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5th July 2021

ResearchWorks: The Making of Henny Penny

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Julian Philips and Stephen Plaice discuss Henny Penny: a new participatory children’s opera that offers Primary School children an immersive experience in both music and modern languages, within an operatic context.

6:00pm

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