The lecture will take place 7:30 p.m. tonight in Simon Hall M242.
Applebaum will talk about his “radical and not-so-radical music,” according to the Jacobs School of Music.
The lecture poses one main question: what artistic enterprise is worth society’s effort and attention?
Applebaum is an associate professor of composition at Stanford University. His solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, operatic and electroacoustic work has been performed worldwide. He is a TED Talk awardee.
His music is not traditional. Many of his works challenge the conventional boundaries of musical ontology, according to the Jacobs School of Music.
For example, he created a musical piece designed for three conductors and no players, pieces for instruments built out of trash, works for an invented sign language choreographed to sound, amplified Dadaist rituals and a chamber work comprised of obsessive page turns, among many others, according to the Jacobs School of Music.
Tonight’s lecture is the Jacobs School of Music’s most recent Guest Composition Lecture.
It is sponsored by the Center for Electronic and Computer Music.
Audrey Perkins
