Professor: Andrew Schultz

T - 3:00pm to 5:00pm

The seminars will be based around some themes and questions in the discussion of music in Australia and beyond, with an emphasis on my personal experience and output as a composer and on the work of other musicians and composers.

Topics to be covered may include:
• landscape, seascape, open space and ‘country’;
• tradition, innovation and influence in indigenous music;
• ‘irreconcilable synchronicities’ - cross-cultural music encounters;
• “Did you use the didj?’ - artistic debates about appropriation and ownership;
• “Do you ever come to the West?” Are internationalism and a sense of place compatible?

• “There’s no-one in Australia!” – confronting European modernism;
• Endling – existential crises in the environment;
• the musical lands of peace, war and social conflict.

Class Notes: Several evening zoom presentations with special guests will be scheduled when class starts.