Congratulations Dr. Penton!

We are very pleased to announce that Misha Penton successfully completed her viva today. Congratulations Dr Penton! The online viva was an absolutely fascinating and engaging discussion. The work, titled Vocality as / in Composition: solo and collaborative creation of new postopera works, comprised a portfolio of two substantial new media monodramas and a site-specific postopera, along with a sequence of micro-operas interspersed amongst the text of the substantial commentary. The research focused on ‘compositional methods centred in an embodied vocal practice and the exploration of a multi-layered meaning-making process’, drawing on theory that included Jelena Novak, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Julia Kristeva, and Adriana Cavarero. It also proposed a practical application of versioning as a way to make multiple differently-presented framings of a work.

For more information on Misha’s work, have a look at her website.

You might be interested in …

Anton Lukoszevieze performance

Uncategorized

Here are videos of the two pieces by Amnon Wolman performed by Anton Lukoszevieze in the Michael Tippett Centre last week.

Read More

LAB3: David Pocknee, Andrew Hugill

Uncategorized

Wednesday 7 December, 12-4pm, CM131 The third lab considers the nature of scoring and its relationship with digital technologies. We welcome composer David Pocknee to talk about the grid, completeness, and divination, following a presentation and discussion led by Andrew Hugill on human and machine creativity and their impact on score paradigms. 12-2pm: Andrew Hugill […]

Read More

LAB 17: Laura Bowler, Harry Matthews, Alex Mah

Uncategorized

Wednesday 3 October, 12-4pm (CM.107) The first lab of the year features a visit from composer-performer Laura Bowler, who will talk about extremes and autobiography in her work. In the second half of the lab, Alex Mah and Harry Matthews report back from the KLANGRAUM and CAMP summer schools that they attended this year, and will […]

Read More

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *