Concentration(s):
Music
Honors in Music Thesis:
NO ONE IS DRIVING, EVERYONE IS RIDING: A text-based experimental vocal work
I used this project to build off my past work with improvisation-based open scores, conditioning the performers’ mindsets more than dictating the sounds themselves. Ben West and I performed two iterations of a duet for vocalist and instrumentalist, combining detailed imaginary landscapes, amplified soft vocal noises, live spectral analysis, and instrumental instructions that treated the vocalist’s output as a component of the score. We explored themes such as attention to bodily control as a compositional variable, the limits imposed and agencies granted by technological mediation, and the role and effects of performer improvisation.
Personal statement:
astrid hubbard flynn (they/them) is a composer, flutist, vocalist and scholar who grew up on occupied Dakota land (Saint Paul, Minnesota). Their mediums include staff notation, fixed and live electronic setups, and improvisation based in text and graphics. During their time in the Music Department, astrid composed for student groups and visiting professional ensembles, played flute in extracurricular ensembles, designed discussion sections on popular music, and took courses in composition, music analysis, musicology, ethnomusicology, and electronic instrument building. Outside music, astrid spent half a semester in Spain, and took courses in a wide range of departments including Africana studies and geology. astrid’s current projects include weird vocalizations in a free improvisation trio, and a forthcoming art-song for voice and piano.
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