Prof. Ben Carson on Artists on Art Radio show for 9/15/9
Composer-theorist Benjamin Carson was on the this week’s Artists on Art Interview show. He is on the music faculty, and is an affiliate of DA/NM and American Studies.
He shares some ideas about gender and musical form, and about different orientations to musical listening.
We began the show with a discussion of the commodification of music in US popular culture and how that has impacted the range of music that we find in the mainstream, and has impacted how we hear musical time, and musical repetition. He explained some different approaches to listening that are outside this paradigm, and shared an excerpt of his percussion duo “Mediations, Tenors,” performed by New York percussionists Ian Antonio and Russell Greenberg.
We also spoke of his PhD training at UC San Diego with Roger Reynolds and Gerald Balzano, and how that influenced his work and practice.
If you missed the live transmission of the show on KZSC, please click here to listen to the broadcast of Ben’s brilliant and eloquent thoughts. You can also explore his music, and his creative goals, in more detail, at http://www.facebook.com/l/1998f;<http://benleedscarson.com>.”