Seminar on The Musician’s Act of Creation 
April 23-24, 2009
 
Orpheus Institute – Orpheus Research Centre in Music
Korte Meer 12 ,9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Although creativity of some kind is present in even the most mundane
situations (such as shopping, cooking, plumbing ...), more sophisticated
expressions of it are often associated with the fields of art and literature.
Within these fields, creativity has acquired the status of an enigmatic,
unknowable process that ultimately leads to innovation and creation of
valuable works of art.
 
The TWO-DAY INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR on the MUSICIAN'S ACT OF
CREATION is organised by the ORPHEUS RESEARCH CENTRE in MUSIC.
The seminar has the aim to map musical creativity as a space having its own
set of characteristics within a broader and more general field of creativity. We
will zoom in on moments of musical creation, invention, discovery, conception,
constructs, imagination, etc.
 
Particular interests include:
-the different modes of creative expression in music (ranging from interpretation to 
composition and improvisation)
-creative strategies in musical practice (innovative strategies but also the documentation 
and elucidation of historical ones)
-creativity as a tool in artistic research projects (research as an ‘original’ contribution to 
knowledge and understanding)
-different fields of creative action in music (sound, body, form, etc.)
-artistic projects that focus on creativity as a field of action.
 
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
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Themes relating to all aspects of the seminar topic are welcome.
Deadline for PROPOSALS is MARCH 6, 2009
Download the call for presentations through Orpheus Institute’s website:
http://www.orpheusinstituut.be/en/research-centre/activities

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
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The seminar will be relevant for scholar-musicians and graduate students
working in all areas of research linked to musical practice.
The seminar takes place at Orpheus Institute Ghent, Belgium and starts on
Thursday April 23, 2009 12h, and closes on Friday April 24, 2009 16h.
REGISTRATION as a participant is possible until APRIL 16, 2009
 
REGISTRATION
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Registration fee: €50
Full-time Students: €25
The fee includes morning and afternoon teas, Thursday seminar dinner, Friday
lunch and a seminar satchel.
 
Note: presenters do not pay the admission fee!
 
TRAVEL & ACCOMMODATION
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Participants should arrange their own travel arrangements and accommodation.
 
CONTACT
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-For practical information concerning this seminar you may contact the
Orpheus Institute’s Activities & Communication Manager:
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-Organising Committee
Kathleen Coessens, Darla Crispin, Hendrik Vanden Abeele and Joost Vanmaele
 
Orpheus Research Centre in Music (ORCiM)
Orpheus Institute
Korte Meer 12
B-9000 Ghent
Belgium
+32 9 330 40 81
 
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