Our own Dr Robert Casey presents a talk on issues of notation with respect to his own compositional work
Dr Robert Casey is an Irish composer, researcher and pianist whose interests range from through composed music to free improvisation and the many musical shades of grey in-between. His music mixes conventional and extended instrumental techniques, electronic media, traditional and graphic notation, noise, silence and harmony. He is a graduate of Leeds College of Music, Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast where he completed his PhD.
Robert’s music has been performed in recent years at a range of festivals including the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Music Current Festival, Galway Arts Festival, Belfast Festival, Walled City Music Festival and the Kwartesencja Festival in Warsaw. As a performer he has collaborated with a range of musicians from the classical and improvised music worlds including Okkyung Lee, Paul Dunmall, Steve Davis, David Lacey, Ailbhe McDonagh, Franziska Schroeder, Cora Venus Lunny, Colm O’Hara and Orla McDonagh amongst many others.
Robert has authored journal articles on the music of Eliane Radigue, music notation and a forthcoming publication that examines the collaborative work of John Cage and David Tudor. His research interests include experimental music, notation, music cognition, improvisation and contemporary performance practice.