Episode 4: Marimba Performance, 2027 C21MP Conference and the Social Dimension of Song Writing

Our guests on this episode are Márton Gábor Szives, a percussionist, researcher and teacher at the Doctoral School of Arts of the University of Pécs, supported by the Hungarian Academy of Arts, Wellington Gordon, the chair of the 2027 C21MP Conference, a bassist, audio engineer and educator at the Commercial Music programme at Florida State University, and Remy Haswell-Martin from the University of West London and Adam Martin from the University of Huddersfield, co-authors of a forthcoming Element in the 21st Century Music Practice series on "Creative Interactions in Collaborative Songwriting". We start by discussing the developments in contemporary Marimba performance technique that led Márton to his current PhD and he discusses that process of collaboration with ten composers in which he explored these new techniques for them as a way to stimulate their ideas for new compositions. Wells Gordon participated in the first C21MP conference and will be talking about hosting the 2027 conference at Florida State University and how we're going to be exploring Music and the Extended Mind. Remy and Adam discuss some of the social factors that affect collaborative song writing - looking at them from a phenomenological and affect theory perspective to explore both the positive and negative emotions that can have an impact on collaborative song writing. This episode was presented by Stefanie Barschdorf and Simon Zagorski-Thomas. The production team were Stefanie Barschdorf, Luiz Mouro, Maciej Kierzkowski, Gittit Pearlmutter and Simon Zagorski-Thomas - with a special thanks to Gittit for getting the edit ready on time.