Breaking the Sound Barrier –
New Paths in Extended Techniques
A One-day Symposium and Concert
Middlesex University
23 June 2015
09:00 – 20:30
Free and open to the public
Booking essential via Eventbrite:
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/breaking-the-sound-barrier-new-paths-in-extended-techniques-symposium-and-concert-tickets-17224035554
9.00 – 9.20: Registration
9.20 – 9.30: Welcome by Professor Benjamin Dwyer
9.30 – 11.00: Session 1 (Chair: Dr. Brian Inglis)
Benjamin Dwyer (guitar, MDX): ‘El Tiento – A Contemporary Stylus Phantasticus?’
Luk Vaes (Orpheus Institute): ‘The Fine Art of Improper Piano Playing’
Nick Roth (saxophone): ‘Alexander's Trick – Radial Extension of Saxophone Technique’
11.15 – 12.45: Session 2 (Chair: Luk Vaes)
Simon Limbrick (percussion, MDX): ‘Choreographing with Sound’
Garth Knox (viola, MDX) & Diamanda Dramm (violin, Royal Conservatory in The Hague):‘Stretching the String’
Richard Craig (flute, MDX): ‘Theme and Variations on Impossibility: Extended Techniques, et Moi’
14.00 – 15.30: Session 3 (Chair: Simon Limbrick)
Brian Inglis (MDX): ‘'The Liminal Zone of Opera: The Song of Margery Kempe and the Genre of (a cappella) Monodrama'
Lucas Niggli (percussion, University of Arts Zürich): ‘The Prepared Drum’
Jonathan Impett (trumpet, MDX & Orpheus Institute, Ghent): The Trumpet: Post-religion, Post-heroic, Post-colonial, Post-human?
19.00 – 20.30: Concert
featuring special guest performances by: Lucas Niggli (percussion), Diamanda Dramm (violin) and Nick Roth (saxophone) and Middlesex University Staff and Doctoral Candidates Simon Limbrick (percussion), Jonathan Impett (trumpet), Benjamin Dwyer (guitar), Garth Knox (viola) and Richard
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