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DESCRIPTION:About This Talk\n
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 Composer Michael Matthews has spent over thirty years writing music, 
 and for the past thirteen years has pursued fine-art abstract photogr
 aphy as a parallel practice. In this talk he traces the overlap betwe
 en the two disciplines, organizing the conversation around three conc
 epts that composers and photographers share: Form (shape, structure, 
 repetition, tension and release), Colour (timbre and harmony in music
 ; tonal and chromatic palette in a photograph), and Density (texture,
  space, silence, and pace). The presentation will draw on examples fr
 om his own scores and photographs — including a survey of his a
 bstract images from 2013 to the present and Gibbous Moon, his photo-a
 nd-poetry collaboration with Canadian poet Dennis Cooley. The talk in
 cludes short musical excerpts and closes with Q&A.\n
 About Michael Matthews\n
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 Michael Matthews is a Canadian fine-art abstract photographer and com
 poser, based in Victoria, British Columbia. A recent member of the Vi
 ctoria Camera Club, Michael’s path to photography began in chil
 dhood — his father and older brother were both dedicated amateu
 r photographers, and Matthews worked alongside his father in the dark
 room, an early apprenticeship in looking closely at images. That thre
 ad went dormant for decades while he built a career in music, then re
 surfaced in 2013, when he began pursuing abstract photography in earn
 est as a parallel practice.\n
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 His abstract work has since been exhibited in Minneapolis, Austin, Sa
 n Antonio, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Berlin. In 2021 he collaborate
 d with Canadian poet Dennis Cooley on Gibbous Moon, a book pairing hi
 s photographs with Cooley's poetry, published by At Bay Press. He is 
 currently developing a new photo book and building out his online por
 tfolio.\n
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 Matthews's other life is as a composer: he holds a Ph.D. in compositi
 on from North Texas State University, taught for 27 years at the Univ
 ersity of Manitoba (now Professor Emeritus), and is a Fellow of the R
 oyal Society of Canada. His music has earned commissions and awards a
 cross North America and Europe, including a residency at the Rockefel
 ler Foundation's Bellagio Center. He often speaks about the concepts 
 — form, colour, density — that his two practices share.\n
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 Event URL: https://www.victoriacameraclub.ca/Events/View/b776ec38-b85
 0-4d80-a016-1046047c25d1\n
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 Event location: ZOOM Meeting - link to be provided\n
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 Location description:\n
 Meetings will take place virtually via the ZOOM tool. The link will b
 e posted under the Members Only tab, the day prior to the event.
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SUMMARY:Inspire Series. Images and Music: Abstraction as a Unifying El
 ement in my Work with Michael Matthews
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