TEXTMUSICTEXTMUSIC SYMPOSIUM

The Birkbeck Poetics Centre will be holding a Symposium on Text and Music in their multiple relationships, both in theory and in poetic and musical practice, with special emphasis on collaboration as a process. Apart from offering a forum for papers, videos and performances, the event will give an opportunity for people working with text and music to meet.

Day and time:
Saturday 23rd May, 2009
10.00 am – 6.15 pm - Symposium:  £20 and £10 concessions
7.00 pm – 11.00 pm - Performances: £10 and £5 concessions

Conference Committee: Sean Bonney, Stephen Mooney, William Rowe, Carol Watts

Symposium Programme: 10.00 am – 6.15 pm
At Birkbeck College, Malet St. Main  Building, Council Room
(The Main Building is accessible from Torrington Square or from Russell Square, walk past SOAS and turn right. Russell Square, Euston Square, Euston, or Goodge St Tube)

10.00 – 11.30       3 Papers.
Richard Baker, composer and Professor of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama will talk about his collaborations with the poet Lavinia Greenlaw.
Will Montgomery, 'In Fatal Winds: Frank O'Hara and Morton Feldman'.
Cathy Lane, ‘Using and abusing the text: some examples from recent works.’
Chair: Carol Watts

11.30 – 12.00      Coffee

12.00 – 1.45        Plenary papers

Steve Dickison, Director, Poetry Centre, San Francisco State University:
‘”Circulations of the song”: Word and music “shall correspond and beat in one harmony”’.

David Grubbs, Guitarist, Vocalist, and Pianist, Assistant Professor of Radio and Sound Art at Brooklyn College, City University of New York:
David Grubbs will speak on his collaboration with Susan Howe.
James Saunders and John Lely (University of Bath):
‘Prose or Verbal Scores’

Chair: Will Rowe

1.45 – 3.00          Lunch

3.00 – 4.00         
James Saunders and John Lely (Bath Spa University), ‘Prose or Verbal Scores’.
Chair: Harry Gilonis

4.00 – 5.00         2 Papers.
Frances Kruk, ‘Betrayal, Pugilism, and the Maligned Sound of the Cuckoo: A text/music Spin.
Ed Nesbit: ‘The Voice as Instrument: considering the semantics of text as an element of musical discourse’
Chair: Stephen Mooney

5.00 – 5.30         Coffee

5.30 – 6.15         Ken Edwards with Harry Gilonis, Elizabeth James and Carol Watts: multivoice performance of ‘The Glory Boxes’.

Performance Programme
Venue: The London Horse Hospital:  7.00 pm – 11.00 pm

David Grubbs
Steve Dickison and Bill Dietz
Maggie O’Sullivan and Edel O’Sullivan
Lawrence Upton and John Drever
Geraldine Monk and Martin Archer
Steve Willey and Ed Nesbit
Frances Kruk and Sean Bonney

Performances will be archived by Openned