Deep dive: Antonia Barnett McIntosh, Ethan Braun, and Samuel Holloway

Join three experimental composer-performers as they discuss what’s at stake for contemporary sound practice and reflect on notions of language, score, and communication in music.

Booking is encouraged but not essential.

WHAT TO EXPECT

This event is free.

This event will be held in the Kit, which can be accessed by the main gallery entrance or alternatively by our car park on 8 East St for assisted access.

This location is accessible with assistance.

This event will be seated and microphones will be used.

Light refreshments will be available.

BIOGRAPHIESBLOT (b. 2022) is an independent, artist-run, open access, online journal encompassing a variety of music, sound-based, and performance practices. BLOT creates space for critical discourse and documentation and to foster community for art practices that deal in music, sound, and performance in Aotearoa. BLOT is a platform for constructive conversations about sonic art and culture, alongside issues facing our community. Since our first issue, we have worked with over 50 contributors to publish writing and other creative work across four issues. BLOT is co-edited by Antonia Barnett McIntosh and Samuel Holloway. 

Antonia Barnett McIntosh of Kāi Tahu and Pākehā, is a composer-performer, editor, and curator. She collaborates in cross-arts spaces, gently tapping on the borders between speech/music, performance/rehearsal, composition/writing, and juxtaposing the formalities of presentation with the aesthetics of failure. Antonia has presented work at the Barbican, Kings Place, Wigmore Hall, Spike Island, Café OTO; as part of City of London Festival, Festspillene i Nord-Norge, Capital Fringe Washington D.C., 4 Days Arnolfini, and BBC Radio 3’s Hear & Now: Why Music?; for residencies with Wellcome Collection London, Morni Hills Chandigarh, Te Kōkī-NZSM, Q-O2 Brussels, Bundanon Art Museum, and EMPAC New York.

Ethan Braun is a composer known for experimental approaches to sound and live performance. Braun’s work braids improvisation with algorithmic and computer-assisted compositional models, as well as sampling, in music that harmonizes the conceptual, formalistic, and emotional. A frequent collaborator in transdisciplinary contexts, Braun has worked with choreographers, visual artists, and musicians across various media, with projects presented at venues such as Kampnagel Hamburg, CalArts REDCAT, Rewire Festival, Swiss Institute NYC, and LUMA Arles. Braun’s concert music has been performed at Roulette Intermedium and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Dutch National Opera.

Samuel Holloway is a composer and educator. His practice is variously concerned with ambiguous affective states such as boredom, notions of temporality in music, and the continuing potential of musical notation as a site for exploration. His work has been presented by leading artists and ensembles including Klangforum Wien (Austria), Mayumi Miyata & Tosiya Suzuki (Japan), the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Stephen De Pledge (Aotearoa), NZTrio, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Samuel maintains a longstanding collaborative relationship with the collective et al. His current research activity is focused on the late ‘number pieces’ of John Cage.