Archaeology in electronic music: Re-discovering Turenas by John Chowning

Commercial Music research seminar series, seminar 4
CCA Cinema, CCA Glasgow
Tuesday 26th February 2013
5.30pm

Dr Laurent Pottier (University of Saint-Etienne)

Electronic music uses tools that are evolving at an incredible speed. Many pieces of music that were written during the last fifty years can no longer be played again because they used electronic instruments that no longer work today. With the development of computer technologies, the situation is even worse. For this reason it is important to develop a new language for creating digital tools that will last over time. In parallel, we apply these tools to preserve some important pieces of the digital music repertoire.

In this seminar, we will show how the language can be used for creating DSP (Digital Signal Processing) applications. We will also present the piece Turenas by the American composer John Chowning (inventor of the FM sound synthesis technique and of sound spatialization theory). This piece was initially only available for a 4-track tape but we have rewritten it, for four performers, electronic percussions and a computer.

Laurent Pottier has been teaching Computer Music at the University of Saint-Etienne (France) since 2005. He was Musical Assistant for Computer Music at IRCAM-Centre George Pompidou in Paris from 1992 to 1996,  and then  became the Scientific Director of GMEM (National Center for Musical Creation) in Marseille from 1997 to 2004. He has both a PhD in Science (1986) and in Musicology (2001).

Art as unlearning: finding a place

UWS MEd Artist Teacher Programme

School of Education presents

Professor John Baldecchino (Falmouth University)

Art as unlearning: finding a place

Gallery of Modern Art

Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow

Saturday 2nd February 2013

10.30 - 12.30

Somewhere to start with ...
As I have argued in my recent paper Willed Forgetfulness, to make a case for unlearning is to reject the assumption that somehow, unlearning will become a new model for education. Unlearning is neither a new pedagogy, nor a new way of doing art. There is nothing new in unlearning. Unlearning is implied in what we are by dint of what we do ... and vice-versa. The focus of unlearning is found in the paradox that seems to happen between being and doing which we always find much much later. So where does art come into this? Art is, amongst other, unlearning per se. It is such a space, such a place, such a moment ... such an afterthought that we realize much much later. Though as I say this ... I begin to doubt!

Speaker:
John Baldacchino is Associate Dean and Professor of Arts Pedagogy in the Graduate School, Falmouth University. He was full time faculty at Teachers College Columbia University, New York, Gray’s School of Art, Scotland, and Warwick University, England. He is the author of six books, including Education Beyond Education (Peter Lang, 2009); Makings of the Sea (Gorgias, 2010); and Art’s Way Out (Sense, 2012). Amongst other, he is currently completing two books, including John Dewey: Liberty and the pedagogy of disposition (Springer 2013)

Website: www.johnbaldecchino.com