Post Studio Music

GR - Graduate

Inspired by Michael Asher's long durational art critique classes held at CalArts for decades, we will "read", analyze and critique works of art (music) at length in group discussions with a focus on what the music does, rather than how the music has been done. We will engage with a select number of musical artists that utilize strategies known from the visual arts, who push boundaries of music's function in a critical, political, social context (Terre Thaemlitz, Klein, Fatima Al Quadiri, Robert Ashley). Through these discussions we will develop a shared language and a set of reference points, that will form the basis of discussing "objects" (music), that the students bring in for the last class.