A
talk and a workshop, realized in the context of the PEEK project “
Atlas (of Creative
Mechanisms): [Curating-Conducting]”, awarded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Monday,
17 April 18:00-19:30
Talk: Labyrinth as composition: multicursal processes and the composer’s body.
While
embodied music practices gain visibility as sites of intrinsic meaning-making, the composer’s body remains challenging to
locate in an sense of “natural” environment. Using peripheral architectural forms, composer David Chisholm, recently commenced
an exploration of ways in which we might locate the composer in such spaces. The respective spatial and temporal foregrounds
of Architecture and Music, their respective accuracy and impossibility are seen through the writing of Paul Riceour’s Time
and Narrative and Non-representational theories, in the early steps of Chisholm’s current research.
Tuesday,
18 April 10:00-12:30
Workshop: Framing listening
In two segregated working
groups, composer David Chisholm works with participants in a rough experiment around the impact of language and cultural memory
while introducing recent works and collaborations from projects in Australia, USA and India.
The groups are
brought together to locate and compare their individual and group aesthetic readings based on two different language information
feeds.
David Chisholm is a composer, researcher, educator, music curator
and producer. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, and since 2021 has been Head of School at School of Music,
University of Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand.
In 2018 he was a featured guest of the Encuentro
Internacional de Compositores in Santiago, Chile, He has undertaken artist residences at Camargo Foundation, Cassis, Centre
Intermondes, La Rochelle and HIAP, Helsinki. He was an inaugural recipient of the Victorian Government’s Creator Grants and
the recipient of an Australia Council Project Fellowship. Chisholm was an Associate Artist for Malthouse Theatre in 2014,
and as composer-in-residence for Phillip Adams’ BalletLab between 2006-2010, he was part of a company in residence programme
at EMPAC, New York. Works composed during these two appointments won him a total of six Green Room Awards. Chisholm’s
work has appeared at the 2023 World Pride Festival, Venice Biennale Web Pavilion, Villa Medici Roma, Edinburgh Festival, Moscow
Museum of Art, ISCM World New Concert music Days, MONA FOMA, Danscenen Copenhagen, Monaco Dance Forum, Australian Centre for
Photography and performed and recorded by San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Ensemble Vortex (CH), International Contemporary
Ensemble (USA), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Argonaut Ensemble (AUS) and Adelaide, Tasmanian and New Zealand Symphony
Orchestras. Chisholm was the founding artistic director and producer of Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music
(BIFEM) which ran seven annual articulations between 2013-2019 with global reach and impact including and APRA AMCOS award
and as finalist for a Classical” innovation award.
He is published by BabelScores in Paris.
