From Ice to Music: The challenges of translating the sights and sounds of Antarctica into music
| dc.contributor.author | Shepherd, P. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-03-29T21:44:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-03-29T21:44:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | In January 2004 I journeyed to Antarctica as an Antarctica New Zealand Honorary Artist Fellow. My proposed study was entitled Sounds of Antarctica and entailed producing a portfolio of original compositions. The attraction of the planet’s last great wilderness for me was to a large degree the challenge of how one translates such a limited visual palette into sound. In this paper I will explore how an environment of sensory deprivation can influence and shape one’s work and how a creative artist can find a productive solution to the issue of transcribing such diverse elements as landscape, history, colour (or absence thereof) and natural phenomena (such as wind) into a satisfying musical and poetic form. I conclude that through the study of this distant, frozen, inhospitable land, my creativity has paradoxically moved into a very fertile stage. It was not, as I first thought, the wide, majestic vistas that later fuelled my compositions but the play of light and the effects of a limited colour palette. Nevertheless, it is perhaps because of the wide horizons that I have been thinking horizontally in a linear fashion rather than vertically. The vastness of the panorama is also the reason for focusing on the small details close at hand. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Shepherd, P. (2009) From Ice to Music: The challenges of translating the sights and sounds of Antarctica into music. Perth, Australia: 8th Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference, 27-29 Apr 2007. Sound Scripts: Proceedings of the 2007 Totally Huge New Music Conference, 2, 79-88. | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-909168-69-8 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3657 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of Canterbury. School of Literacies and Arts in Education | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Sound Scripts. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651 | en |
| dc.subject.marsden | Fields of Research::410000 The Arts::410100 Performing Arts Studies::410101 Music studies | en |
| dc.title | From Ice to Music: The challenges of translating the sights and sounds of Antarctica into music | en |
| dc.type | Journal Article |
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