SIMM-podcast #20

12/23/24 • 66 min

During this episode of the SIMM-podcast we focus on the role composers may play within participatory social and community music projects. You will during this episode hear 3 composers, who have different perspectives and ideas about the questions we ask them. They are practitioners within social music projects, as well as scholars developing research on this practice: Cathy Milliken from Australia (1:14->32:34), Michal Kawecki from Poland (32:37->51:28), and Fiona Evison from Canada (51:30->1:01). This is again a somewhat longer episode, of about an hour, but we think it makes sense to take the time to listen to the details Cathy, Michal and Fiona share with us about their practice and their research in this field.
Cathy Milliken will be one of the facilitators of the 2nd SIMM research seminar on the role of composers in social and community music projects, organised from 9 to 11 May 2025 at the MusikFabrik in Cologne. Deadline for applications is 31st December 2024 (see call here).
Referenced during this podcast-episode: Claire Bishop ('Participation'), Peter Brook, John Cage, Rebecca Cohen, Creative Minds in Song, Guildhall School, Mind Foundation UK, My Child Fell (Isobel Lane & Michal Kawecki), Gavin Roberts, Song in the City, Thomas Turino ('Music as Social Life - The Politics of Participation'),
During this episode music is shortly heard from Steve Reich's 'Drumming' (played by the Ictus Ensemble), as well as rehearsal recordings of the Kinshasa based traditional drummers ensemble Beta Mbonda.
Click 'follow' so you do not miss future episodes.
Contact: [email protected] / www.simm-platform.eu

Previous Episode

SIMM-podcast #19

During the 19th SIMM-podcast episode we assist to a conversation between biologist Olivier Hamant (Institut Michel Serre) and musician Jean-Luc Plouvier (Ictus Ensemble) on ideas and experiences they share with each other from their work on the natural world and the world of music-making. SIMM-founder Lukas Pairon interviews them.
Referenced during this podcast-episode: Philippe Boesmans, John Cage, "Un homme ça s'empêche" (Albert Camus), eco-anxiety, free jazz, Philip Glass, Glenn Gould, Goodhart's law, Olivier Hamant's 'Antidote to the cult of performance', Olivier Hamant's 'De l'incohérence - philosophie politique de la robustesse', Olivier Hamant's 'La troisième voix du vivant', Ictus Ensemble, Steve Reich's 'Music for 18 Musicians', Ircam, robustness, serendipity, Michel Serre Institut, Reich's psychoacoustic by-products of repetition and phase-shifting, Simon Sinek's conference on 'The Infinite Game', systems thinking, Gertrude Stein, stochastic processes in biology
The transcription of this episode can be found here.
And during this episode music is shortly heard from Steve Reich's 'Music for 18 Musicians' (played by the Steve Reich Ensemble), as well as rehearsal recordings of the Kinshasa based traditional drummers ensemble Beta Mbonda.
Click 'follow' so you do not miss future episodes.
Contact: [email protected] / www.simm-platform.eu