Ursula Kwong-Brown - Part 3

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Episode 124: Ursula Kwong-Brown - Part 3
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In this week’s episode, we talk to Ursula Kwong-Brown about her work with multimedia, setting text to music, and art as a response to trauma. If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Ursula Kwong-Brown, check her out here: https://www.ursulakwongbrown.com/. This episode was originally recorded in February 2024.
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Intro music: “Trifolium” by Gabriela Ortiz, performed by E4TT (Ilana Blumberg, violin; Abigail Monroe, cello; Margaret Halbig, piano), as part of “Below the Surface: Music by Women Composers,” January 29, 2022
Outro music: “Lake Turkana” by Marcus Norris, performed by E4TT (Margaret Halbig, piano), as part of “Alchemy,” October 15, 2021
Transcription courtesy of Otter.ai.
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Producer, Host, and E4TT co-founder: Nanette McGuinness
Co-producer and Audio Engineer: Stephanie M. Neumann
Podcast Cover Art: Brennan Stokes
Interns: Renata Volchinskaya, Sam Mason, Hannah Chen, Addy Geenen, Yoyo Hung-Yu Lin

Curious to hear a little music from our guest Ursula Kwong-Brown, who we spoke to in our most recent episode, check out the world premiere of the work she just wrote for us, which we are performing on our season opening concert November 8.

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1. Ursula Kwong-Brown - Part 3 (00:00:00)

2. In this week's episode, we continue our conversation with Ursula Kwong-Brown, who we spoke to in February 2024. (00:00:35)

3. Can you talk about incorporating multimedia in your work as in your Reflections on Rothko, for example? (00:00:43)

4. So I Should Have Taken the Train, which is for prepared piano, electronics and spoken text. It's a horrifying text and equally chilling composition. But it's not, sadly, it's not that atypical in experience. How did the idea of composing it arise?... (00:03:45)

5. Do you want to talk about the trouble you were having at UC Berkeley? Or would you rather not? (00:06:39)