Event details
Sep
28
Medieval Song and the Sounding of World, Body, and Imagination
Medieval Song and the Sounding of World, Body, and Imagination
LUDUS, A Collaborative Humanities Project; Program in Medieval Studies
LUDUS and the Program in Medieval Studies present “Medieval Song and the Sounding of World, Body, and Imagination:” a lecture-performance by Sarah Kay and Concordian Dawn.
“Almost everything we might wish to know about the sound of medieval music is lost to us,” warns Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. Through the double medium of discursive speculation and live performance, Sarah Kay and Concordian Dawn set out in this lecture-performance not to know medieval song – we agree that is not possible – but to relive some of its affective realities, which we locate not in the objective worlds of time, place, or historical circumstance, but in dynamic interactions between body and world inflected by imagination. The sounds of this song are conjured not just by birds and fountains, but by celestial beasts and alluring sirens. Some of these sung texts represent the singing subject captivated by beauty, others struggling between life and death, others at the limits of a dream world, or ecstatic with joy.
LUDUS is a Collaborative Humanities Project from the Humanities Council.
LUDUS, A Collaborative Humanities Project; Program in Medieval Studies
LUDUS and the Program in Medieval Studies present “Medieval Song and the Sounding of World, Body, and Imagination:” a lecture-performance by Sarah Kay and Concordian Dawn.
“Almost everything we might wish to know about the sound of medieval music is lost to us,” warns Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. Through the double medium of discursive speculation and live performance, Sarah Kay and Concordian Dawn set out in this lecture-performance not to know medieval song – we agree that is not possible – but to relive some of its affective realities, which we locate not in the objective worlds of time, place, or historical circumstance, but in dynamic interactions between body and world inflected by imagination. The sounds of this song are conjured not just by birds and fountains, but by celestial beasts and alluring sirens. Some of these sung texts represent the singing subject captivated by beauty, others struggling between life and death, others at the limits of a dream world, or ecstatic with joy.
LUDUS is a Collaborative Humanities Project from the Humanities Council.
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