Activity: Talk, presentation or media contribution › Invited talk
Description
In this talk Will Montgomery explored the rich history of text-sound interaction in radical C20 and C21 soundworks, with a particular focus on poetic constellations of text and on the cross-talk between score and poem. He addressed the emergence of the text score in the work of John Cage and New School alumnae associated with Fluxus in the late 1950s and early 1960s; the confluence of post-Cagean performance, scores and poetry in the work of the Wandelweiser collective in the late 2000s and early 2010s; field recording as a facet of composition; the erosion of the performer/ audience distinction in some realisations of text scores; the long-running collaboration between US poet Susan Howe and musician David Grubbs; walking and scores; and recent work by Matana Roberts, Moor Mother and Redell Olsen.