ACHTUNG!!!

DIFFERENT VENUE, TIME & DAY:

FREITAG, 30. Oktober 2015, 20:00 Uhr

Prachtwerk | Musik-Kunst-Café
Ganghoferstraße 2
12043 Berlin
U7 Karl-Marx-Straße

This up-close and personal lecture by groundbreaking improviser, installation artist, and scholar Lewis will “trouble the bright line separating creative work from academic research, through an examination of recent cases from my work as a composer and interactive artist.” 

George E. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Lewis has received a MacArthur Fellowship (2002), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), a United States Artists Walker Fellowship (2011), an Alpert Award in the Arts (1999), and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.  Lewis has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971, and his widely acclaimed book, A Power Stronger Than Itself:  The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press, 2008) received the American Book Award and the American Musicological Society’s first Music in American Culture Award.  His creative work as composer, improvisor, and computer/installation artist is documented on more than 140 recordings, presented by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonia Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, International Contemporary Ensemble, Musee des Sciences et des Industries La Villette, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, and the 2010 Vancouver Cultural Olympiad.  Lewis and Benjamin Piekut are co-editors of the forthcoming two-volume Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies (2016).  In 2015, Lewis received the degree of Doctor of Music (DMus, honoris causa) from the University of Edinburgh.