Between Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art: On Music, Sound and Space
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Between Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art: On Music, Sound and Space

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@Between 2019 Festival, KMH, Stockholm
Monday 11 Nov – 14:00-16:00

How is space conceptualized and put into practice in music and sound art today? Building on my volume Music, Sound and Space, in this lecture I pursue the evolving ways in which music produces space and space produces music, in an attempt to bring some clarity to this burgeoning dimension of compositional practice. I add insight into the institutional conditions that have favored evolving paradigms; and I pursue, in particular, the ways in which the spatial qualities of certain strands of electroacoustic music and sound art configure distinctive kinds of musical publics. The overarching message is that these dimensions of compositional and musical practice demand to be engaged with reflexively by musicians and composers. The effect is to make explicit how musical space can be inventively reworked, and how closely linked these processes are to social dimensions of musical experience.