Royal Musical Association Study Day

Musical glocalities and their influence; Sound, geography, community

Friday 17 January, 12noon - 4.30pm, free

St Gregory’s Centre for Music, Canterbury

How do issues of geography and community impact on the practices of free improvisation and experimental music? What relationships exist between geographically diverse new music groups? How does the individual musician relate to the group, and how does the group relate to the wider new music community, if there is such a thing?

Representatives of the Wandelweiser collective, Free Range, Union Division and The Six Tones, together with Professor Matt Wright (Canterbury Christ Church University), Professor Ryan Dohoney (Northwestern University) and Maureen Wolloshin (UCA PhD candidate) will discuss and perform responses to these questions.

This practice-based study day will take place under the auspices of Canterbury’s award-winning Free Range series and the annual Wintersound Festival at Canterbury Christ Church University. The outcomes of our performances and discussions will be shared at Northwestern University, Illinois in 2025.

Programme

• 12.00 - Register at St. Gregory’s Church
• 12.30 - Introduction: Maureen Wolloshin and Matt Wright
• 12.45 - Sam Bailey (Free Range)
• 1.15 - Dr Ryan Dohoney (Northwestern University)
• 1.45 - Sophie Stone: New Work (world premiere)
• 2.15 - Coffee break
• 2.45 - Q+A
• 3.10 - Antoine Beuger (Wandelweiser collective)
• 3.30 - Sophie Stone with Maureen Wolloshin
• 3.50 - Nguyễn Thanh Thủy with Matt Wright
• 4.10 - Nguyễn Thanh Thủy: Performance
• 4.30 - finish

Daphne Oram Building: 5 - 7pm

• WinterSound Student Exhibition Launch (Daphne Oram Gallery)
• Launch of Magz Hall's immersive installation Wastelands: Walley’s Quarry, with music from Mieko Shimizu, supported by Screen South and ACE. (Room DO.0.02)

Followed by WinterSound Performances in Anselm Studio 1, 7 - 9.45pm. Separate booking is required for this.