Arts
Derek Douglas Carter (b.1994) is a composer, conductor, and artist from Illinois. While pursuing a BM in Music Composition and Theory at Illinois State, D. Carter collaborated with poets, directors, choreographers, and musicians to create new interdisciplinary works of art while also founding a music ensemble to promote music from living composers to foster an interest in contemporary music in the local community. Now finishing a MM in Music Composition at University of Louisville, D. Carter is studying composition with Steve Rouse and Krzysztof Wołek and will begin pursuing a graduate conducting degree with Kimcherie Lloyd. Through the work with the composers collective/experimental trio AmiEnsemble, D. Carter has continued to collaborate with more artists to create experimental new work, often incorporating text and speech in concert settings as well as theatrical elements in solo and small chamber pieces. Derek Douglas Carter: @derekdouglascarter Artists and works mentioned throughout the podcast: Black Angels William Lamkin Cartographies of Silence-Adrienne Rich: poetrying.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/ca…drienne-rich/ Mieko Kanno-Sibelius Academy Helmut Lachenmann Jessie Marino-Endless Shrimp Jennifer Walshe The New Discipline-Manifesto: www.borealisfestival.no/2016/the-new-…fer-walshe-2/ Riley Leech Krzysztof Wolek William Carpenter-Buddy Crime Douglas Kearney Kendrick Lamar Cullyn Murphy Shakespeare Goethe Sappho Fragment Gertrude Stein Guillome Appolinaire Pablo Neruda Carlo Gesualdo Theme Music: Rim Shot by Erykah Badu