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Michael Edward Edgerton is an active composer with performances around the world. His compositions have received international prizes and recognition. Michael’s music coalesces diverse influences such as European avant-garde, American experimentalism, and world music into contexts that are often informed by scientific models and metaphors. In works such as Rust, this Tattoo of Hunters’ Boots and Rifle Bolts he attempts to convey an expression similar to Edward Said's notion of an artwork exhibiting "intransigence, difficulty, and unresolved contradiction" in order to provide an "occasion to stir up more anxiety, tamper irrevocably with the possibility of closure and leave the audience more perplexed than before... to explore...a nonharmonious, non-serene tension, and above all, a sort of deliberately unproductive productiveness, going 'against'..." While the methods and systems he develops are often influenced by science, it is his intuition – his ear that gives birth to the music.
Michael Edgerton is at the forefront of vocal exploration and has influenced an entire generation through his book, The 21st Century Voice (Rowman & Littlefield, 2nd edition, 2015). As composer, researcher and performer, he has presented new developments in the search for the technical and expressive limits of voice. In addition to research on voice, Michael has published scholarly articles on the intersections of multidimensional networks and nonlinear dynamics on music composition.
His works have been performed around the world by ensembles including 441 Hz Chamber Choir, AuditivVokal Dresden, Bremer Schlagzeugensemble, C Asean Consonant Ensemble, Ekmeles Ensemble, Ensemble Ars Nova, Ensemble L’Itinéraire, Ensemble Proxima Centauri, Ensemble Vortex, Gageego, Kairos String Quartet, Kammerkoret Aurum, Loadbang, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Quartet New Generation, Works-in-Progress Ensemble; and by soloists Pavlos Antoniadis, Matthias Bauer, Jeffrey Burns, Éric-Maria Couturier (Ensemble Intercontemporain), Moritz Ernst, Andreas Fröhling, Mauricio Galeano, Rada Hadjikostova, Jan Heinke, Liu Hu, Joshua Hyde, Chatschatur Kanajan, Timo Kinnunen, Almut Kühne, Jonas Larsson, Jack Adler-Mckean, Mats Möller, Theo Nabicht, Stefan Östersjö, Angela Rademacher-Wingerath, Gary Verkade, among others.
Michael is currently working as Professor of Music at Lund University/the Malmö Academy of Music where he directs the Artistic Research Program in Music.
Edgerton Compositional Topics: Chronology
1985-1988. Michigan State University, Masters of Music candidate. TOPICS: Sound Masses #1 The Final Diary of a Branch (orch), Experimental Music Theater #3 A Penny for the Young Guy (narr, vcs, cham group), Integral Serialism via Logarithmically Expanding Integer Matrix and Pointalism #4 Expansions (pno), Gestural, Cellular Repetition #5 Ai (br trio), New Tonalities-primitivism (Stravinsky, Bartók); #9 Unspoken Crime (pno trio)
1988-1994. The University of Illinois, Doctor of Musical Arts candidate. TOPICS: Tape Music #10 In America (2-chnl tape), Tape and Live Instruments #13 Whose Land? (rock band and 2-chnl tape), Modern Opera #11 Hour History (opera), Pluralism, Quotation, Collage, Postmodernism #14 Michelle 8091-434 (b cl, b. sx, tba, db, trp st), Experimental Music Theater #16 Fama Fraternitatis (vce, dancers and two tunnelers), Extended Vocal Techniques #12 The Hidden Thunder of Screaming Souls (vce and vla), Spectral Loosely Modeling Shiva's Dance as the Dance of Subatomic Matter #20 The Night of Brahman, the Dance of Fire (vln), Formal Inversion of Stable/Transient Materials #22 Regret of a Noiseless Sundering (sax qtet)
1994-1995. Korea. TOPIC: Heavy and Light Metals Add to Futurist Aesthetic #23 XHAIN (pno duo)
1995-1996. California. TOPIC: Experimental Music Theater #33 No!!! (two vcs, drummers and rope climbers)
1996-1999. Madison, WI. TOPICS: Various EVTs including Ingressive Reinforced Harmonics #41 Lingua-Palatal #1 (2 vcs), Experimental Choir Theater #43 Sirens (4 to 40 voices), Novel Palatal Mapping #45 Taffy Twisters (vce and perc), Pedagogy Pieces on Novel Palatal Mapping #48 KOSMOS volumes one (1 to 4 vcs), Pedagogy Pieces on Reinforced Harmonics #49 KOSMOS Volume two (1 to 4 vcs), Influence Three African Rituals #44 Agwara. Nanga. Wolof (steel pns, African dr, br, sax), Exploring transients produced by partial valving on renaissance organ #35 Apposte Messe (organ), Extended Techniques Representing Textual Magic - burial text of the Pyramid of Unas from Egypt in 4th century B.C. #37 A Holy Person Falls into the Nile as a Pelican (cl & hn)
1999-2000. San Diego. TOPIC: electroaoustic music #53 Wassermann (2-chnl playback)
