MSAQ Annual Lecture

Conflict as a source of musical ideas: “Nature/Nurture and Three Conflicts.”

This will be a lecture and solo performance examining the conflict in philosophy and the social sciences over human nature, as well as some other conflict-based music. The event is free and all MSAQ members are encouraged to invite friends.

Thursday 23rd July 2009 4-5:30pm University of Queensland, St Lucia, Nixon Room (http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/pdf/StLuciaMap.pdf).

Robert Davidson studied composition with Terry Riley in California and New York, and completed a PhD in composition at the University of Queensland. In addition to many compositional commitments he plays bass in the ensemble Topology, for which he was a founding member. For more info: http://www.topologymusic.com/index.php/bio/robert/

The lecture is a satellite event to the International Society for Cultural History Conference, held at UQ on 20-23 July.