Booking is now open for:
The Instrument in Musical Performance
Friday 16 March 2012
Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, University of London
IMR in association with Middlesex University
There has been little research about the role of the musical instrument in the generation of musical knowledge, and how interacting with an instrument shapes the thought processes behind musical practices. As the physics of different kinds of instruments, as well as the physiology and psychology of playing them have been investigated systematically, it has become important to engage in a methodical phenomenological enquiry regarding the musical instrument and its relationship with the performer. Exploring the nature of the ways the two are related is crucial not only for understanding what musical performance entails, but also for determining the conditions under which musical practices become research activities. While musicological discourse typically conflates different kinds of musical performers under the term ‘the performer’, as different musical instruments engender different phenomenologies of performance making, and by implication different kinds of performers, it is important to investigate how the experiences of different kinds of instrumentalists vary as musicians. The aim of this study-day is to explore the role of the musical instrument in the making of musical performances, and open up debate regarding the epistemological and aesthetic issues that musical instruments introduce.
Programme
(Abstracts are available on the IMR website)
10.00-10.30 Registration and coffee
Morning Session: Chair – Anthony Gritten
10.30-11.15 Mine Dogantan-Dack (Middlesex), 'The least expressive instrument' (Harold Bauer): A sketch for a phenomenology of pianism
11.15-12.00 Neil Heyde (RAM), Choreographing the instrument, body and ensemble
12.00-12.30 Thor Magnusson (Brighton), Epistemic tools: On dimension spaces in digital musical instruments
12.30-1.45 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session: Chair – Anthony Gritten
1.45-2.30 Anthony Rooley, 'Music is nothing more than a Decoration of Silence' (Marsilio Ficino, c.1485, Florence)
2.30-3.15 David Horne and Melinda Maxwell (RNCM), The Oboe: inside the instrument
3.15-3.45 Tea
3.45-4.30 Round Table
A booking form is available on the IMR website www.music.sas.ac.uk via a quick link form the 'booking now' section of the home page. Please book by 12 March.
Prof Dr Mine Dogantan Dack
(BA, BM, MM, MA, MA, MPhil, PhD)
Research Fellow, Music
School of Arts Education
Department of Performing Arts
Middlesex University
Trent Park
Bramley Road
London N14 4YZ
Tel: +44 (0)20 8411 5716
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CMPCP Associate
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Visiting Professor, IIAS
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