ORCIM SEMINAR
The Musician as Listener.
An international seminar on the act of listening in the musicians´ creative research process
Thu, May 22 and Fri, May 23, 2008
In the spring of 2007, Orpheus Institute launched its own Orpheus Research Centre in Music [ORCiM]. The Orpheus Research Centre focuses on practice-based research in music and addresses discipline-specific questions. By explicitly laying the foundations for this artistic research discipline, thereby developing the tools necessary for artistic research of the highest standard, ORCiM plays a unique role in the world of research and higher education of music.
The two-day international seminar on Creative Listening, organized by ORCiM has several aims:
- to contribute to the continuing dialogue on research in music, as viewed and performed by musicians themselves,
- to aid and enhance the use and effectiveness of specific tools within this kind of research,
- and to focus on the act of listening as a major research strategy in a wide variety of artistic research projects in music.
Practitioners from all music disciplines are invited to submit proposals for presentations (see practical information below for call for proposals) about artistic research projects in music, questioning or clarifying the practical consequences of the act of listening as a research strategy within their overall artistic research path. This listening can be the main focus of the research project to be presented, but it is equally interesting to try and elaborate on basic questions like:
- What does the concrete act of listening contribute to the artistic research project?
- How does personal listening experience influence one´s performances (compositions)?
- How do musicians (learn to) listen to themselves while performing?
- What does a musician, as a performer, composer or teacher, pay attention to in music?
Confirmed keynote speakers are: Cornelius De Bondt and Eric Clarke
Cornelis De Bondt studied composition and music theory at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (Netherlands). His composition teachers were Jan van Vlijmen and Louis Andriessen. In 1984, he concluded his study with the Prize for Composition. Since 1988, he has been teaching music theory at the Royal Conservatoire. In 2004, he started a new project of theory lessons for composition students called "The Technique of Beauty", an experimental class to explore the possibilities of designing tools for analysing beauty. In 2006 he was appointed composition teacher and coordinator for the theory for composition students.
Some of his major works: "Bint" for Hoketus (1979/80), the cycle "Het Gebroken Oor" (with "De Deuren Gesloten" and "Grand Hotel", 1984-1996), "De Tragische Handeling" for LOOS (1993), "Dame Blanche" for Walter van Hauwe and orchestra (1995), the cycle "Bloed" (1998-2002) and "Madame la Daufine" for orchestra (2004).
Eric Clarke has been appointed to the Heather Professorship at the Oxford University with effect from 1 October 2007. Professor Clarke will be a fellow of Wadham College. Before, Eric Clarke was Head of the Music Department at the University of Sheffield. Clarke is also Deputy Director of Research for the Arts and Humanities Division, and an Associate Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council´s Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM). He is a member of AHRC´s peer review college. Prof. Clarke is an Associate Editor of the journals "Music Perception" and "Musicae Scientiae", is on the editorial boards of Empirical Musicology Review, Music Analysis, and Radical Musicology, and is a consulting editor for Psychology of Music. Prof. Clarke´s research and teaching cover a number of areas within the psychology of music, music theory, and musical aesthetics/semiotics. He is the author of a recent monograph on listening, co-editor of a volume on empirical musicology, and has published 60 papers and book chapters on topics including expression in performance, the perception and production of rhythm, musical meaning, the relationships between music and language, music and the body and the analysis of pop music.
Practical Information
This seminar takes place at Orpheus Institute from May 22, 2008, to May 23, 2008, from 12.00 to 6.30 p.m., and from 9.30 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
Participants can register until May 8, 2008 through info@orpheusinstituut.be
The deadline to submit a proposal for presentations has expired!
People who sent in a proposal will receive news at the latest by March 13, 2008!
Admission: 50 euros; fulltime students pay 25 euros. (The fee includes coffeebreaks, dinner on Thursday and lunch on Friday) Participants whose proposals for presentations are accepted do not pay the admission fee.
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