With apologies for cross-posting
Putting the Graphic in Music- Notation, Analysis and Performance
A symposium at the Senate House Library, University of London (30 November - 12.30-8.30pm)
in association with Royal Northern College of Music, Contemporary Music Research Unit Goldsmiths, School of Advanced Study and Institute of Musical Research
Where does one draw the figurative line between art and art music?
Since at least the 14th-century ars nova, composers have questioned the visual boundaries of the musical score. From the heart-shaped chanson of Baude Cordier in the Chantilly Codex to the Hörpartitur created in 1970 by Rainer Wehinger for György Ligeti's Artikulation, graphic uses of notation have expanded the available palette for composers beyond the limitations of the 5-line staff.
This one day symposium will explore issues in graphic notation and visual music, the aesthetics and philosophy of notation, the relationship between notation, interpretation and improvisation, and the boundaries between inscription and pictorial art. It will bring together perspectives from the performer and editor to the composer, from the art historian to the musicologist.
A concert of music using graphic notation by the Vocal Constructivists featuring a multi-media installation of Nir Bitton follows from 7pm-8pm.
Free tickets for the Symposium: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/putting-the-graphic-in-music-notation-analysis-and-performance-tickets-18573897026
Free tickets for the Concert: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vocal-constructivists-tickets-18574049482
Full details of the event can be found at http://senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/2015/11/23/putting-the-graphic-in-music/
Programme
12.30-12.45 - Welcome -Colin J.P. Homiski (Senate House Library)
12.45-2.15 -Panel 1 - Analysing graphic notation in European art music
Dr David Cline (SAS), Prof Graeme Boone (Ohio State University) Dr Brian Inglis (Middlesex), Chair: Dr Paul Archbold (Kingston)
2.15-2.30 - Coffee/Pause
2.30-3.30 - Keynote - Prof Simon Shaw-Miller (Bristol)
'A Question and a few remarks on art, music, bicycles, Kandinsky and Marcel Duchamp'
3.30-3.45 - Coffee/Pause
3.45-4.45 -Panel 2--Analysing graphic notation from the perspective of composer, performer, editor. What is the role of the interpreter and how does notation impact upon that interpretation?
Prof Jane Alden (Trinity College Dublin), Dr Lauren Redhead (Canterbury), Prof. Philip Thomas (Huddersfield), Elaine Gould (Senior Music Editor, Faber Music), Celia Springate (singer, London) Chair: Dr Brian Inglis (Middlesex)
4.45-5-Pause
5-6.30 -IMR International Composer Seminar Series-Prof. Brian Ferneyhough (Stanford) discusses his recent music with Prof. Roger Redgate (Goldsmiths)
6.30-7-Reception/Pause
7.00-8pm-Concert by the Vocal Constructivists (Jane Alden, Director)
Performing music of:
Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) Scratch Music
Bogus³aw Schäffer (b. 1929), Lektura
Wojciech Kosma (b. 1981) Songbook
Christian Wolff (b. 1934) For 1, 2 or 3 people
Tomasz Sikorski (1939-1988) Autozapis [Autorecording]
Bogus³aw Schäffer (b. 1929) Grafiki
8.00pm--Reception
Part of the Senate House Library Illumination Series (www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/illumination<http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/illumination>)
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