Public Lecture Series

The School of Music’s Public Lectures take place at the dates and times listed below. All are welcome.

2024-25

12 February 2025: Rethinking the Clarinet as an Animal

Dr Scott McLaughlin

During this lecture, Dr Scott McLaughlin will addres how to compose for the clarinet in a way that lets the instrument have its own agency and behaviors, to treat it more like an animal that we interact with, than a tool we manipulate. What does this mean for performer technique and agency? And how do we train musicians in this way without undermining existing technique or allowing the music to become simply random noise? Can the clarinet, like a bird, be seen to have its own language of sounds and actions, distinct from what we impose on it?

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