Lecture Series on Music of Our Time: Composer Luca Antignani
Creating harmonic syntax in a non-tonal context.
Harmonic syntax examines how and why chords are sequenced to form coherent and meaningful phrases, structures, directions, instabilities and resolutions.
Over time, this practice has become so established that it has created a veritable staging of harmonic tensions and releases, of expectations that are either disappointed or predictably resolved, constituting a subtle and perverse interplay with the listener’s nerves. This is a type of strategy that could easily be extended to other artistic genres such as prose or cinema.
Tonal syntax is not the only one possible, nor even the only one that exists, as it is of purely Western origin and results from specific social and cultural conditions. Is it therefore possible to recreate an effective harmonic syntax in a non-tonal context, based on more universal acoustic principles?
Luca Antignani is an awarded composer and professor of orchestration at the Lyon CNSMD and at the at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne. He studied piano, conducting, electronic music and composition at the Scuola Civica ”Claudio Abbado” in Milan, and later at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and IRCAM in Paris. His oeuvre, consisting of chamber, vocal, and orchestral works, has been performed in numerous festivals around Europe, Canada and the USA.
Read more about Luca Antignani
The lecture is held in English.
Changes are possible.
Further information: Niilo Tarnanen, niilo.tarnanen@uniarts.fi
Lecture Series on Music of Our Time
Lecture series on the Music of Our Time is a study module of the Study Programme of Composition and Music Theory at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, that gathers interesting domestic and international composers and other artists reflect their new works and their practice.
The Thursday afternoon lecture series was already launched in the 1960s under the name composition seminar. New compositions were talked publically and there was polemic discussion concerning them. The current name ’Aikamme musiikin luentosarja’ was established in the 1980s.
Several composers from Finland and abroad have gave visiting lecture in the series, such as Aulis Sallinen, Magnus Lindberg, Kaija Saariaho, Kalevi Aho, Jukka Tiensuu, Olli Mustonen, DJ Orkidea etc. Among international guests, there have been i.a. Krzysztof Penderecki, John Adams, Steve Reich, Chaya Czernowin, Per Nørgård, Louis Andriessen, Mark Andre, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Phill Niblock, Brett Dean, Sunleif Rasmussen and Tom Johnson.
Alongside composers, many other professionals of contemporary music and art, musicians, writers, visual artist, directors and choreographers have discussed their work. Among these are writer Veijo Meri, neurologist Matti Bergström, violinist Pekka Kuusisto, and docent in Japanese esthetics Minna Eväsoja.
During all these years the lecture series has been hosted i.a. professors Einojuhani Rautavaara and Paavo Heininen, lecturers Tapani Länsiö, Juhani Nuorvala and Riikka Talvitie, and composers Pasi Lyytikäinen and Matthew Whittall. Currently it is curated by composer, permanent part time teacher in music theory Niilo Tarnanen.
Welcome to discuss recent topics of contemporary music!
Harmonic syntax examines how and why chords are sequenced to form coherent and meaningful phrases, structures, directions, instabilities and resolutions.
Over time, this practice has become so established that it has created a veritable staging of harmonic tensions and releases, of expectations that are either disappointed or predictably resolved, constituting a subtle and perverse interplay with the listener’s nerves. This is a type of strategy that could easily be extended to other artistic genres such as prose or cinema.
Tonal syntax is not the only one possible, nor even the only one that exists, as it is of purely Western origin and results from specific social and cultural conditions. Is it therefore possible to recreate an effective harmonic syntax in a non-tonal context, based on more universal acoustic principles?
Luca Antignani is an awarded composer and professor of orchestration at the Lyon CNSMD and at the at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne. He studied piano, conducting, electronic music and composition at the Scuola Civica ”Claudio Abbado” in Milan, and later at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and IRCAM in Paris. His oeuvre, consisting of chamber, vocal, and orchestral works, has been performed in numerous festivals around Europe, Canada and the USA.
Read more about Luca Antignani
The lecture is held in English.
Changes are possible.
Further information: Niilo Tarnanen, niilo.tarnanen@uniarts.fi
Lecture Series on Music of Our Time
Lecture series on the Music of Our Time is a study module of the Study Programme of Composition and Music Theory at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, that gathers interesting domestic and international composers and other artists reflect their new works and their practice.
The Thursday afternoon lecture series was already launched in the 1960s under the name composition seminar. New compositions were talked publically and there was polemic discussion concerning them. The current name ’Aikamme musiikin luentosarja’ was established in the 1980s.
Several composers from Finland and abroad have gave visiting lecture in the series, such as Aulis Sallinen, Magnus Lindberg, Kaija Saariaho, Kalevi Aho, Jukka Tiensuu, Olli Mustonen, DJ Orkidea etc. Among international guests, there have been i.a. Krzysztof Penderecki, John Adams, Steve Reich, Chaya Czernowin, Per Nørgård, Louis Andriessen, Mark Andre, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Phill Niblock, Brett Dean, Sunleif Rasmussen and Tom Johnson.
Alongside composers, many other professionals of contemporary music and art, musicians, writers, visual artist, directors and choreographers have discussed their work. Among these are writer Veijo Meri, neurologist Matti Bergström, violinist Pekka Kuusisto, and docent in Japanese esthetics Minna Eväsoja.
During all these years the lecture series has been hosted i.a. professors Einojuhani Rautavaara and Paavo Heininen, lecturers Tapani Länsiö, Juhani Nuorvala and Riikka Talvitie, and composers Pasi Lyytikäinen and Matthew Whittall. Currently it is curated by composer, permanent part time teacher in music theory Niilo Tarnanen.
Welcome to discuss recent topics of contemporary music!