INDETERMINACY: IDEAS, STORIES, EXPERIENCES
Date & Time: 26 November 2022, 10:00-17:00
Venue: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Chennai
All are welcome
Indeterminacy is a composing approach in which some aspects of a musical work are left open to chance or to the interpreter’s free choice. Also known as ‘chance music’, and populated by John Cage in the ’60s, its legacy is today widely used across art forms as a way to create multiple outcomes out of a singular proposition.
In this workshop led by American composer and pedagogue James Bunch, we’ll explore some of the theoretical as well as practical modalities of this genre of ‘making’.
Beginning with ‘sound transplant’, an impromptu cell-phone sound installation, moving through personal stories and experiences of conceptual art, the day will end with informal sharings of indeterminate works created and rehearsed by the workshop participants.
James Bunch is a composer, performer, conductor and concert organizer living and working in Chennai. He has been teaching composition at the KM Music Conservatory for 8 years. http://www.jimmibunch.com/
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