thinking through knowing through doing (part of doing together 24)
doing together 24
doing together is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at Locksbrook Campus, hosted by the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries in collaboration with Bath School of Art, Film and Media and Bath School of Music and Performing Arts.
Workshops, delivered by staff and postgraduate students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. doing together is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.
Throughout the symposium, facilitators – alongside participants – test out ways of doing together in an effort to make their practice-based research explicit, rather than simply describe it.
doing together 24 was concluded with a plenary session delivered by Dr Lauren Redhead (Reader in 20th and 21st Century Music at Goldsmiths) who shared her thoughts & findings from the symposium. She has since collated her findings in the piece 'thinking through knowing through doing', a sonic essay that '[functions] as a performance autoethnography of the event'.
Sonic Essay and Introductory Text published 11 November 2024.
Lauren Redhead is a composer, organist, and a musicologist who writes about contemporary music. She is also interested in the ways that these things relate to each other. Her background as a composer is in contemporary chamber music, although now she works across acoustic, electronic, and studio-based contexts. She is interested in notation and materiality, and uses a combination of experimental approaches in the creation of scores and electronic materials, alongside improvisation. This often means that she takes on the role of the composer-as-performer, including working with others so that many of her pieces are devised and created collaboratively. The often graphic- and text-based approaches to notation that she has developed have further been presented in art galleries and as video work. In her work for organ and electronics, with Alistair Zaldua, she works on developing live-interactive approaches to performance for organ and electronics through collaboration with other composers. Her work in these contexts has been presented at many festivals including HCMF, NyMusikk/Only Connect, Tectonics, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, TRANSIT, the London Ear Festival, London Contemporary Music Festival, Firenze Suona Contemporanea, Prague Quadrennial, Full of Noises Festival, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, and on BBCR3, DLF Kultur, and NRK2.
