Give: Transatlantic Collaboration Through Conversation

Ray Evanoff; Kate Ledger

doi:10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2021.4.6.89

Give: Transatlantic Collaboration Through Conversation

Authors

Ray Evanoff Tulane University, New Orleans, United States Author
Kate Ledger University of York, York, United Kingdom Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2021.4.6.89

Keywords:

Give, Covid-19 pandemic, transatlantic collaboration, Pianist, composer

Abstract

Artistic collaborators Kate Ledger (pianist) and Ray Evanoff (composer) discuss their working process in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Conversation provides the model and impetus for this process, an ongoing responsive exchange in which their individual artistic identities co-evolve into forms neither could individually envision, in global circumstances that have acutely disrupted the normal mechanisms providing such social interaction. Artistic values, musical specifics, metaphorical frameworks, and larger references are examined, as well as the role these various elements serve in their art’s realization and evolution. Their model is an adaptive, personalized framework for making art responding to an environment where the conventional explanations for doing so have been undermined.

Author Biographies

Ray Evanoff, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States

Ray Evanoff is an American composer and improviser whose work centers around detail, world building, performance extremity, and extended collaborations born of close relationships. He has worked with numerous contemporary music specialists including most recently Ensemble Apparat, Ensemble Dal Niente, TAK Ensemble, Liam Hockley, and Samuel Stoll, and taught at the University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield New College, University of New Orleans, and Harvard. He is an active concert organizer and arts presenter, and is the founder, director, and editor of FOCI Arts, a contemporary arts organization and online periodical. He studied at the College of Charleston (2002-06) and the University of Huddersfield (2008-12). His principle teachers include Quentin Baxter, Aaron Cassidy, and Steven Kazuo Takasugi. He lives in New Orleans, where he works as a private tutor and lectures on music at Tulane University.
Kate Ledger, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Kate Ledger is a pianist specialising in experimental music and collaboration, exploring the line between compositional aesthetic and effective piano technique. Her performances as a soloist and ensemble member include: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival; Frome Festival; The Society for Electroacoustic Music in Sweden; the PERFORMA conference in Portugal; and Loius Andriessen’s acceptance of the Johan Wagenaar Prize. She gave the world premiere of Steven Kazuo Takesugi’s Sideshow with Distractfold ensemble, for which they won the Kranichstein Music Prize for Interpretation at the 47th International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt. She teaches at the University of York.

Cover of the INSAM Journal No. 6. Design by Milan Šuput

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Published

15.07.2021

Issue

No. 6 (2021): Music, Art, and Humanities in the Time of Global Crisis

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Articles

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Give: Transatlantic Collaboration Through Conversation. (2021). INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology, 6, 89-102. https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2021.4.6.89