Marcos Balter: National Sawdust Composer Session (2020)

The New Works Composer Sessions begin with composer, and professor of composition UCSD, Marcos Balter, who will explore the topic of Collective Structures: collaboration, cooperation, and reimagining hierarchical methods in music. Balter describes his session: This discussion intends to identify roles in collective creative processes, examining the differences between collaboration and cooperation, and reimagining hierarchical methods through more synchronous and interconnected tactics. Fundamentally, this conversation aims towards finding ways to build more equitable practices in the musical field while expressing and sharing ideas, and by broadening the definition and scope of "who" makes art, and who engages with it, and how.