perhaps of interest to some, or colleagues.
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ORCiM SEMINAR "SOUND AND SCORE"
22-23 April 2010
http://www.orpheusinstituut.be/en/research-centre/academic-year-2009-2010#sound
As an art form based upon sound, music deals with complex semiotic
translations and interactions between different perceptual senses and
systems of signification: sound, score, meaning. Primarily, music has
to do with the invisible, with forces that cannot be seen but that
touch listeners in very compelling ways. However, in many cultures -
Western and non-Western - music has been codified in notated form,
originating complex written artefacts - the score -. Here, different
signs and symbols not only allow for the retention and transmission
of certain elements of the musical fabric but also liberate forces
that are not conceivable without graphic representations.
This seminar introduces the act of notating as an important and
pivotal activity within the rich array of activities that constitute
musical practice. The two-day international seminar aims at exploring
the intimate relation(s) between sound and score and the artistic
possibilities that this relationship yields for performers, composers
and listeners. Three main perspectives will be adopted: a conceptual
approach that allows for contributions from other fields of enquiry
(history, musicology, semiotics, etc.), a practical one that takes
the skilled body as its point of departure and finally an
experimental approach that challenges state-of-the-art practices.
Within such a general context, particular interests or questions include:
- How are notational practices formed and interpreted over time?
- What are the semiotical implications of sound codification?
- The score as a point of departure or as a rigidly fixed
codification of intentions?
- How does the performer relate/interact to/with the score? What
freedom/responsibility is left for the performer, the reader of the
score?
- The performers own annotations on the score.
- Which aspects of sound and music are not reducible to any graphic
codification?
- Other ways of mediating between composer and performer
The seminar will be relevant for musicians and graduate students
working in all areas of research linked to musical practice. Themes
related to all aspects of the seminar topic are welcome.
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This international seminar takes place at the Orpheus Institute from
April 22, 2010 to April 23, 2010 from 12.00 until 6.30 p.m. and from
9.30 a.m. until 4.00 p.m.
Proposals for presentations are to be sent to the Orpheus Institute
(i...@orpheusinstituut.be) before February 1, 2010
Registration as participants is possible until April 14, 2010.
Admission: 50 euros; fulltime students pay 25 euros. Fees include
dinner on Thursday and lunch on Friday. Participants whose proposals
are accepted do not pay the admission fee.
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