Week 9

Music and Media

Simon Steen-Andersen, Jennifer Walshe and Stefan Prins


Stephan Drees, “«Expanded music»: the technological extension of body and instrument in Simon Steen-Andersen’s Piano Concerto (2013/14),”, Writing, Technology, Composers 1973–1983: Nuove Musiche No. 5, ed. Giacomo Albert and Andrea Valle (2020): 97-119.

 

Iga Batog, "Black Box Music by Simon Steen-Andersen: The Visual Layer as a Sound-Determining Factor," Muzykologów UJ, 46/3 (2020).

 

Jennifer Walshe, "The New Discipline: An Artistic Manifesto."

Fabian Czolbe, “Staging Technology - Composing with and within Digital Everyday Life,”, Writing, Technology, Composers 1973–1983: Nuove Musiche No. 5, ed. Giacomo Albert and Andrea Valle (2020): 143-163.

Jennifer Walshe on Opera, Music Theater, and Collaboration: Interview by Elaine Fitz Gibbon, Opera Quarterly 39/3-4: 198–205.

 

 

Music

Simon Steen-Andersen

Piano Concerto, performed by Nicolas Hodges, Andre de Ridder and Helsinki Symphony Orchestra, 2021.

Black Box Music (2012) Avanti!

RunTime Error (2009-2022) ( Festival Musica Strasbourg

Double Up for orchestra and sampler (2010),

Double Up score video.

TRIO SWR Donaueschinger Musiktage 2019 London Sinfonietta

 

Jennifer Walshe

JAll the Many Peopls (2011), for solo voice, DVD and electronics.

The Total Mountain (2014), for voice and film with sound.

Volunteer Chorus (2015).

Everything is Important (2016), or voice, string quartet and film (with sound).

 

Stefan Prins, Generation Kill (2012), Nadar Ensemble.

 

Scores

Steen-Andersen, Piano Concerto

Steen-Andersen, Black Box Music

 

Jennifer Walshe, The Total Mountain (2014), synopsis.

 

Stefan Prins, "Hybrid Bodies in Hybrid Spaces. A Composition Portfolio," Harvard dissertation

 

Additional Reading/Watching

Lasse Laursen, "Orchestration Strategies in Simon Steen-Andersen’s Double Up," Music Theory Online, 22/3 (2016).

Porträtfilm Simon Steen-Andersen in German.

Steen-Andersen in his workshop.

Anne Holzmüller, "The politics of poetry : piano hero (2011/2017) by Stefan Prins," Nuove Musiche 5, 2018 (contact me for copy)