Magnus Andersson has devoted most of his academic career to investigating silence. Professor Ivar Frounberg has composed with it. Together they discuss one of the most central pieces in Western music history, namely John Cage's 4'33'', which consists of a four-minute and thirty-three-second silence. Literature House (Kverneland), 31 August at 19:00 PM. Free admission and open to all.
/ 23/08/2010 / codexThe conversation will revolve around Andersson's doctoral dissertation Elaborating Nothing, and will ask questions about whether silence even exists.
How do you play “nothing”? (Andersson believes there are right and wrong ways) How do you listen to it?
Can silence have its own history and aesthetics?
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has a doctorate in the music of John Cage and majors in performing pianist. He is a music critic in Klassisk Musikkmagasin and Morgenbladet. On 1/1, 2011, he joined the Norwegian Academy of Music as its first postdoctoral fellow. This year he is working as a tango and pilates teacher.
is a composer and professor of composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He has studied with composer Morton Feldman and has written many articles about contemporary music, primarily in Dansk Musiktidskrift. His works encompass all genres and he has been nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2006 and has received the major Carl Nielsen Prize in Denmark.
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