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Music Research Talks 14/15: Georges Dimitrov, Concordia: Composing Time


Date & time
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Cost

All talks are free of charge and open to the public.

Where


Room MB 8.265 (1450 Guy Street)

Georges Dimitrov, Concordia: Composing Time

Music is, by essence, an art inscribed in duration.  Yet, the relationship of music with time remains elusive.  On one hand, time is so fundamental to musical expression that it is taken for granted; on the other, time - or the  perception that the listener has of it - is often concealed by the process of analysis which concerns itself with organization rather than its essence itself.  Time can however become a musical parameter in its own right and contribute to the semantic construction of the work.  The problem composer faces is thus similar to the one facing the movie director who would wish to act on the perception of the screen itself - time is likewise a frame in the musical medium. Building on the work of Kramer this presentation explores the poietic processes that composers use to establish this dialectic between the work and its temporal frame. The shift of the listener’s attention from the content toward the container often implies strategies of distanciation, but which ones? When applied to music, theories developed for literature and cinema, in particular those of Paul Ricoeur and Gilles Deleuze, shed on the issue a new light and help understand its mechanics, illustrated at the conclusion of the talk through one of my own works.

 

Dr. Georges Dimitrov is an Artist-in-Residence composer and professor of composition in Concordia’s Department of Music.

 

 

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