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With special thanks to Fiona Wilkes for allowing access to and permission to display the books, and to Liz Baird for all her help with staging the exhibitions. For further information about the books briefly mentioned here see J. Sellars, ‘Some Sixteenth-Century Editions of Ancient Philosophical Texts in Wolfson College Library’, Bodleian Library Record 26/1 (2013), 92-100. 119
Music is Everywhere by John Duggan, Creative Arts Fellow One question that I’m asked frequently is: ‘What do you actually do in your role as Creative Arts Fellow?’ It’s a good question. I have no teaching responsibilities and my research doesn’t involve visits to a laboratory, or sitting in the Bodleian poring over ancient manuscripts. My job description states that the College expects me ‘to contribute towards the cultural life of the College and to increase awareness of and interest in Music.’ I sometimes joke that the description is broad enough that I could probably get away with popping in for lunch every now and again, and wandering around the quads looking tortured and interesting. But where’s the fun in that? Actually, contributing to the cultural life of the College does involve a certain amount of dining because it is here that I get the opportunity to meet other Wolfsonians: Fellows, Research Fellows, graduates, technical and administrative staff. It is here, over food and wine, that we get to discuss the collaborative possibilities. During lunch I might find myself arguing the technical and aesthetic pleasures of the counter-tenor voice; over dinner it might be hearing about the Greek Cypriot folk tradition, or discussing the possibility of combining music with images from an electron microscope. Each term I put on at least one event, open to all members of College, which in some way illuminates an aspect of the world of music. In Michaelmas term, I kicked off my Fellowship with a talk based on the words of the American composer, John Cage: Music is everywhere, you just have to have the ears to hear it I wanted to encourage people to open their ears and listen. We humans have learned to screen out most of the data that bombards our senses. If we didn’t it would probably drive us to insanity. What’s interesting though – and what I think John Cage is driving at – is that this world of noise can become music when mediated through time and space. Sounds occur at particular moments and in particular places. Our finely honed gift for pattern recognition and our delight in spotting differences and anomalies can transform these seemingly random events into something that has (or appears to have) meaning. 120
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Contents page President and Fellows
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