{"id":81009,"date":"2019-11-04T14:34:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=81009"},"modified":"2019-11-04T12:43:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:43:02","slug":"first-tuesdays-in-bryant-hall-continues-november-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/first-tuesdays-in-bryant-hall-continues-november-5\/","title":{"rendered":"First Tuesdays in Bryant Hall Continues November 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Noontime music series features ambient music this month<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>First Tuesdays in Bryant Hall Noontime Music Series <\/strong>has, to date, featured music for piano and for clarinet and piano; cello, flute, and voice are slated for upcoming performances. But Tuesday, November 5, <strong>Michael Gardiner<\/strong> will perform on something a little different: his laptop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gardiner, associate professor of music theory at the <strong>University of Mississippi<\/strong>, will perform ambient music. Although it seems\u2014and sounds\u2014like a different animal than more traditional forms of music, it has a lot in common with better-known genres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Just like a jazz musician practices chord changes and licks, and then rearranges them to form a unique piece of music, I create software and coding templates to rearrange and improvise with,&#8221; Gardiner said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In performance, Gardiner will use these templates to create sound textures and then cut between the textures, almost like creating a filmic montage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;With an orchestra, the instruments can shift to create a new sound, but you&#8217;re bound to the possibilities created by that specific set of instruments,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Electronics gives you an almost infinite variety of sound, allowing you to more radically transform the sonic texture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Many people think that electronic music is just about the different sounds, but it&#8217;s also about the form you create with the different textures and how you choose to layer or move from one to another.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A music theorist, Gardiner is the author of <strong><em>Hildegard von Bingen&#8217;s Ordo Virtutum: A Musical and Metaphysical Analysis<\/em><\/strong> (Routledge), published earlier this year. He approaches music theory and the discipline of analysis as a set of design problems and solutions, and these ideas about the structure and method of music composition shape his improvisational approach to creating electronic music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The First Tuesdays in Bryant Hall Noontime Music Series is produced by the <strong>UM Department of Music<\/strong>, and offers free music from 12:15 to 1 pm in Bryant Hall, on the Circle next to Fulton Chapel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By Lynn Adams Wilkins<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noontime music series features ambient music this month The First Tuesdays in Bryant Hall Noontime Music Series has,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":81010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7887],"tags":[15373,15370,15520,5982],"class_list":["post-81009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-music","tag-bryant-hall","tag-first-tuesdays","tag-michael-gardiner","tag-um-department-of-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2019-11-04-First-Tuesdays.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}