Redgate, Roger. 2021. 'Beyond the Text: Capturing the Reality of the Image'. In: Technique of Musical Сomposition: Нistorical Avatars Analytical Musicology. Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, Russian Federation 13–15 April 2021. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Throughout musical history composers have responded to extra musical influences, whether the setting of texts, responses to paintings, religion or political situations. On occasion the structure of a poem such as Haiku or iambic pentameter has directly influenced the structure of the music. However, the nature of this relationship is often some kind of close representation or emotional response.

My own work as a composer has been similarly informed by a wide range of extra musical sources; the work of author/poets Samuel Beckett and Paul Celan, painters Francis Bacon and Gerhard Richter, or the theories of the philosopher Jacques Derrida among others; and further, the notion of artistic resistance from a political point of view in relation to the work of the poet Alina Vitukhnovskaya or the writings of playwrights Edward Bond and Peter Weiss. What might be the meaningful links between music, poetry, painting, philosophy and politics, beyond more direct forms of expression, such as text setting, narrative, or figurative painting? How might issues of language problematize such creative discourses and by connecting border areas of representation access new modes of expression and meaning? Further, how might such issues relate to composition, in terms of what lies beyond the text, and the concept of material? This paper will address such issues in relation to my own work as a composer and how such interconnections have informed my practice.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Music
Dates:	Date Event 8 March 2021 Accepted 14 April 2021 Completed
Event Location:	Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, Russian Federation
Date range:	13–15 April 2021
Item ID:	36002
Date Deposited:	17 Apr 2024 10:36
Last Modified:	17 Apr 2024 10:36
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36002

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