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Seminar: A workshop on improvisation, composition, messy minimalism as well as a Q&A - Bex Burch

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Participants are encouraged to bring instruments (their choice of) and comfortable fitting clothes to be able to move around in.

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Date(s)
March 5, 2025
Location
The Harty Room, Music Building
Time
13:00 - 15:00

Whether combining the rhythmic timbres of wood, metal and audience claps or duetting with the atmospheric and elegiac echoed sounds of water dripping into a metal basin, Bex Burch is a composer, percussionist, producer and improviser who emphasises space, repetition and aspects of chaos. These themes characterise an ongoing approach she describes as “messy minimalism”.

QUB welcomes Burch to share a workshop on improvisation, composition, messy minimalism as well as a Q&A about today's industry and intention with releasing music.

Burch’s critically acclaimed 2023 solo album, 'There is only love and fear' was released via Chicago’s International Anthem and named The Guardian's Contemporary Album of the Month. She runs the label and post-punk band, Vula Viel, and has collaborated with influential artists including Leafcutter John as part of ‘Boing!’, Tamar Osborn and Danalogue in ‘Flock’, Peter Zummo, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Ben LaMar Gay, Dan Bitney and Macie Stewart.

Whether combining the rhythmic timbres of wood, metal and audience claps or duetting with the atmospheric and elegiac echoed sounds of water dripping into a metal basin, Bex Burch is a composer, percussionist, producer and improviser who emphasises space, repetition and aspects of chaos. These themes characterise an ongoing approach she describes as “messy minimalism”.

Bex Burch Biography: (By Paul Bowler)

Photo credit: Fabian Brennecke

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