CMA 588T Seminar in Performance
Seminar in Performance - Confronting the Planetary Crisis Through Music How can musical artists articulate a vision of hope that leads to action? This seminar explores connections between listening, art-making and activism. Bridging artistry with action, students will apply their musical skills to confront urgent concerns in our communities and environment. We will experiment with listening practices pioneered by Pauline Oliveros, R. Murray Schafer and Hildegard Westerkamp and consider the work of cross-genre grassroots groups that are creating interdisciplinary, transformative and transgressive art. We will examine work by artists who have challenged the status quo such as Nina Simone, Pete Seeger, Bernice Reagan, John Luther Adams and Emily Doolittle. Engaging with contemporary work in the field and challenging conventional ideologies, students will consider how artists can create resilience through movements of change. Students will experiment with practices that grapple with with the planetary crisis through the process of making sound as they apply concepts to their own composition and improvisation. This course is a place to discover how you as an artist can participate in movements for change. These practices are about paying attention, listening to the world and responding because you are an musician. Music creates a teachable moment and the audience has come to listen. What do you have to say?
Cross Listed Courses
JS 588T