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Given name: Jeremy









Surname: Woodruff 









Email: jeremy.woodruff@kug.ac.at









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Title: Discussique: Translation and Metaphor as Guides to Informed Listening and Hybridity in Trans-traditional Music Making









Format: Project presentation (2)









Main language: English









Abstract:
The Discussique: Hearing Flowers project follows the floral metaphors in different culture's music to unfold new forms of listening, music-making, and exchange for 12 musicians representing 7 different traditions of music. Over the course of the year, the project takes place at the botanical Gardens, historical Eggenberg Palace, and Kunsthaus in Graz in turn. Here the translation of metaphors guides fellow musicians and audience members to understand for what to listen in each tradition, in order to acquire a differentiated and insightful appreciation. Only after a long process of learning how to listen to each other do the musicians begin to make music together, looking for a hybrid technique together which can accommodate, rather than flatten out the special aspects of all the different musicians.










Link to the Exposition :  (https://www.researchcatalogue.net/shared/9dd532a50205e68a310081f94241abb4)









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Short biographies of the presenter(s):
- Jeremy Woodruff is a composer and researcher dealing with such diverse subjects as protest, urban gardens and transcultural music theory. He is Senior Scientist, and Deputy Head of the Centre for Artistic Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. He is also a founding member of the sound art collective Errant Sound in Berlin and a multi-instrumentalist on baritone sax and multiple winds including bansuri, ney and kaval. He was a co-curator of the Dystopia Sound Art Biennial and is currently leader of the Sonic Borderlines Listening Series.  www.sonicborderlines.org










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