PhD Defence and artistic work presentation of Siamak Anvari
You are cordially invited to the artistic presentation and public defence by Siamak Anvari of the research project 'Materialisation of Fixed Media Music’ on the 24th and 25th of June.
Siamak Anvari's dissertation examines the public presentation of fixed media electroacoustic music and investigates the performative capacities which are involved in materialising such music, in order to shed light on the question of what performing means in the context of fixed media music, which is prefabricated and presented through loudspeakers in a concert venue. While electroacoustic music production has been the main focus of academic work in this area in recent decades, less attention has been given to its public presentation. Through the process of composing a series of fixed media works and presenting them in various circumstances, Siamak Anvari formulates an understanding of the important elements involved in such process. This has resulted in the emergence of concepts and strategies which ground the composition within its performance context, so that the work comes to full existence only in the performance space. Such perspectives shift the focus from the (alleged) fixity of the medium towards the diversity and wealth of the listening experiences that it can engender.
This dissertation also includes an audiovisual part; complementary and of equal importance to the written component, by simultaneously expressing its central ideas and demonstrating them in the form of a multichannel fixed media work. The audiovisual component of this research will be presented in form of a screening/concert in the New Music Lab on the 6th floor of Amare.
Promotors
- Prof.dr. Richard Barrett
- Prof.dr. Marcel Cobussen
Co-promotor
- Frank Scheffer
Doctorate committee
- Prof.dr. Rachel Beckles Willson
- Prof.dr. Teresa Carrasco
- Dr. Paul Craenen
- Prof.dr. Cathy van Eck
- Prof.dr. Erik Viskil
Screening/Concert 24th of June @ 16:00
On the 24th of June at 16:00, Siamak Anvari will present the audiovisual component of his research in the New Music Lab in Amare – Spuiplein 150, The Hague.
Directions to the New Music Lab:
When you enter on the ground floor of Amare, proceed to the middle where the elevators are located. Press “6” for the sixth floor before you enter the elevator. Take the elevator up to the sixth floor (Institute of Sonology) and proceed through the glass doors directly into the New Music Lab which is straight ahead.
PhD Defence 25th of June @10:00
The defence will take place at the Academy Building, Leiden University, Rapenburg 73, Leiden or online via the Leiden Livestream. There's no need to register.
We are looking forward to welcoming you at the artistic presentation and public defence.
