Pond Study: An Exploration of the Details Below the Surface of Ann Southam’s Spatial View of Pond

Minimalist intersections (2024) [pp. 31-48]

AUTHOR(S) / АУТОР(И):  Twila Bakker

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DOI: 10.46793/MinInters.031B

ABSTRACT / САЖЕТАК:

The late Canadian composer, Ann Southam (1937–2010) is often paraphrased for linking her minimalist-process music with the life-sustaining processes common in women’s work. Those were actions that occurred daily for survival, including activities such as knitting and weaving. In much of her so-called “minimalist” output, Southam herself wove together two different compositional sensibilities – twelve-tone music and minimalism – with the commonality of their underlying processes. Utilising compositional documents from the Ann Southam Fonds housed at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Canada and formal analysis, this chapter explores the processes developed by Southam through the many revisions of her work Spatial View of a Pond, after a painting by Aiko Suzuki, and follows the ripples of influence the work has created through dance and other artistic mediums.

KEYWORDS / КЉУЧНЕ РЕЧИ:

Ann Southam, Canada, minimalism, twelve-tone, Aiko Suzuki, Peggy Baker, Rina Fraticelli, sketch study, Order of Canada, matrix, ArrayMusic, feminist music

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