Faculty of Music
University of Oxford
Masters Composers and Performers Concert
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Free entry - registration required.
A celebration of collaboration - join us for this special event in which our students completing a Master's degree in Composition write music for their peers completing the same course in Performance.
The programme will include pieces written by eight MSt student composers, plus performances of other repertoire by our MSt student performers.
Programme:
Leoš Janáček In the Mists
James Sparkes Work/Clock
Philip Theodorou Flooding makes a Winters' Bog
Scott Wearing CASI
Moon Han If We are Meant to Meet Once More
Richard Meehan Saravande with Skip-needle Loops
Zosia Pilsworth Encounter
Hanna Gualandi Sirens
Paulo Bellinati Alba and Pau de Chuva from Suite Contatos
Christopher Butler-Cole CL☺︎UDBURST
<speaks> | Tomomi Adachi
Adachi will talk about his wide-ranging practice spanning music, poetry and visual art. Topics will include human voice, composition, improvisation, performance technique (and its absence), site-specific work, technology and artificial intelligence. The talk may also include a short performance designed for the online format.
Phantom Melodies and Tangerine Trees: A voyage through the psychedelic musical experience
Using musical illusions, perceptual experiments and examples from The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Tchaikovsky, Steve Reich and beyond, Prof. Milton Mermikides explores how music can evoke altered perceptions of time and self, the blending of senses and moments of transcendence, and why music relies on the very same perceptual mechanisms for its extraordinary power.