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Ursula Kwong-Brown - Part 3
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For Good Measure, by Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)
Episode 124: Ursula Kwong-Brown - Part 3
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In this week’s episode, we talk to Ursula Kwong-Brown about her work with multimedia, setting text to music, and art as a response to trauma. If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Ursula Kwong-Brown, check her out here: https://www.ursulakwongbrown.com/. This episode was originally recorded in February 2024.
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Intro music: “Trifolium” by Gabriela Ortiz, performed by E4TT (Ilana Blumberg, violin; Abigail Monroe, cello; Margaret Halbig, piano), as part of “Below the Surface: Music by Women Composers,” January 29, 2022
Outro music: “Lake Turkana” by Marcus Norris, performed by E4TT (Margaret Halbig, piano), as part of “Alchemy,” October 15, 2021
Transcription courtesy of Otter.ai.
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Chapters
1. Ursula Kwong-Brown - Part 3 (00:00:00)
2. In this week's episode, we continue our conversation with Ursula Kwong-Brown, who we spoke to in February 2024. (00:00:38)
3. Can you talk about incorporating multimedia in your work as in your Reflections on Rothko, for example? (00:00:46)
4. So I Should Have Taken the Train, which is for prepared piano, electronics and spoken text. It's a horrifying text and equally chilling composition. But it's not, sadly, it's not that atypical in experience. How did the idea of composing it arise?... (00:03:48)
5. Do you want to talk about the trouble you were having at UC Berkeley? Or would you rather not? (00:06:42)
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