In this conversation led by Dr Zubin Kanga, Swedish composer, Jesper Nordin and French conductor, Marc Desmons discuss their collaboration on Nordin’s new work Sculpting the Air, to be premiered by Ensemble TM+ at ManiFeste on 13 June. The

June 8, 2015 36 min

June 8, 2015 11 min

Nicholas Bourriaud’s ‘journey form’ and auto-ethnographic observation are both employed to analyse my performances of open notation scores for organ and electronics in this presentation. Examples are drawn from my own works and collaborati

June 8, 2015 49 min

This presentation outlines a series of collaborative explorations of gesture in the respective practices of the two authors: a guitarist and a composer. First we discuss how, in Go To Hell (a multi-media work set in in a decommissioned nucl

June 8, 2015 01 h 01 min

Stravinsky’s claim that performance calls for the ‘solution of problems similar to those which arise in the realm of choreography’ has been surprisingly little explored by musicologists. This presentation will explore the notion of respons

June 8, 2015 53 min

Considering scholarly methods of investigation about contemporary music, there are some areas of this repertoire that remain unclear, especially because the score does not provide a perfect mirror of the final performance. This is the case

June 8, 2015 49 min

This presentation examines three works for piano and electronics, recently performed by Zubin Kanga, a concert pianist that feature diverse approaches to composition as ‘building an instrument’ (following Lachenmann’s definition of composit

June 8, 2015 55 min

There are no fixed rules in the composer/performer collaborative work. Proposition and transformation are two interchangeable processes, which constitute the basis of this dialogue. As part of the GEMME [Musical Gesture: Models and Experim

June 8, 2015 50 min