An illustration accompanying the original manuscript of Perle. It shows the main characters of the poem, the jeweller on this side of a river and his beloved 'pearl' on the other.

Musical topics, (self-)narrativity and adaptation in my recent composition Pearl

Matthew Kaner

This exposition charts the creation and musical-narrative structure of Pearl, my recent composition for symphony chorus, orchestra, and solo baritone: a setting of extracts from the medieval poem Perle, translated into modern English by Simon Armitage, commissioned as part of the BBC Proms in 2022.

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narrative
composition as research
adaptation
practice research
lament
microtonality
medieval poetry
dream vision
topic theory
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Hannah Clarkson

Raising the Voice: Sculptural and Spoken Narratives from the Flat Sheet

Hannah Clarkson

This exposition explores ideas of narrative and storytelling through sculptures and texts raised from a flat sheet, a kind of visual and spoken poetry which is both particular and multiple. In this paper, the key area of investigation will be the relationship between sculptural and spoken narratives in my practice. This is engaged with in four main areas:

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Architecture
body
Building
narrative
narrativity
sculpture
voice
storytelling
text
poetry
craft
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Memory as a Method for Filmmaking

Emilio Angel Reyes Bassail
This research develops a method for filmmaking that uses autobiographical memory as a guiding principle for the production of images. The proposed method comes as the result of a double gesture in which I wanted to a) acquire a subjective understanding of memory that came from artistic practice; and b) materialize the process of memory through film.
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Memory
filmmaking
methodology
education
Remembering
forgetting
Time
narrative
film
experimental
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