Thanks to all who attended my lecture at the Environmental Utterance Conference this weekend and for your interesting thoughts and insights. It's really great get positive feedback and new inspirations!
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I will give a lecture at the University College Falmouth “ENVIRONMENTAL UTTERANCE” conference on 1st September 2012 . The lecture will focus on my current research topic: Music As an Activist Movement. Below is a short introduction to my talk. I hope to see you there!
The diverse creativity and expressions of political music seems to cross various genres and modes throughout history. From a Ram's horn and trumpets that were used to assemble people and raise spirits, to women's lamentations of their husbands and sons that went away to war, music seem to always be a function or an outcome tool. However, music seems to gain another degree when it became a servant of political activism as in Stabler’s LUFTSPIEGELUNGEN – Ein Spiel für Sieben and Finnissy’s English Country Tunes.
My proposed paper intends to present a significant part of my PhD project which discusses the history of political music of contemporary composers around the world (Luigi Nono, Hans Werner Henze, Richard Barrett).
My research contains an aesthetical and geographical framework: my experience of the political landscape of Israel. The music composed for the research, primarily aims to influence political movements in Israel by using music and other collaborative art forms as a reaction to a current political event. All the compositions are aimed for a live performance in an unusual performance space around Israel partially in order to subvert the censorship of the Israeli regime.