Seminar with Miki Kaneda
Part of NUNC! 5 (the Northwestern University New-Music Conference)
Friday, April 21, 2023 at 2:00pm CDT
Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, LL-115
Moderated by Dr. Ryan Dohoney, Musicology
Miki Kaneda is Assistant Professor of Music, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology at Boston University. The topic of her discussion is "The John Cage Shock Was a Fiction: Experimental Music and Intermedia Art in 1960s Japan."
Free EventAbout NUNC! 5
April 21-23, 2023
The Institute for New Music’s fifth conference and festival, NUNC! 5, will feature guest composers Julia Wolfe and Alex Temple as well as guest keynote speaker Miki Kaneda (Boston University). Guest ensembles include the New York-based Yarn/Wire, who will present a concert, workshop and master class.
The Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alan Pierson, will open the conference with a performance of Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia alongside Julia Wolfe’s Fountain of Youth and Anna Meredith’s Nautilus. The Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble, led by Donald Nally, will give the Midwest premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Letter from Abigail together with David Lang’s the national anthems. The conference will close with a Contemporary Music Ensemble concert conducted by Ben Bolter and Alan Pierson, featuring Julia Wolfe’s Impatience, Alex Temple’s The Man Who Hated Everything and Tania León’s Rítmicas.