【Artistic practice research in the academy.
How to turn art into research】
主講人: Kim Cunio
日期:2018年11月02日(五)
時間:10:30~12:10
地點:北藝大音樂二館M2306
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Dr Kim Cunio
DCA,
(composition), University of Western Sydney, M Mus, (composition) University of
Newcastle, B Mus (composition and voice), University of Newcastle, B
Communications UTS
Senior Lecturer in
composition and convenor of musicology
ANU College of
Arts and Social Sciences
T: +61-2-6125-5770
Areas of expertise
- Music Composition
- Music Performance
- Musicology And Ethnomusicology
Music composition,
traditional music, new directions in screen music practice.
Dr Kim Cunio has
studied with a number of Australia's finest musicians including Australian
composer Nigel Butterly, conductor and producer Eric Clapham, and Jazz guitar
legend Ike Isaacs. Kim is an accomplished researching composer and performer
and was awarded an ABC Golden Manuscript Award in recognition of his work with
traditional music. Kim can write in many mediums from full scoring for opera or
music theatre, orchestra, traditional ensembles, or in modern contexts using
sound design and samples. Kim has also provided music for many installations
and outdoor events including working to picture and live visuals with large
ensembles and choirs. Many of Kim’s commissions have a serious research
component, where he combines anthropological work with transcription. Kim takes
the position of being a participant observer in such work; and is part of an
international push to preserve the dying art of Eastern Jewish (mizrachi)
music.
Kim’s music has
been played around the world including performances at the Whitehouse, United
Nations NGO’s, and festivals in a number of countries, and his list of
commissioning organizations is significant, including the Olympics, The Art
Gallery of NSW, The National Gallery of Victoria, The Melbourne International
Arts Festival, The Foundation for Universal Sacred Music (USA), and many
others. A number of Kim’s projects have been funded by the Australia Council
for the Arts, and his touring has been funded by the Commonwealth Government.
Kim is published by the ABC, records with New World Music and lectures in
composition at the Australian National University.
Some of Kim's
recent commissions and projects include, Beyond Karma with the Gyuto Monks of
Tibet, Ishq, music for Khalili collection of Islamic Art at the Art Gallery
of NSW; working with researcher Genevieve Campbell on her led project of music
of the TIWI Islands; Songs to RA, music for the Egyptian Antiquities
exhibition from the Louvre; Mandala for Dawn, an orchestral and choir work
commissioned and performed in New York, The Thread of Life, a live recording of
an international ensemble in New York for US release; The Temple Project, a
realization process setting ancient Psalms and Biblical texts to Baghdadian
Jewish chant on replica instruments; The Sacred Fire, an ABC commission to
reconstitute the music of the first woman composer Hildegard of Bingen;
Tomorrow's Islam, a commission to write music reflective of contemporary,
modernist Islamic thinkers; and Buddha Realms, a response to the diversity of
Buddhist music, written as a response to transcriptions of
Buddhist players and singers. Kim has also written a significant body of
music for television and screen in this period, principally for the ABC, which
has seen him nominated for two Guild of Screen Composers Awards. Many of these
projects include collaborations, particularly with soprano Heather Lee who has
one of the finest high voices of Australia, and their work together combines
classical methodology, traditional performance practice, new composition and
wild improvisation.
Other noteworthy
projects include Rising, a new opera which recently toured QLD, a planned
recording of the landmark 13th Century collection, the Cantigas de
Santa Maria, producing soprano Heather Lee and the Statny Komorny orchestra,
producing composer Yitzhak Yedid’s music for Challenge Records Germany, three
discs with the visionary writer Stephanie Dowrick, CDs with Canadian clarinet
virtuoso Francois Houle, a commissioned sertting of the stories of assylum
seekers in Australia and a new work for The Song Company. Between this Kim is
building towards an international project based on the precepts of field
recording and acoustic ecology. In the field of technology Kim has beern making
a number of sample libraries with Evolution Series, and an upcoming work titled
the extended violin is planned with Grame Jennings.
Kim also works in
the Indian subcontinent. His work there include sThe Kalpa, a long instrumental
work with eminent Carnatic flautist Dr Natesan Ramani; Garden and Cosmos,
the Art Gallery of NSW and the Maharaja of Jodhpur’s sacred art
collection; Oneness, an international commission on the life of Swami
Vivekananda premiered at the Opera House and a project to set Sri Aurobindo’s
epic poem Savitri to early Christian chant. A project close to Kim’s
heart is The Vanishing, which is concerned with the practice of
female feticide in India. The project has seen a multi channel installation
prepared for Australia, the US and India, which combines field recordings with
fictionalised stories based on ethnographic research in the field, written by
Dr Manisha Sharma. Kim is also involved in a major project to document and
write music with the Gyuto Monks of Tibet, with 2 releases in 2015-16, and a
multi disc set to capture traditional practices that Kim is hoping to combine
with a scholarly musicological book. In mid 2016 Kim presented a first work for
string orchestra and the Gyuto Monks at the Tyalgum festival in NSW. Future
invitations include the Pushkar Sacred Music Festival and the Jaipur Writers
Festival.
