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The Reeder Fellows invite the campus community to discuss how listeners define music 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 17 in the back room of Gilbert’s. Free dessert will be provided.
Marquis Scholar Allison Shapp ’08 (Plainview, N.Y.), a double major in music and language studies, will lead the discussion entitled “Out-of-the-Box Music: How Far Can It Go and Still Be Considered Music?”
“The discussion will be about things like ‘chance music’ written by composers like John Cage and Pauline Oliveros,” explains Shapp. “These composers try to get their audiences to listen to the world around them, and consider things as music that they wouldn’t previously have thought about. Music can be defined in many ways: organized sound, an agreement between composer, performer, and listener, or ‘sonic awareness,’ which is a term coined by Oliveros.”
Participants will discuss whether all those descriptions of music are valid or one is best. Discussion also will focus on how far “chance music” and similar movements can be pushed before they are no longer considered music.
Now in its second year as an off campus intellectual community, the Reeder Fellows program is experimenting with a new format. Reeder Fellows host events with professionals, visiting artists, college professors, and religious leaders.
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