Isabella Temperville, Professor Táhirih Motazedian
Hello Everyone,
If you have not already, I encourage you to use the following link to listen to the most recent episode of the TCC Podcast, featuring the composer Isabella Temperville and her album The Recusant’s Dream.
https://www.tccollaboration.com/31-the-recusants-dream-isabella-temperville/
I always love catching up with previous guests on a returning episode, and the featured work made this even more true. The Recusant’s Dream, for those who have not yet listened, is a continuation of “The Firebird Saga”, a multi-media, multi-decade work being constructed by Isabella. This work contains a fantasy lore and narrative, roughly based on biblical characters, with a sprawling number of intricacies and details (for a more specific breakdown, we go over it briefly in this episode and in great detail in the first). Re-immersing myself into Isabella’s constructed lore was a delight and, although the music is fine by itself, it is infinitely more fun to imagine the lore and story when listening to The Recusant’s Dream. I want to give another apology to Isabella, who has been very patient with me over the past months, for the pretty big delay in episode release. We recorded this most recent episode in the first week of January, so it has been sitting on my desktop for sometime begging to be edited and released (if you want to know more about the reason for the delay, I have a video posted on affiliated socials with the explanation). Regardless, it’s great to hear from Isabella again, and for listeners to be back into the land spawned from her creativity.
A very special thank you, again, to Isabella Temperville for coming back onto the podcast and for sharing her album The Recusant’s Dream.
I am excited to preview that the next episode of the TCC Podcast is going to feature a very special guest, Professor Táhirih Motazedian alongside her book Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film. This will be a first for the TCC, as Professor Motazedian is not a composer, and instead primarily a music theorist. In technicality, Albert Wheeler on Ep. 23 TCC Roundtable: Classical Canon was the first “only” theorist featured on the program, but Professor Motazedian is the first solo theorist feature. This is also the first work, the book Key Constellations, that is not a musical work to be featured on the podcast. I hope this is the first of more music theorist features, as to represent the partnership of composition and music theory on this program, it is only natural to expand the breadth of people involved!
I would be lying if there was not another reason as to why there is now featured music theorists on the TCC. Although I have been considering this for some time, as there are lots of professionals I would love to feature on the program, this was spurred by a class requirement for this Spring semester. In Professor Rachel Lumsden’s graduate Readings in Music Theory course at FSU, in lieu of a final paper, we are to interview a practicing theorist on both their opinions of the field and a piece of their published work (book, published articles, etc.). This sounded right up my alley, and it just so happened that I was reading Key Constellations, so the requirement and current interests came together in beautiful fashion. While at the 2024 Society for Music Theory meeting, I essentially impulse bought Kye Constellations after seeing Professor Motazedian win the Emerging Book Scholar Award. It was, and is, relevant to the research I have been working on, something we talk about in the coming episode.
So, in summary, if you want to know how someone goes from a NASA planetary scientist to award-winning published music theory professor, you won’t want to miss the upcoming episode with Professor Táhirih Motazedian alongside her book Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film. We also discuss a number of topics including the recent history/development of the field, the life-cycle of interest groups, how to find success in music academia, and much more! If interested, the following link is to the Amazon purchase page where Key Constellations is available for purchase, otherwise, stay tuned for the episode this coming Monday!
https://www.amazon.com/Key-
Again, don’t forget to listen to the most previous episode if you missed it, featuring the composer Isabella Temperville. Make sure to follow our social media links below and the podcast streaming platform of your choice to keep up-to-date on new episodes and blog posts from the TCC. Additionally, set your calendar and or streaming subscriptions to this coming Monday, March 17th, for the episode featuring Professor Táhirih Motazedian and her book Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film. You won’t want to miss it, and we’ll see you there!
- Aaron
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Aaron D'Zurilla
TCC Founder/Music Theorist
Hello, my name is Aaron D'Zurilla and I am the primary host and founder of the Theorist Composer Collaboration. I created the Theorist Composer Collaboration out of a love of the connection between the artist and their art. Music theory, in my view, is a lens and avenue in which to understand people and their experiences. Often, as music theorists, and individuals attempting to find success in a historically hierarchical field, we find ourselves turning-away from modern music and artists when choosing what to study. As many academics could attest, the decision to study or analyze a work goes beyond that simple decision. It is a choice to highlight, spotlight, platform, and even promote the continuation of a commodity or idea, even if it is in a critical light. While there is plenty of space for such scholarship, and new inventive work in the field of music theory is developed everyday across the world in numerous topics, there is a stark lack of attention to the new music of today.
My personal rationale can be surmised in that we should not wait for music to be 40,50,80+ years old to begin pondering the creation of the art of today. Why wait to engage with literal generations of new composers, creating worlds of novel sounds and experiences everyday across the world? Generally, when looking at where composers and their compositions find support, it is within the composition community, across academia, festivals and through online platforms specific to the field. The hope of the TCC is to expand the support for modern, living compositions outside of these ar… Read More
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