Event

The Department of Music and MUSICA PRACTICA ELETTRONICA VIVA are thrilled to host Lea Bertucci on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 to present a talk and workshop on graphic notation in the Lerner Center, 201 S. 34th St., Room 210. This event is a part of the Composers Forum led by Anna Weesner, Dr. Robert Weiss Professor of Music.

In this workshop, composer Lea Bertucci will lead an exploration of creating and interpreting graphic scores. Following an introduction to musical notation methods throughout history, participants will get the chance to try out drawing techniques from disciplines outside of music, like architectural drafting, electronic design and fine art. By experimenting with ways to represent compositional elements like time, timbre, pitch and spatialization, the group will imagine new relationships between sight and sound.

ABOUT

Lea Bertucci is a composer, performer and sound designer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her instrumental practice with woodwind instruments, she incorporates multi-channel speaker arrays, electroacoustic feedback, extended instrumental technique and tape collage. In recent years, her projects have expanded toward site-responsive and site-specific sonic investigations of architecture. Deeply experimental, her work is unafraid to subvert musical expectation.

Her discography includes a number of solo and collaborative releases on independent labels and in 2018, she released the critically acclaimed Metal Aether on NNA tapes. Lea is co-editor of the multi-volume artists book The Tonebook, a survey of graphic scores by contemporary composers, published on Inpatient Press.