Fulbright Forum March 6 – Katherine Pukinskis

Fulbright Iceland invites you to open talk by Fulbright Specialist Dr. Katherine Pukinskis:

„It Sounds Like Home: Expression, Innovation, and Legacy in a Musical Voice“

For centuries and across the globe, music has been tied to place; however, “place” is an all-encompassing–yet impossible-to-define–concept. A sense of place can invoke a nation, tradition, ancestry; it can be a dwelling, an idea, a community. But what does a place sound like? Does it sound at all? In “It Sounds Like Home,” composer, ethnomusicologist, and educator Katherine Pukinskis discusses the complicated history of tying a composer’s musical voice to their nationality, and explores the ways in which a creative voice has evolved alongside the modernizing world. Through examples of historical nationalism in western classical music, (mis)generalizations of environmental exoticism in works by Nordic and Baltic composers, and her own creative output, Pukinskis digs deeper into the complexities of place from a sonic perspective.

Dr. Pukinskis is a composer and an Assistant Professor in Composition in Theory at Carnegie Mellon University and is hosted by the Music, Innovation, Technology program at Iceland University of the Arts Department of Music.

The Fulbright Forum will take place on Friday March 6th at 2 PM at Fulbright Commission Iceland, Laugarvegur 13, 2nd floor (entrance from Smiðjustígur).

All are welcome to attend. The event will also be live-streamed on Zoom: Click hear for stream.