Biografie
Brandon Farnsworth works as an independent music curator based in Berlin, and as a research associate at the Zurich University of the Arts, where he also studied classical music performance and transdisciplinary studies. In 2020 he completed his doctoral degree in historical musicology at the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden with the publication "Curating Contemporary Music Festivals: A new Perspective on Music’s Mediation" (available via transcript Verlag). He has done projects with several music festivals including Ultima Festival Oslo, Montreal New Musics Festival, and Sonic Matter Zurich.
Publikationen / Diskografie / Ausstellungen / Werke
Books
Brandon Farnsworth, Anna Jakobsson, Vanessa Massera (editors). Taking the Temperature: Curating, Crisis, and Musical Diversity, 2nd revised edition. Zurich: On-Curating.org, 2021.
Brandon Farnsworth. Curating Contemporary Music Festivals: A New Perspective on Music’s Mediation. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2020.
Brandon Farnsworth, Anna Jakobsson, Vanessa Massera (editors). Taking the Temperature: Curating, Crisis, and Musical Diversity. Zurich: On-Curating.org, 2020.
Brandon Farnsworth, Rosanna Lovell (editors). “GRiNM x OnCurating Journal,” special issue, OnCurating no. 47 (September 2020). https://www.on-curating.org/issue-47.html.
Paolo Bianchi, Brandon Farnsworth, Martin Jaeggi, Jochen Kiefer, Dorothee Richter, Bitten Stetter (editors). ReVisiting Black Mountain. Zurich: Zurich University of the Arts, 2019.
Claudio Bucher, Brandon Farnsworth, Patrick Kull, and Michael Schindhelm. Why Hong Kong. Edited by Daniela Bär, Brandon Farnsworth, and Michael Schindhelm. Zurich: Zurich University of the Arts, 2014.
Articles
(in press) Brandon Farnsworth, Rosanna Lovell, “Gender Relations in New Music,” in Voices for Change in the Classical Music Profession: New ideas for tackling inequalities and exclusions, edited by Christina Scharff and Anna Bull (forthcoming 2022, Oxford University Press).
(in press) Brandon Farnsworth, “Why Curate Live Arts?” Turba: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation 1/2021.
(in submission) Brandon Farnsworth, “Contemporary Music and the Curatorial Turn: Surveying curatorial practices from curators-as-authors to institutional critique,” in Institutionalization in Music History, edited by Saijaleena Rantanen and Derek B. Scott (forthcoming, University of the Arts Helsinki).
(in press) Abi Bliss, Liz Dobson, Brandon Farnsworth, Heidi Johnson, Rosanna Lovell, Stellan Velloce, “Gender Relations in New Music (GRiNM) and Yorkshire Sound Women Network (YSWN): case studies in activism and organisation for change,” in The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond (forthcoming, Routledge).
Brandon Farnsworth, “Biennales and their Siblings: Towards an Interdisciplinary Discourse on Curating Performance.” OnCurating Journal no. 46 (June 2020): 253–263.
Brandon Farnsworth, “Zwei Festivals: Ein langer Blick auf Maerzmusik und die Münchner Biennale für Neues Musiktheater” (Two festivals cut short: A long look at the Maerzmusik festival and the Munich Biennale for New Music Theater). Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 2/2020 (June): 48-52.
Brandon Farnsworth. “’We have created a parody of these austere rituals which didn’t exist in the past’: Revisiting Music Education.” OnCurating Journal, no. 43 (December 2019): 80–85.
Brandon Farnsworth. “Where do we go from here?” Catalogue text. Last modified 30 January, 2018. https://blog.zhdk.ch/revisit/bmc-catalogue/.
As Managing/Associate Editor
Müller, Patrick, Nuria Krämer, and Brandon Farnsworth (editors). WITH: A Bookazine on Collaboration between Cultures, Art Forms, and Disciplines. Zurich: Zurich University of the Arts, 2017.
Bernhard Rietbrock, Dieter Mersch, Jan Thoben, Sabine Sanio, Brandon Farnsworth (editors). Alvin Lucier: Illuminated by the Moon. Zurich: Zurich University of the Arts, 2017.
Michael Schindhelm and Damian Christinger (editors). Happy Tropics No. 1. 2017. Zurich: Zurich University of the Arts.