invited lectures & paper presentations
SMT/AMS VANCOUVER Vancouver, British Columbia — 5 November 2016
“Creaking Chairs and Metric Clarity: Microtiming Glenn Gould Recording Schoenberg Op. 19/1”
2016 Conference of the Society for Music Theory
PERFORMANCE SCIENCE NETWORK CONFERENCE Bath, UK — 15 July 2016
“Bacchante: an analysis of a production of a performance of a composition based on a transcription of a recording”
Given with Simon Zagorski-Thomas, Neil Heyde, Andrew Bourbon & Amy Blier-Carruthers
In absentia: my talk given as pre-recorded audio with slides
Devoted to the composition, performance and recording of my recent solo work, Bacchante
THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS London, England — 2 June 2016
International Conference “The Transformation of Rhetoric in the 21st Century ”
Lecture: "The tenor, the vehicle, the naked base"
Alongside performance of two compositions from Digital Memory and the Archive by cellist Neil Heyde
Host: Alain Pottage, Professor, The London School of Economics
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Berkeley, California — 4 March 2016
Composition colloquium: "Ideas about Microtiming, with selections from the Études d'un prélude, The Artist and his Model, Ebenbild and Digital Memory and the Archive"
Host: Cindy Cox, Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley
HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, Massachusetts — 16 January 2016
“Creaking Chairs and Musical Form: Microtiming Glenn Gould playing Schoenberg Op. 19/1”
2016 Meeting of the Northeast Music Cognition Group, poster session
BOSTON UNIVERSITY Boston, Massachusetts — 20 October 2015
Colloquium: “On Pacing, Performance and Composition”
Host: Ketty Nez, Assistant Professor of Music, Boston University
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY Waltham, Massachusetts — 17 September 2015
Colloquium: “On Pacing, Performance and Composition”
Host: Davy Rakowski, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Composition, Brandeis University
UNITED STATES CONSULATE : THE SHANGHAI AMERICAN CENTER Shanghai, China — 12 May 2015
Lecture: "What Makes Music Beautiful?"
Host: The U.S. Consulate General Shanghai Public Affairs Section
EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY Shanghai, China — 8 May 2015
Lecture: "自然VS人类 – Nature Versus Man: Linear Analysis of Lieder by Schubert and Schumann"
part of the research program Study on Chinese and Western Modern Music from Perspective of Semiotics
Host: Yan Zheng, Associate Professor of Music, East China Normal University
SHANGHAI CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Shanghai, China — 6 May 2015
Lecture: “Composition and Microtiming”
Host: Professor Zhang Wei, and Professor Zhou Qian, Shanghai Conservatory of Music
HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, Massachusetts — 27 April 2015
Colloquium: “On Ebenbild, Bacchante, and my Recent Music”
Host: Harvard Group for New Music [HGNM]
BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC Boston, Massachusetts — 8 April 2015
Colloquium: "Microtiming: Borrowing, Measuring, Composing"
Host: Andrew List, Professor, Berklee College of Music
HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, Massachusetts — 20 January 2015
Lecture: "Microtiming: Borrowing, Measuring, Composing", part of Sensing the Data
Host: FAS Group Expanding the Boundaries of Authorship, Martin Shreiner, Harvard University
BOSTON UNIVERSITY Boston, Massachusetts — 4 November 2014
Colloquium: “On my Music", for the Composers Forum
Host: Joshua Feinberg, Professor of Composition, Boston University
THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK York, UK — 4 June 2014
Lecture: “Recent Developments in Microtiming as a Compositional Material"
Hosts: Catherine Laws, Professor and Dr Thomas Simaku, Reader, University of York
YALE UNIVERSITY New Haven, Connecticut — 10 April 2014
Lecture: “Rhythm and Temporality”
Host: Ève Poudrier, Assistant Professor, Yale University
THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS London, England — 7 June 2013
International Conference “Copies, Casts and Replicas”
Invited lecture/recital on my compositions, with pianist Mark Knoop
Host: Alain Pottage, Professor, The London School of Economics
HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, Massachusetts — 26 March 2013
Lecture: “Writing Across Music” as part of the Seminar Series Rethinking Translation
Hosts: Stephanie Sandler and Sandra Naddaff, Harvard University
YALE UNIVERSITY New Haven, Connecticut — 12 December 2012
Lecture: “The Concept of Time”
Host: Paul North, Associate Professor, Yale University
HOCHSCHULE, LUZERN - MUSIK Lucerne, Switzerland — 3 May 2012
Guest of the Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft
Lecture: "On the Art of Composing with Micro-Temporal Data"
Host: Olivier Senn, Professor, Hochschule, Luzern – Musik
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR AESTHETICS Tampa, Florida — 26 October 2011
Lecture: (in absentia) with Dr Andrew Kania, Professor, Trinity University: “A Musical Photograph?”
Host: 2011 National Conference of the American Society for Aesthetics
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Hanover, New Hampshire — 6 October 2011
Lecture: “On Time in my Recent Music” to the Dartmouth Composers Forum
Host: Spencer Topel, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College
HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, Massachusetts — 17 February 2011
Harvard Thinks Big: “Experiencing Time in Music”
Chosen in campus-wide poll as one of 10 professors to address 1000 undergraduate students on a general topic
HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, Massachusetts — 20 September 2010
Colloquium: “Micromeasured Interpretations as Compositional Material”
Host: Harvard Group for New Music [HGNM]
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Centre for Music and Science Cambridge, England — 23 March 2010
Lecture: “Some Account of the Process of Microtiming and Musical Photorealism”
Host: Nicholas Cook, 1684 Professor of Music, University of Cambridge
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Faculty of Music Composition Cambridge, England — 23 March 2010
Lecture: “On my Recent Music”
Host: Nicholas Cook, 1684 Professor of Music, University of Cambridge
THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC London, England — 13 March 2010
Research Event devoted to the Étude d’un prélude series
Lecture: “Micro-measured Interpretations as Compositional Material”
with additional talks by Dr Olivier Senn and Lorenz Kilchenmann (Hochschule, Luzern)
and performances by the Kreutzer String Quartet and Mark Knoop
Host: Neil Heyde, Professor, Royal Academy of Music
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY The Steinhardt School of Music New York — 7 February 2010
Research Event devoted to the Étude d’un prélude series
Lecture: “Some Account of the Process of Microtiming and Musical Photorealism”
Host: Marilyn Nonken, Professor, NYU Steinhardt School
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR AESTHETICS Northampton, Massachusetts — 16 November 2008
Paper: “Conceiving Musical Transdialection”; co-authored with Dr Joseph Moore, Professor, Amherst College
Host: 2008 National Conference of the American Society for Aesthetics