This Essay Has a Soundtrack: Martin Arnold Plays Some of His Music
Cultural Studies Salon Seminar
Event Details
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Thursday, January 23, 2025
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Traill College
Building: Scott House
Room: Senior Common Room
Martin Arnold will play recordings of some of his music and, in between, talk about it. In doing so, he will touch on an array of theoretical provocations that have fueled his creative endeavours since the 1990s. This selection will (probably) include: music and cultural-historical mediations (beside Georgina Born); non-exemplary difference (beside Barbara Kruger) and the aesthetic politics of importance (beside Norman Bryson); formlessness (beside Georges Bataille); the experimental and its fragility (beside Trinh T. Minh-ha and Lydia Goehr); the medieval wonderful (beside Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park) and the estetiku divnosti (that is, the aesthetic of curious things, beside Rudolf Komorous). Martin will suggest a politics of music and a musical politics that does not embrace metaphor or require translation.
Martin Arnold is a musician and teacher based in Peterborough, ON. As a composer of notated music, his pieces have been performed nationally and internationally by many acclaimed artists. As a performer, he is a member of a number of marginal free improvisation, experimental pop, psychedelic ultralounge, and weird folk communities, playing (very idiosyncratically) melodica, electric guitar, tenor banjo and garage electronics. Martin is an Assistant Professor in the Cultural Studies Department of Trent University.