2000-2011. Europe. TOPICS: Third Dimension and One-Note (Scelsi) #55 Mamre (vln), Structuralism (Boulez) #56 le Critérion (fl, ob, cl, bsn), 56 classes of vocal multiphonics #62 Anaphora (solo vce), Multi-parametric & Scalar Investigation #64 String Quartet no. 1 (str qt), Experimental voice, glottal whistle with bells #68 prāna (4 vcs with non-stable drone), Complexity #70 1 sonata (pno), Second Modernity #72 Tempo Mental Rap (gtr), Klangfarben via Scaling Multidimensional Phase Spaces #73 adjusting to beams falling (fl, vlc), Innovation, Shadows & Networks #77 A Marriage of Shadows (fl (alt), sax (alt, ten), perc, gtr, vce), Influenced by computational and information science & explores 4 evts #82 Cataphora (vce)
2011-2015. Malaysia. TOPICS: Influenced by science, loosely models transitions near a critical point in fluid flow where a disturbance triggers turbulence that are embedded within laminar flow, using many contemporary performance techniques #86 2 Sonata (alt fl), Multidimensional & Multi-Strata #88 abaGa baʁatur (SATB), Sounds of Central Asian Steppe from large mammals to small birds - literal and metaphorical transcriptions of nonhuman vocalizations #89 The Return of Takhi, the last Feral Horse (bcl, tpt, tbn, vce), Close and Multiple Mics to Liberate Noises that are usually Hidden #90 Noise is interrupting my practice: Silence is when my reaction is quiet. Silence is my protest against the way things are (pno, mics), Reinterpretation of same audio that Messiaen used for his transcriptions of the North American Songbirds, blackbird and wood thrush from which I made new transcriptions that were more accurate representations of the physical acoustical signal #91 THRUSH (solo pno)
2015-2019. China. TOPICS: Influenced by Science, loosely models the behavior of a dissipative system far from equilibrium #94 Concerto for Orchestra (orchestra), Elements of Tradition that are Dissembled then Destroyed #96. Beauty and Disappearance of an Unstable Orbit (ob, cl, perc, pno, vla, db), Featuring many contemporary techniques, Sirene segmenti is an homage to Demetrio Stratos and a recognition of the United Nations “International Day of Democracy” #101 Sirene Segmenti (soprano solo and choir), New Complexity #102 3 sonata (b cl), Musique concrète instrumentale #105 Elonei Mamre, (vlc)
2019-current. Sweden. TOPICS: Influence of Science – Loosely Model Turbulence in Superfluid Helium #106 Der Rufer (perc qt), Pynchon-esque Fantasy: Mix of High and Low Culture, Post-Spectral, Pluralism, Antimodernism, Scientific Influence, Nonlinear Phenomena, Contemporary Techniques, Multiphonics, Noise, American Experimentalism #109 Rust (sinfonietta), Pynchon-esque Fantasy: Mix of High and Low Culture, Experimental Voice Including Ultra-Sonic Phonation and Novel Methods with Ventricular Fold Use #110_Vine Land (solo voice, lo-fi audio playback, 3D images)
Forskningsoutput: Icke-textbaserad output › Övrigt
Forskningsoutput: Icke-textbaserad output › Konstnärligt arbete
Forskningsoutput: Icke-textbaserad output › Konstnärligt arbete
Forskningsoutput: Icke-textbaserad output › Konstnärligt arbete
Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift › Peer review
Edgerton, M. (Forskare), Herbst, C. (Forskare) & Rosendahl, M. (Forskare)
2021/01/15 → 2025/07/31
Projekt: Forskning
Fredriksson, C. (Forskare), de Wit Sandström, I. (Forskare), Warkander, P. (Forskare), Andersson Cederholm, E. (Forskare), Willim, R. (Forskare), Lyrevik, A. (Forskare), Houmann, A. (Forskare), Sjöholm, C. (Forskare), Skovbjerg Jensen, C. (Forskare), Aslan, D. U. (Forskare), Bjerg, D. (Forskare), Saaristo, E. (Forskare), Högdahl, E. (Forskare), Severinsson, E. (Forskare), Hoff, E. (Forskare), Säwe, F. (Forskare), Skoogh, F. (Forskare), Olsson, J. (Forskare), Enevold Duncan, J. (Forskare), Dahlqvist, J. (Forskare), Lindqvist, K. (Forskare), Gradén, L. (Forskare), Espersson, M. (Forskare), Ledendal, M. (Forskare), Nehl, M. (Forskare), Edgerton, M. (Forskare), Bergmasth, M. (Forskare), Thufvesson, O. (Forskare), Rasmussen, P. (Forskare), Wolgast, S. (Forskare), Lebech, S. (Forskare), Andersson, M. (Forskare), Loodin, H. (Forskare), Hofvander Trulsson, Y. (Forskare), Dahlqvist, J. (Forskare) & Landau, F. (Forskare)
2019/06/19 → …
Projekt: Nätverk
Edgerton, M. (Forskare) & Herbst, C. (Forskare)
1995/06/12 → 2025/08/24
Projekt: Forskning
Edgerton, M. (Forskare)
1985/10/21 → …
Projekt: Forskning
Edgerton, M. (kompositör)
Aktivitet: Föredrag eller presentation › Framträdande
Edgerton, M. (Gästföreläsare)
Aktivitet: Besök vid en extern institution › Forskning eller undervisning vid extern organisation
Edgerton, M. (kompositör)
Aktivitet: Föredrag eller presentation › Framträdande
Edgerton, M. (Roll ej angiven)
Aktivitet: Annan › Framträdande i media
Edgerton, M. (medlem av programkommitté)
Aktivitet: Deltagit i eller arrangerat evenemang › Arrangerat festival/utställning/konsert/föreställning
Edgerton, M. (Mottagare), 2023 dec. 11
Pris: Pris (inklusive medaljer och utmärkelser)
Edgerton, M. (Mottagare), 2023 nov. 11
Pris: Pris (inklusive medaljer och utmärkelser)