A four-day festival of concerts, conversations, performances, film premieres, a lego workshop and a dinner party. Hosted by the IAS and the European Institute.
The festival听celebrated this year's听Music Futures听activities, dedicated to thinking, writing and performing music -听jointly hosted by the UCL European Institute and the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, with support from UCL Grand Challenges. It was a chance to learn about this听year's projects,听hear some live music and听socialise with likeminded people.
A conversation-recital around selected English art songs, exploring their agency as cultural memory with soprano Harriet Burns, pianist Ian Tindale, music historian Professor Daniel Grimley and Nordic scholar听Annika Lindskog. 17 June 2022, 11:00am-1:00pm
Come see the听working environment of PEARL, UCL's new听Person-Environment-Activity Research Lab,听in Dagenham 鈥� we'll walk you through its malleable laboratory. 20听June 2022, 10:30am-12:00pm
We welcome the editors Axel K枚rner and Paulo M. K眉hl for the launch of their new book. Respondents: Professor Susan Rutherford (Cambridge), and Professor Roger Parker (KCL). 20听June 2022, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Conversation & premiere of a听short film about directing, performing and seeing the opera "The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko". With director Stephen Medcalf, mezzo soprano Olivia Ray, writer-journalist Owen Matthews, anthropologist Michal Murawski, Russian politics expert Ben Noble, and filmmaker Graham Riach.听21听June 2022, 10:00am-11:00am
Musical performances around the Bloomsbury campus and neighbouring outdoor spaces. Book your own personal concert on campus! 21听June 2022, 12:00pm-6:00pm
Utilising the medium of sound/music through the process of sonification, we transform data into sound, developing a DJ set of the dataset. 22听June 2022, 4:00pm-8:00pm
Talks, rare-book display and music performances exploring the social history of outdoor music performance in spaces local to UCL. Postponed (new date TBC)
This conversation听is one of two听linked events exploring music, identity and memory in Proust鈥檚 great novel, In Search of Lost Time. Combine with the CONCERT in the evening! 23 June 2022, 2:00pm-4:00pm
A Sound Art Performance, by Jason Singh with Liz Hanks, followed by a brief discussion.听Postponed until the autumn (date t.b.c)
Image credit: 'a few centimetres in the midst of this superhuman multitude鈥�, coarse figurine on the Porch of the Booksellers, Rouen Cathedral, photo by Thomas Stern
Concert featuring music inspired by 'In Search of Lost Time' and the music of the salons of the time, and a new composition by Alex Hills.听Linked to听the CONVERSATION听2pm-4pm. 23 June 2022, 7:00pm-8:30pm
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Singing Cultural Memories of Places and Spaces | IN PERSON
Visit to PEARL | IN PERSON
Playing with Purpose 鈥� instruments for (more than) music | HYBRID听
Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective | HYBRID听
Singing Truth to Power: Politics, Opera, and the Russian State | NOW ONLINE
PERFORMANCES:听Re-imagining the Musical Bandstand | IN PERSON
What Constitutes Music?
Josephine Morcashani: Playing with Gender and Race in Music across Europe听| CANCELLED
UCL Anthrobeats 鈥� Data Dance: The Sound of Space and Mobility | IN PERSON
CONVERSATION -听The Vinteuil Centenary: Music, Memory and Repetition in Proust | IN PERSON
POSTPONED: The Conference of the Birds
Ukrainian-themed Closing Buffet | IN PERSON