Landscape/Music

Weeks, James

Abstract

British composer James Weeks discusses the evolution of visuality in his work, from emulation of the abstract painting of Antoni Tàpies to more recent, ecologically-oriented scores. The entanglement of our sensory stimuli leads to a fundamentally multimodal experience of space and landscape, explored in Weeks’ work through engagement with the art of the Dutch Golden Age (Schilderkonst, 2003-4), and later in ecologically-themed installation pieces including Bee Haven (2017). The development of multimodal ecological paradigms is of primary importance to our future art, a commitment to which Weeks’ most recent scores, including Weatherworld Quartets (2022-3), aim to speak.

Citation

Weeks, J. (in press). Landscape/Music. In S. Mahler Kraaz, & C. de Mille (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music and Art (293-299). London: Bloomsbury

• Online Publication Date: Oct 5, 2023
• Deposit Date: Sep 11, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 6, 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Pages: 293-299
• Series Title: Bloomsbury Handbooks
• Edition: 1st
• Book Title: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music and Art
• Chapter Number: 19
• ISBN: 9781501377716
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1735104
• Publisher URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbury-handbook-of-music-and-art-9781501377730/