Event overview
Ian Stonehouse explores the work of the late Austrian-Danish visual artist, performer and composer Lily Greenham.
Ian Stonehouse, Lecturer in Music at Goldsmiths, explores the work of the late Austrian-Danish visual artist, performer and composer Lily Greenham, who invented the term ‘Lingual Music’ to describe her voice-based electroacoustic experiments.
Lily Greenham (1924-2001) was an Austrian-born, Danish visual artist, writer, composer and leading proponent of sound and concrete poetry. Her Op Art works were shown in major exhibitions, notably the The Responsive Eye in 1965 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the 35th Venice Biennale in 1970. She invented the term Lingual Music in 1973 to describe her electroacoustic experiments, layering and processing recordings of her own voice. Her most well-known sound works were Relativity (1974), which was recorded at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and Traffic (1975), which was recorded in the Electronic Music Studios at Goldsmiths. Greenham was well-known throughout Europe in the 1970s for her radio appearances and performances of concrete poetry by the likes of Alain Arias-Misson, Elena Asins, Bob Cobbing and Ernst Jandl. In 1972, composer and radio-broadcaster Charles Amirkhanian described her as “one of the world’s leading performers of sound poetry”. She collaborated and toured with numerous artists and musicians, including saxophonist John Tchicai, the Bob Downes Open Music Trio, Hugh Davies, and Peter Cusack. During her lifetime she resided in Vienna, Copenhagen, Paris, Madrid, Lisbon & London and she was fluent in at least six languages. The complex and mobile nature of Greenham’s creative energies, seen alongside her own extraordinary early life and identity, exemplify “the experience of exile, multilingualism, and transnationalism that came to the fore in several ways during the last century” (Jesper Olson, 2012).
The Music Research Series invites researchers from across the country, and from within the department, to present and discuss their work.
The Series is a space for the development of cutting-edge research in music, and for the training of postgraduate and Early Career Researchers from Goldsmiths and elsewhere.
The sessions bring together scholars, practitioners, and people working in music outside the university. They may include formal papers, panel discussions, conversations, or any other format that suits the research.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 19 Oct 2023 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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