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Max Mueller Bhavan | India Chennai

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10:00 AM-5:00 PM

Indeterminacy: Ideas, Stories, Experiences

A workshop by James Bunch|As part of Basement21 @ Goethe-Institut, a continual series of contemporary art events

  • Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Auditorium, Chennai

  • Prior Registration | Free

Indeterminacy: Ideas, Stories, Experiences @Chennai © Basement 21

A series of events, presenting contemporary practices of live arts in India, comprising performances, lecture-demonstrations, workshops and more, leading to the annual contemporary dance festival – March Dance, jointly presented by Goethe-Institut Chennai and Basement 21 since 2017.

The next encounter in this series is ‘Indeterminacy: Ideas, Stories, Experiences’, a workshop by James Bunch
Indeterminacy is a composing approach in which some aspects of a musical work are left open to chance or to the interpreter’s free choice. Also known as ‘chance music’, and populated by John Cage in the ’60s, its legacy is today widely used across art forms as a way to create multiple outcomes out of a singular proposition.

In this workshop led by American composer and pedagogue James Bunch, we will explore some of the theoretical as well as practical modalities of this genre of ‘making’.

Beginning with ‘sound transplant’, an impromptu cell-phone sound installation, moving through personal stories and experiences of conceptual art, the day will end with informal sharings of indeterminate works created and rehearsed by the workshop participants.

James Bunch is a composer, performer, conductor and concert organizer living and working in Chennai. He has been teaching composition at the KM Music Conservatory for 8 years.

For more about James Bunch: http://www.jimmibunch.com/ 

To register / for any other queries, please write to mail.basement21@gmail.com

 

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