New Materialisms in Music and Sound – UT Austin Graduate Music Conference
Apr 17 – 18, 2021
Keynote Speaker: Ana María Ochoa Gautier (Columbia University)
Artist in Residence: Tanya Kalmanovitch (The New School and New England Conservatory)
Guest Performer: João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga
Increasingly, work in musicology and ethnomusicology has engaged more critically with material and embodied understandings of music. Studies in this body of work have developed new approaches to understanding musical instruments, to the human body as a musicking agent, to music as understood through embodied movement, and to music as a material technology. Far from simply abandoning or rejecting the linguistic turn, we are interested in approaches that intertwine the discursive and material registers in seeking to understand what music or sound do, rather than what they mean.
Less Than <10 - RESCHEDULED from April 8
Apr 15, 2021
Rainwater Innovation Grant Project
Electronic Assembly: Music of George Lewis and Jason Thorpe Buchanan
An enthralling experience of electronic music. Alongside prominent performing artists Chelsea De Souza and Shanon Vandurza, Less Than <10 will be performing Anthem by award-winning composer George Lewis. Core percussionist Jordan Walsh will be performing El Trompo by Gabriela Ortiz, a Grammy-nominated composer and leading educator. The Less Than <10 ensemble will also be joined by prolific performers Celeste Markey, Eden Garza, and Titilayo Ayangade for all-forgetting-is-retrieval by Jason Thorpe Buchanan, leading composer and artistic director of Switch~ Ensemble.
The Turn of the Screw
Apr 13 – 16, 2021
A rebroadcast of the Butler Opera Center's thrilling 2020 performance of Britten's famous opera.
Miró Quartet
Apr 6 – 9, 2021
A streamed performance of Schubert's Death and the Maiden and Kevin Puts' Home.
Small Batch Series: New Music Co-op
Mar 23 – 27, 2021
Featuring composer-performers Andrew Stoltz, Travis Weller & Brent Fariss
Less Than <10
Feb 25, 2021
Arcade: Music from Video Games
Colorful, contemporary arrangements of popular video game music from Square Enix and Nintendo will be performed by the Less Than <10 team, as well as the premiere of a new work by percussionist and composer Jordan Walsh. The core group will be performing its own rendition of Jason Trueting’s “September.”
