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Writing Inspired by Music: Thursday April 28 / Online Workshop with Rafi Zabor

  • 28 Apr 2022
  • 19:00 - 20:30
  • online (via Zoom)
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“Writing inspired by music”

a workshop about what writing can learn from music

with Rafi Zabor



Date: Thursday April 28, 19h CET (Zurich/Paris)  via Zoom


In a previous music-writing workshop the focus was on representing music, primarily but not exclusively in fiction, and how to bring it back alive from its world to our writer’s world of language. In this workshop Rafi would like to address but also broaden the scope to include what writers can learn from what music does and how it does it. Composed, improvised, or in a combination/alternation of the two. The feeling of music in the body transposed to language active and moving in you—he plays drums, so he comes into writing as a rhythm player, but that’s not the only way to go. Music has a stillness too, and cups the wine of silence. There will be a reading list, and a listening list, available beforehand, in order to establish a common context for discussion. He will welcome an advance look at the work of those attending, and he will assign a short assignment/exercise to further help give our one-day piece of time some firmer, common ground to stand on.


About Rafi:

Rafi Zabor’s first novel, set on the jazz scene, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. In the decades preceding that he lived around the USA and in a selection of international, mostly European cities, sometimes playing drums in a semi-professional way, and played on a few recordings. Eventually he started writing about (mostly) jazz for an American magazine called Musician, which filled in much of the background he would need for his novel The Bear Comes Home. He has also published a sort-of memoir, I, Wabenzi, and, lately, the sort-of thriller novel Street Legal, and is currently finishing a novel set in Paris in the 60s. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he is living there now.


Reading and Music

All participants will be sent a suggested reading list, plus the request to listen to 5 pieces of music before the workshop.


Please register on the GWG website, or contact

genevawriters@gmail.com


Zoom details TBA





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