Tour | 12pm | St Cecilia’s Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Opera Experiment<\/a><\/strong> Final concert: Plus-Minus Ensemble<\/a><\/strong> Tour | 12pm | St Cecilia’s Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your place (free) here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This tour explores the galleries at St Cecilia\u2019s Hall focussing on the significance of water, from transporting materials by boat to using parts of marine animals in the construction and decoration of instruments. Led by Dr Jenny Nex<\/a>, Curator of the Musical Instrument Collection<\/a> and Lecturer in Musical Instruments at the Reid School of Music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Concert | 4pm | Reid Concert Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your ticket (free) here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jessica Leary (soprano) Students studying creative writing (School of Languages, Literatures and Culture) and students studying composition (Edinburgh College of Art) will meet one another for the first time on the Monday morning of the Week of Sound. They will work together to create a series of brand new short Operas, mentored through the process by Jane McKie and Gareth Williams. From first ideas and sketches, into the rehearsal and workshop process, through to live performances by Friday afternoon, the entire opera writing process is distilled into five short days. Come hear the results of this experiment on Friday at 4pm in the Reid Concert Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concert | 7pm | West Court<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your ticket (free) here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Plus-Minus brings to life Martin Parker\u2019s mirror-shift<\/em>, a new work which corrals a host of AI music creation, development and performance tools together and drags them through the wringer of contemporary experimental music. The piece explores the sonic identities that form when we shift the AI mirror from reflecting us head-on, to glancing side-long across our rapidly developing landscape of human-computer entanglements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The remainder of the concert features two works that each do arranging in a different way. Like the many chamber versions of orchestral works made for Schoenberg\u2019s Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna from 1918, we include Mark Knoop\u2019s intimate arrangement of Laurence Crane\u2019s orchestral piece Cobbled Section After Cobbled Section<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The concert concludes with the premiere of American composer Aaron Wyanski\u2019s arrangement of Arnold Schoenberg\u2019s Variations for Orchestra<\/em>, the latest instalment in his Schoenberg in Hi-Fi<\/em> series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘Schoenberg in Hi-Fi is an ongoing series of albums that posit an alternate reality. In my speculative universe, Schoenberg lives a little longer \u2014 into the late 1950s: a time when a new commodity was reshaping the music industry, the stereo LP. As high-fidelity audio entered the homes of more and more middle-class Americans, record companies began producing and marketing albums around how unique the sounds on it were, whether that was in the exotica of Lex Baxter, the space music of Sun Ra, or the extreme eclecticism of Esquivel. Though mostly aimed at a wide popular audience, countless liner notes spun infinite variations of the same boast: you\u2019ve never heard this before. Schoenberg had been living in Los Angeles for many years, and had he been alive when the Capitol Records building was completed in 1956, he would have been a stone\u2019s throw away from one of the centres of mid-century pop music. What if an executive from Capitol had become taken with the idea of presenting Schoenberg\u2019s works in the manner of the many \u201cjazzing up the classics\u201d albums produced in this period?’ \u2014 Aaron Wyanski<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Martin Parker’s piece has been supported by the Bridging Making waves Waves at St Cecilia\u2019s Hall, Tour 2: The importance of water, watery environments and their inhabitants for musical instrumentsTour | 12pm | St Cecilia’s Hall The Opera ExperimentConcert | 4pm | Reid Concert Hall Final concert: Plus-Minus EnsembleConcert | 7pm | West Court Waves at St Cecilia\u2019s Hall, Tour 2: The importance of … Continue reading Friday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/608\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Concert | 4pm | Reid Concert Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Concert | 7pm | West Court<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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