Panel discussion for New Resonances symposium, organised by Theatrum Mundi and the Onassis Cultural Centre, in partnership with Whitechapel Gallery, as part of the INTERFACES project supported by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.
Chair: Gareth Evans, Whitechapel Gallery.
Speakers: artist Haig Aivazian, PhD Candidate at The Bartlett School of Architecture Ruth Bernatek, and composer Jennifer Walshe.
The panel asked: How does composition make the past audible?Should music be shaped by histories of sites, or resist and reinvent them? What is the difference between working with personal memory and canonical history, which can often be in conflict with one another?