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2022-10-28 05:42:29
Olivia Davies: “I’m always pretty honest in my music, and I’m not shy about doing things differently”
BY OLIVIA DAVIES AS TOLD TO CUTCOMMON Olivia Davies is an Australian composer. She received a Peggy Glanville-Hicks 2023 Prelude residency after recently achieving an The post first appeared on CutCommon.
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Music is not a matter of notes, it's a matter of sounds
In this age of supposed diversity the Egyptian composer, ethnomusicologist and electronic music pioneer Halim El-Dabh is overlooked. While still a student in the 1940s Halim El-Dabh experimented with composing using wire recorders. In 1944 he created one of the earliest known examples of electronic musique concrète. The Expression of Zaar manipulated field recordings of a traditional zaar exorcism ceremony, and predated Pierre Schaeffer's work by four years. In 1950 Halim El-Dabh received a Fulbright Scholarship and moved to the United States, becoming a US citizen in 1961. His composition teachers included Ernst Krenek, Aaron Copland and Luigi Dallapiccola. In New York his circle included Henry Cowell, John Cage, and Peggy Glanville-Hicks, and he composed four ballet scores for Martha Graham and was an influential figure in the early days of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Halim El-Dabh came from a Coptic-Christian family with ancestral roots in Upper Egypt close to […]
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