Megan Steinberg: On Composition & Disability
Event details
Megan is working with UK disability charity Drake Music and contemporary ensemble Distractfold to compose a piece that puts accessibility first, and explores bias in Artificial Intelligence.
The composition and rehearsal process for the piece, ‘Outlier’, is being flipped on its head: scores are being designed individually based on the needs of the performers rather than dictated by the composer, and chance procedures and experimentalism used to allow for individual expression of each performer. This piece is part of Megan’s PhD at Royal Northern College of Music in association with Drake Music, ‘Living Instruments, Universal Composition: New Works and Accessible Music Processes for and by Disabled Musicians’.
We will discuss the roles of composition, collaboration, AI and experimental aesthetics with musicians who identify as disabled, Deaf and/or neurodivergent. Thoughts and questions from students and musicians who identify similarly as particularly welcome.
Meeting ID: 974 1147 1887
Passcode: 030134
Megan Steinberg (PRiSM Lucy Hale Doctoral Composer, Royal Northern College of Music)
Megan Steinberg is an experimental composer and abstract turntablist. She works with found sound, improvisation, text and graphic scores. Megan was appointed the Lucy Hale Doctoral Composer in Association with Drake Music at Royal Northern College of Music, where she is creating new works for Disabled musicians, new instruments and AI. She has composed for performers including Heather Roche, Juice Vocal Ensemble, Apartment House and Lore Lixenberg. In 2016, she was awarded the FI Williams Prize for Composition. Megan is a dedicated advocate for accessibility and representation in music.