Composer Kim Cunio: ’I wanted to write music that alludes to the destructive flight of this pandemic.’
Composer Kim Cunio: 'I wanted to write music that alludes to the destructive flight of this pandemic.' - A track which is billed as the sound of COVID-19 and can be played virtually has been recorded by musicians at The Australian National University (ANU). The track, Riches to Rags in Covid Time , is composed by the head of the ANU School of Music, Associate Professor Kim Cunio. The music, inspired by ragtime music popular during The Spanish Flu in the early 20th century, has been written for virtual piano as well as human musicians Associate Professor Cunio said the track not only references the last global pandemic affecting the world, the Spanish flu, when ragtime music was popular, but also speaks to our "contemporary virtual world". "COVID-19 is affecting all of us so profoundly. Like many of us I had personal and professional worlds that collided," he said. "The ANU School of Music where I work had a significant transition to make very quickly, and it required a lot of creative thinking to find a way to deliver a musical education in an online environment.
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