ORPHEUS ACADEMY 2007

International Orpheus Academy for Music & Theory 2007
Wednesday, April 11 through Saturday April 14, 2007

The theme of the ´Orpheus Academy 2007´ was ‘Tempo, Meter, Rhythm. Time in Music after 1950´.
Performance aspects as regards the organisation of time were intermingled with compositional, music-theoretical, -historical and -esthetical dimensions during various lectures and workshops. Discussions and panels following the lectures invited a dynamic participation by all participants.

Six specialists considered the theme:

Bruce Brubaker (Pianist, New England Conservatory, Boston, U.S.A.)
"(Apologies to McLuhan and Baudrillard)/John Cage´s Allatonceness/Linear, Discontinuous, and Polyvalent Time"
"again minimalism again"

Pascal Decroupet (Professor in Musicology, Sophia-Antipolis University Nice, France)
"Rhythmic Cells, Durations, Groups: Different Concepts of Microlevel Time-organization in Serial Music and Their Consequences on Shaping Time on the Formal Level"
Lecture-performance (joint with Arne Deforce, live performance): "Mutual Conditioning: Temporal Interactions Between Electronics and Performers in ´Musique Mixte´ and Live Electronics"

Arne Deforce (Cellist, Drs. at the Orpheus Institute)
Lecture-performance (joint with Pascal Decroupet): "Mutual Conditioning: Temporal Interactions Between Electronics and Performers in ´Musique Mixte´ and Live Electronics"
Lecture-concert: "Composing Time Undisturbed within the Memory of Sound. A Critical Study of Morton Feldman´s Patterns in a Chromatic Field"

Mark Delaere (Professor Musicology, K .U. Leuven, Belgium)
"Tempo, Meter, Rhythm. Time in 20th Century Music"
"Tempo Relations in Contemporary Music"

Justin London (Professor, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, U.S.A.)
"The Perception and Cognition of Rhythm and Time"
"Temporality in Modern and Post-Modern Music: A Critique from Cognitive Aesthetics"

Ian Pace (Pianist, Cardiff University, U.K.)
"Making Possible the Irrational: Strategies and Aesthetics in the Music of Stockhausen, Cage, Ligeti, Xenakis, Ferneyhough, Barrett"
"Complexity as Imaginative Stimulant: Issues of Rubato, Barring, Grouping, Accentuation and Articulation in Contemporary Music, with Examples from Boulez, Carter, Feldman, Kagel, Sciarrino, Finnissy"

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Some pictures of the Academy in April 2007: