Abby Anderton
Biographic Data
| ID | 6805350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abby Anderton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abby |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderton |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York New York New York USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sustainable sounds
In her landmark 1989 piece Kits Beach Soundwalk, German-Canadian composer Hildegard Westerkamp (b. 1946) explores the Vancouver coastline through familiar sonic cues: the murmur of small waves, the call of seagulls, and water lapping over rocks and seashells. Westerkamp's voice, detached and poetic, evenly narrates overtop these natural sounds: “The barnacles put out their fingers to feed on the water...The city is roaring around these tiny sound…
Hearing the Musical Resonances of Catastrophe
This collection of articles proposes a theoretical model for understanding and analysing the persistence of music making as a response to urban catastrophe. In the Introduction, the authors present an overview of recent humanistic literature on ruin aesthetics, positioning music as a vital yet overlooked dimension of aesthetic responses to disaster. The forum delves into the moral and ethical complexities of performing in ruins from second-centur…
Hearing Democracy in the Ruins of Hitler's Reich
During his 1947 visit to Berlin, American pianist Webster Aitken was shocked to find the Kroll Opera reduced to ‘tangles of twisted girders, resembling empty bird cages. Beyond the Brandenburger Tor, the blocks seem to be made of brown sugar that has gone hard in lumps and streaks’. 1 Aitken was one of dozens of artists invited by the American Military Government to concertize throughout postwar Germany to demonstrate the strength of American mus…
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Hearing Democracy in the Ruins of Hitler's Reich
During his 1947 visit to Berlin, American pianist Webster Aitken was shocked to find the Kroll Opera reduced to ‘tangles of twisted girders, resembling empty bird cages. Beyond the Brandenburger Tor, the blocks seem to be made of brown sugar that has gone hard in lumps and streaks’. 1 Aitken was one of dozens of artists invited by the American Military Government to concertize throughout postwar Germany to demonstrate the strength of American mus…
Hearing the Musical Resonances of Catastrophe
This collection of articles proposes a theoretical model for understanding and analysing the persistence of music making as a response to urban catastrophe. In the Introduction, the authors present an overview of recent humanistic literature on ruin aesthetics, positioning music as a vital yet overlooked dimension of aesthetic responses to disaster. The forum delves into the moral and ethical complexities of performing in ruins from second-centur…
Sustainable sounds
In her landmark 1989 piece Kits Beach Soundwalk, German-Canadian composer Hildegard Westerkamp (b. 1946) explores the Vancouver coastline through familiar sonic cues: the murmur of small waves, the call of seagulls, and water lapping over rocks and seashells. Westerkamp's voice, detached and poetic, evenly narrates overtop these natural sounds: “The barnacles put out their fingers to feed on the water...The city is roaring around these tiny sound…
Art (3 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Musical (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Arts, Culture, and Music Studies (1 work) · Cold war (1 work) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)