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Tristan Murail, the controversial leading figure in the French "Spectral School" of composition, will discuss the theoretical and philosophical premises of his music.  In this combined lecture and performance of his music, Murail will explain and demonstrate the origins of the artistic aesthetic in his metaphorical transformation of sounds from Nature into elaborate, extended, and highly original compositions.

Cosponsored by School of Music, Composition-Theory Division, Department of French, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Audio Development Group