Dr Claudia Molitor

Overview

Claudia Molitor is a composer and artist whose work hovers between music and sound art, extending across contemporary art practices, such as video and installation art. Exploring the role listening can play in our world as well as embracing collaboration as compositional practice is central to much of her practice. 

Some larger scale work includes Sonorama, an episodic work for a train journey, with Electra Productions, Turner Contemporary and the British Library, which received a British Composer Award; The Singing Bridge, installed at Somerset House and Waterloo Bridge during the Totally Thames festival; Walking with Partch for the Cologne based ensemble Musikfabrik at hcmf// (Huddersfield/UK); the headphone piece Auricularis Superior at the World Music Days in Tallinn (Estonia); the audio-visual installation Listen to my World which toured to Wilde Western (Kortrijk/Belgium), Spor (Aarhus/Denmark), hcmf//, Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens/Greece), Time of Music (Viitasaari/Finland) ; A Thousand Words for Weather produced and commissioned by Artangel, installed at Senate House Library and Fever, an eight trumpet and electronics work for The Monochrome Ensemble performed at hcmf// and Maerz Music (Berlin/Germany) and The unheard also glistens (Rainy Days Festival, Luxembourg).

Research Interests

Composition and sound art

Expanded notation

Interdisciplinary practices

Collaborative practices

Phenomenology of Listening

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