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Aesthetic transfer in live performance: singing in duet with the audience's voice
When: Saturday 2nd June 2012 - 1.15pm - 2pm
Where: Weston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff CF10 5AL
Why attend a “live” musical performance when you could stay at home and listen to a recording? Certainly, the experience of a live concert performance feels uniquely expressive to audiences, but is it? And if so, why? Free public lecture.
Why attend a “live” musical performance when you could stay at home and listen to a recording? Certainly, the experience of a live concert performance feels uniquely expressive to audiences, but is it? And if so, why? “Liveness” is a quality that we all recognise, and it is the platform on which all performing musicians regularly ply their trade, and yet it is little understood. What is more, performers regularly report “responding” in performance to their audience, but little is known about what creative, physical or technical mechanism, if any, facilitates this musical exchange. This lecture recital will explore these questions through a series of experimental song performances designed to demonstrate the character and quality of liveness, and to show why and how liveness may facilitate the creative exchange of musical content between performers and audiences.
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Speaker:
Canadian/British singer Kathryn Whitney began her studies at the Victoria Conservatory of Music and, in addition to study in New York with Cornelius Reid, went on to complete music degrees from the universities of Toronto (BA) and Oxford (MPhil and DPhil), and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London (PGDip Performance), where her principal teachers were Dame Emma Kirkby and Susan McCulloch. An experienced soloist, she has performed in concert, opera and recital across Canada and Europe, and regularly collaborates with composers both in the UK and abroad (she's given over 40 world premières, most of works written for her voice). Her work has won awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Arts Council of England, and the British Columbia Arts Council, among others, and she was Artist in Residence at Oxford University (2002-2005) and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (2009-2011). A researcher as well as performer, Kathryn is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Musical Research in the School of Advanced Study, London, where she directs the SongArt Performance Research Group.