Event overview
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With Pianist Kate Ryder
Composer Cindy Cox will talk about her recent work and collaboration with pianist Kate Ryder - including the first performance of Harmonics featuring the innovative keyboard-scanning device the PNOscan.
Transparent yet complex, both radical and traditional, Cindy Cox’s compositions synthesize old and new musical designs through linked strands of association, timbral fluctuation, and cyclic temporal processes. The natural world, ecological processes, and the concept of emergence inspire many of the special harmonies and textural colorations in her compositions.
Cox is active as a pianist and has performed and recorded many of her own compositions. A number of her compositions feature technologies developed at UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). Her works with text such as Singing the lines, The Other Side of the World, and The Shape of the Shell evolved through collaboration with her husband, poet John Campion. They are currently collaborating on an opera project, The Popol Vuh, about the ancient Mayan myth of creation.
She has received awards and commissions from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Guggenheim Foundation, the American Composers Forum, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, the Mellon Foundation, and the Gemeinschaft der Kunstlerinnen und Kunstfreunde International Competition for Women Composers. She has been a Fellow at the Tanglewood and Aspen Festivals, the MacDowell Colony, and the Civitella Ranieri and William Walton Foundations in Italy.
Recent performances have taken place at the Venice Biennale, the Festival de la Habana in Cuba, the American Academy in Rome, Carnegie and Merkin Halls in New York City, the National Gallery in Washington, the Library of Congress , the Kennedy Center, and the Biblioteca National in Buenos Aires. Her music has been performed by the Kronos Quartet, the National Symphony, the California Symphony, the Alexander Quartet, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and the Eco Ensemble. There are five monograph recordings of Cox’s music, and her scores are published by World a Tuning Fork Press (http://www.cacox.com).
Her music may also be accessed on https://soundcloud.com/cindy-cox. Cindy Cox is presently a professor and recent chair of the music department at the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently living in the Netherlands on a Fulbright Senior Professorship in American Culture, hosted by the Amsterdam and Utrecht Conservatories of Music.
Dates & times
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| 5 Dec 2017 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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