KIM FARRIS-MANNING

VORSTELLEN: To put forward, to introduce, to imagine

10/4/2025

UVic Press, 2019
Narratives of Memory, Migration, and Xenophobia in the European Union and Canada is the distinct culmination of an intensive cross-cultural academic endeavour that explores how memories of the past are intricately intertwined with present-day realities and future aspirations. The book is based on a range of experiences that stem from a summer field school focusing on landscapes of memory in Hungary, Germany, France, and Canada, in the context of migration and xenophobia. Contributors include Canadian and European academics; directors, researchers, and educators working at various European memorial sites; as well as graduate students from a wide range of disciplines. This cross-disciplinary investigation is based on a symposium as well as a series of concert performances in Europe and Canada highlighting the complex and multi-layered narratives of memory. The ultimate goal of this scholarly undertaking is to understand how agents of memory — including the music we listen to, the (his)stories that we tell, and the political and social actions that we engage in — create narratives of the past that allow us to make sense of ourselves in the present and to critically contest and challenge xenophobic and nationalistic renderings of political possibilities.
https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/bitstream/handle/1828/11314/CH13_Narratives_2019.pdf?sequence=17&isAllowed=y
***Create a link to Engrenages, that’s the piece this article talks about!

10/4/2025

2021, commissioned by the Canadian Music Centre
Using my piece “King of Chlorophyll” as a case study, I explore my approach to score-making as a dialogue between composer, performer, and audience and as extending beyond what is on the page.
https://on.cmccanada.org/scores-syntax-soft-skills/