This week Declassify welcomes onboard polymath, the composer, artist, broadcaster and writer Julian Day. Yet another familiar voice as an experienced broadcaster for ABC Classic to BBC Radio 3, Julian is now living in New York pursuing a Masters in Fine Arts at the University of Columbia. So, if you catch any ambient honking, it will give you a sense of the adventure he’s on right now. His work has proactively and deeply considered the relationships between the social, spatial and the sonic, particularly his co-direction of Super Critical Mass (since 2007), an ongoing participatory sound project. In this episode, Julian and Victoria explore the questions of: is the regimented essence of the orchestra model affecting or too closely prescribing our experiences of music? Is the space of the concert hall prohibitive to an audience having a higher level of agency in their experience? And how can we think about working with a new or more dynamic social models in which art-making and music-making can be participated in and experienced?

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RESOURCES (selected; for a full list please visit the episode transcript)
Julian Day

http://www.julianday.com/

Super Critical Mass

 https://www.supercriticalmass.com/

Oliveros, Pauline. 1974. Sonic Meditations. Smither Publications: American Music. Downloadable at this link: https://monoskop.org/images/0/09/Oliveros_Pauline_Sonic_Meditations_1974.pdf