Nicolas Donin Distinguished Lecture: Does the ecological crisis translate into new music
Schedule
Mon Jan 20 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
527 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3A1E3 | Montreal, QC
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A Distinguished Lecture from Nicolas Donin, professor in the Musicology Department at the Université de Genève, Switzerland.Pour consulter ces informations en français, veuillez consulter notre site web : https://www.cirmmt.org/fr/events/distinguished-lectures/nicolas-donin
*Veuillez noter que cette conférence se déroulera en anglais.
Abstract
Like many other citizens, musicians more and more question their life choices in light of current knowledge about human-caused changes of climate, biodiversity, etc. When I edited an issue of Circuit entitled "Composing in the Anthropocene" (vol. 32, no. 2, 2022), I asked composers whether their concerns about this ecological crisis did translate into their creative work, and some of them felt it difficult, or uneasy, to connect those two areas. In parallel, I started to investigate this as an aesthetic problem: can (new) music ’sound’ ecological? Which specific compositional techniques emerge from the work of ecologically-minded musicians? In this talk I’d like to share some of the questions, obstacles, and amazements that have been arising over the course of this ongoing research.
Biography
Nicolas Donin is Professor and Chair of musicology at the University of Geneva. He has published extensively on the history of music and musicology since the late nineteenth century, with a focus on contemporary composition and performance.
For more details, please see: https://www.cirmmt.org/en/events/distinguished-lectures/nicolas-donin
Thank you to our partners:
FRQ, CFI, McGill, UdeM, UdeS, and ÉTS
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