Contemporary Music Review special issue, George Crumb: Style, Idea and Performance Practice edited by Yati Durant, published!

A dear project to me has now finally been completed: I can proudly present the publishing of a special issue on my mentor and composition teacher, the late George Crumb, in the latest issue of Contemporary Music Review, Volume 41, Issue 1 (2022). The issue is titled George Crumb: Style, Idea and Performance Practice published by Taylor and Francis. I have edited this issue with contributions by many other leading International George Crumb scholars, Robert C. Cook, Kristina L. Knowles, Abigail Shupe, Marilyn Nonken, and Philipp Lalitte. In this issue, I have also added a series of interviews I made with George Crumb between 2013 - 2018.

The entire issue can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gcmr20/41/1

Yati's Quiet Cities Sound Art works will be broadcasted by Radiophrenia between 8th - 20th February 2022

Yati’s sound art works entitled Quiet Cities (1 - 8) will be broadcasted by Radiophrenia via internet and FM radio (!) in Scotland 87,9hz between 8th - 20th February 2022. The broadcasts, part of a continuous 24/7 series of broadcasts run by the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, feature many Scottish sound artists inspired by sounds, music and field recordings.

Quiet Cities will be broadcasted on Radiophrenia on these dates and times in February:

8th - 8am
9th - 8am
10th - 1pm
12th - 8am
14th - 10pm
15th - 8am
18th - 8am and 1pm
20th Feb - 1pm

Quiet Cities are also available to listen with accompanying visuals on Yati’s personal website here.

About Quiet Cities:

Quiet Cities are live improvised sound art visualised field recordings from Edinburgh Leith/Water of Leith, UK at 4pm on May 5th 2020. The field recordings have been electronically altered slightly and each of them are different. “I walked around during a lockdown afternoon in May 2020 with my stereo field microphone. The city sounded strange to me…so quiet and subdued. These are free improvisations on the impressions I had at the time…”

For more information and to listen via internet:

https://radiophrenia.scot/listen/

Yati invited to Introductory talk for Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne premiere of "Metropolis Rebooted" by Martin Matalon 16th February 2022

Yati has been invited to talk at public event at the Cologne Film Forum NRW in Museum Ludwig (next to the Philharmonie) at 6:30pm on Wednesday 16th February 2022 together with composer Martin Matalon and Gürzenich Orchestra programme director Patrick Hahn.

The discussion will focus on Metropolis and creation of Matalon’s new score! More information about this event here: https://www.lifepr.de/inaktiv/guerzenich-orchester-koeln/das-guerzenich-orchester-unter-der-leitung-von-francois-xavier-roth-spielt-live-zu-fritz-langs-metropolis-die-urauffuehrung-metropolis-rebooted-von-martin-matalon-16-17-februar-philharmonie-koeln/boxid/883708

AcadeMeet @Soundtrack Cologne 18th - 19th November 2021

Soundtrack Cologne is holding their annual AcadeMeet (formerly EEAMS) in-person meeting at the Soundtrack Cologne Conference on Thursday 18th November 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm Germany time. The meeting takes place, as in previous years, at the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Apostelnkloster 13-15, 50672 Köln.

Yati will be hosting this meeting in-person, so please contact me as soon as possible if you would like to present your institution at this meeting, or if you would like to present research or student research. Please tell your students to come as student representatives and enjoy the conference too! This meeting is open to all Soundtrack Cologne participants and IMMSANE members with accreditation to STC.

We will also be going out to lunch together after the meeting and hope you will join us!

Furthermore, we will be hosting an Online AcadeMeet/IMMSANE meeting on Friday 19th November 14:00pm - 15:30pm Germany time via Zoom for colleagues who can not make the Thursday morning session or are unable to travel. This meeting will be co-hosted by IMMSANE Europe Directors André Belmont and Rens Michielse as well as myself, and is open to Soundtrack Cologne students and academics upon request and all IMMSANE members.