The School of Performance Presents: Carte Blanche #3 - Śabdagatitāra: How to Weave Musics

In his recent book Śabdagatitāra: How to Weave Musics, composer Sandeep Bhagwati reflects on more than two decades of collaborative music-making with musicians from diverse musical traditions. Through essays, conversations and accounts of artistic experiments, the book explores how musicians can create together without subordinating their different musical knowledge, practices and aesthetics to a single tradition. In the context of MNM's symposium Whose Musics?, this informal conversation raises questions about who defines musical modernity, how traditions encounter and transform one another, and what a genuinely plural musical future might sound like.

BIO(S):

Sandeep Bhagwati is full professor at the School of Performance at Concordia University, a composer, theatre maker, ensemble leader, researcher and poet with an international career, and a former Canada Research Chair on Inter-X Art.

Meghan Gilhespy is assistant professor at the School of Performance at Concordia University an experimental vocalist and jazz scholar specializing in feminist jazz historiography. Her research explores the cultural politics of experimental jazz singing.

Julie Burelle is chair of the School of Performance at Concordia University and a theatre and performance studies scholar with a focus on settler coloniality and Indigenous performance practices.

Kristian North is an electroacoustic composer and researcher. He is an INDI PhD student at Concordia University working on haptic aurality.

Jonathan Goldman is a musicology professor at Université de Montréal. His research focuses on the art musics of the post-war avantgarde.

Daniel Villegas Velez is a philosopher and musicologist teaching at University of Ottawa. He has written on mimesis, coloniality, Western music aesthetics, and timbre 

Robert Hasegawa is a musicology professor at McGill University who has worked on spectral music and orchestration and the analysis of contemporary art music.