Location and Memory in my Creative Process

• Music Colloquium series 2017-2018

Speaker: Hans Tutschku (Harvard University)

Venue: The Dome, Bramall Music Building (3rd Floor)

All Students and Staff are welcome to attend. Attendance is required for all MA Music Students.

Abstract

My electroacoustic compositions over the past 30 years have experimented with many different mindsets, toolkits, and presentation forms; ranging from analog synthesizers and tape machines to high-channel Wavefield-Synthesis systems; from improvisation to evening-length scored works; from computer-programming to gesture-controlled live-electronics. In their variety, most of them are based on recorded sounds and share a common quest to work with memory. The talk will detail my thinking about sonic elements taken from their natural context and placed/shaped into a new, composed meaning. Degrees of abstraction are used to guide and surprise the listener in a network of relations and imagined locations.