The pianist and musicologist Olivia I-Hsuan Tsai recently discussed my music and music-making in China and Taiwan in a presentation given online for the College Music Society. In the same paper, she discussed the music of Paul SanGregory and Michael Sidney Timpson. The link to the abstract, presentation and related video files and links for…Continue Reading “Olivia I-Hsuan Tsai, Lost in Diversity: Western Expatriates in Asia and the multi-cultural influences in their music (Nov.’24)”
I was honoured to be invited to give the keynote lecture at the 23rd International Music Theory Conference: Principles of Music Composing- “National Versus Global”, held at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA) from November 15th to 17th 2023. The title of my lecture was Composition as an extension of ethnomusicology: the…Continue Reading “Keynote Lecture at 23rd International Music Theory Conference, LMTA”
I was excited to receive notification from Cambridge Scholars Publishing that the Proceedings of both the 2022 and 2023 sessions of the International Symposium of Contemporary Music Research, which I organise under the auspices of Nanhua University, have been accepted for publication. The titles I’ve chosen for the two sets of Proceedings are: 2022: Shifting…Continue Reading “Exciting News! Symposium Proceedings accepted for publication (Aug ’23)”
From April to June 2023, I organised for the third year running an international academic symposium for the department of ethnomusicology of Nanhua University. This symposium took the status quo and future trends of contemporary art music in Taiwan and abroad as its research theme. The goal was to assemble contributions (papers and compositions) from…Continue Reading “2023 Third International Symposium of Contemporary Music Research “Contemporary Music, Present and Future”2023年第三屆國際當代音樂研討會與座談 「當代音樂的現況與未來的趨勢」(Apr.-June ’23)”
I had a lot of fun thinking about, researching and delivering this lecture- all with just three days’ notice too. 研究所的所長陳慧珊表示： 「感謝南華大學民族音樂學系盧長劍（Dr. George Holloway)老師蒞臨跨域所，在短短兩小時的時間內，盧老師為同學解說、示範西音樂史上的各個時期的『新』與『舊』觀念，透過曲式分析和作品比較，對於史上所謂的『傳統』、『保守』，抑或是『創新』、『現代』、『當代』、『多元』等概念，有諸多證辯性和反思性的討論；此外，在老師的鼓勵下，研究生具深度的提問與反饋，亦是令人印象深刻。 唯有對歷史嚴肅而正向的真誠面對，方能開拓最具前瞻性與挑戰力的未來。」
Over the last eighteen months I’ve been engaged in an ongoing project to familiarise myself with the ancient and charming instrumentarium of Chinese court ceremonial music, known as Yayue, a close ancestor of the Japanese gagaku. I’ve approached this from the point of view of first understanding the characteristic atmosphere of a traditional Confucian ritual,…Continue Reading “Yayue project update 雅樂項目更新: Three (More) Yayue for the Confucian “Capping Ceremony” 《三加禮》第二套 (Dec. ’22)”
I’m was excited to be able to organise once again the Symposium of New Works and Research into Contemporary Composers which is took place online on May 21st, under the aegis of Nanhua University Dept. of Ethnomusicology. The academic committee* chose eight papers and six compositions for inclusion in this year’s event. I’m was very…Continue Reading “Symposium of New Works and Research into Contemporary Composers (2022.5.21)”
On July 3rd 2021 I organised a one-day online symposium discussing contemporary music under the aegis of Nanhua University, Taiwan. The title of the symposium was “Symposium of New Works and Research into Contemporary Composer”. The theme for this year was “Avant-Garde and Experimental Creative Considerations in Art Music”. Over 70 people signed up and…Continue Reading “Nanhua University: Symposium of New Works and Research into Contemporary Composers “Avant-Garde and Experimental Creative Considerations in Art Music” 2021.7.3″
I invited my mentor Michael Finnissy to deliver the keynote address at the Nanhua University Dept. of Ethnomusicology’s “Symposium of New Works and Research into Contemporary Composers”. See my more detailed post on the symposium here: Nanhua University: Symposium of New Works and Research into Contemporary Composers “Avant-Garde and Experimental Creative Considerations in Art Music”…Continue Reading “Michael Finnissy Keynote Address at Symposium”