Join Daniel Fong (Doctoral Research Fellow, IMV) and Queer opera singer and activist, Angelle Khachik, as they ruminate on what Queer Opera might be today and discuss some famous and not-so-well-known Queer operas.

In this episode of The Music Talkshow, it's all about playing music with machines! How can we best interact and play music with machines? What does it mean for a machine to be a good bandmate?

This, and so much more, is the topic of PhD candidate Vincenzo Madaghiele's research project at the UiO. On today's show, Vinzenco shares details of his recent artistic projects, his PhD research and insights into complex music tech topics such as mapping, machine-learning, algorithmic instrument design, software and more.

In this Easter special, doctoral research fellow Kristina Sočanski Čelik shares her insights and reminiscences of Eastern Easter - and the religious musical traditions of the Orthodox Christian church. Based on her research on how contemporary composition relates sonic experiences to the spiritual, this show takes listeners across the Greek, Ukrainian, Serbian, and North Macedonian Easter soundscapes, while offering folkloric and sacral readings of the works of Ljubica Marić and Arvo Pärt.

Listening List:

1. The Sorrowful Mother - Vydubychi Church Chorus

2. Anastaseos Imera - Divna Ljubojevic & "The Melodists" Choir

3. Arvo Pärt – Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten – Norwegian Chamber Orchestra – Terje Tønnesen, conductor

4. Arvo Pärt – Für Alina – Kristina Socanski, piano

5. Ljubica Marić – The Byzantine Concerto - Olga Jovanović, piano - Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra - Oskar Danon, conductor

6. Serbian Octoechoe – Gospodi Vozzvah – Voice 1 – Marija Jovićević, Nikola Radunović, chanters

7. Stevan Mokranjac – Passion Week – Radio Television Belgrade Choir – Vladimir Kranjčević, conductor

8. Trad: Easter Ring Dance (Veligdensko oro) – Bajsa Arifovska

References:

"The Revised Julian Calendar". Time and Date. Retrieved 25 December 2017.

Ribic, Romana. (2014). “Audio Recordings of Hymns from the Octoechos as

Written Down by Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac”. New Sound 43, I/2014.

Cizmic, Maria and Helbig, Adriana. "10. The Piano and the Performing Body in the Music of Arvo Pärt: Phenomenological Perspectives". Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred, edited by Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt and Robert Saler, New York, USA: Fordham University Press, 2020, pp. 177-194. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823289783-010