Event overview
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Hosted by the Contemporary Music Research Unit (CMRU)
Conference: Compositional Aesthetics and the Political
Confirmed Keynote speakers:
Professor Mathias Spahlinger, Berlin
Response: Professor Max Paddison (Durham University)
Dr Bernadette Buckley (Politics Dept, Goldsmiths)
Response: Dr Dimitris Exarchos (Music Dept. Goldsmiths)
Professor Vladimir Tarnopolsky (Centre for Contemporary Music, Moscow Conservatory)
Response: Professor Roger Redgate (Head of CMRU, Music Dept, Goldsmiths)
Keynote performers:
Mark Knoop and Aisha Orazbayeva (extension by Mathias Spahlinger)
Kreutzer Quartet - to include a performance by Peter Sheppard-Skaerved of Nono's 'La Lontanaza' for violin and electronics
For more information and to download the schedule, go to the tumblr site.
Twitter: #CAP2015
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The increasing growth of the field of Music and Politics has recently seen quite a few turns in Music Studies, materialized in articles, books, and journals. The natural tendency to themes such as feminism, post-colonialism, the culture industry, war, censorship, resistance, etc., have irreversibly affected thinking about music and music-making of several genres, including that of ‘contemporary classical’. However, perhaps as a reaction to traditional musicology (with its insistence on the musical work and on authorship), the study of compositional practices against contemporary political dimensions, has hitherto received less scholarly attention. In the—ostensibly distant—sixties, figures like Xenakis or Nono represented two typical examples of politicized compositional attitudes: the former’s radical abstraction was a coup against the dominance of serialism, the latter’s thematization of textuality and location constituted gestures of resistance. Their epigones still produce work that challenges traditional conceptions (including those of their progenitors); this symposium’s foremost aim is to advance such contemporary practices. One such example is the impact that (free) improvisation has had on recent composition. To the extend that improvisation is the correlative of composition (as ‘material’, listening attitude, style, etc.), this symposium aims to examine both creative practices in their political dimension—either explicit or implied. Thus, this gathering will focus primarily on practice-based research, its underlying politics, the explicit or implicit theme of the political, and how these translate into to the praxis of composition.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 20 Feb 2015 | 10:30am - 6:00pm | |
| 21 Feb 2015 | 10:30am - 6:00pm | |
| 22 Feb 2015 | 10:30am - 6:00pm |
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