ORCIM CALENDAR 2011
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ORCiM RESEARCH FESTIVAL 2011
X-PERIMENT - an international dialogue on Artistic Experimentation in Music
Orpheus Research Centre in Music [ORCiM] Ghent, Belgium 5-8 October 2011
The Orpheus Research Centre in Music [ORCiM] is pleased to announce that its Third Annual Research Festival will take place in October 2011. This Festival will focus upon Artistic Experimentation and promises an unprecedented atmosphere of exciting and stimulating interaction, celebrating what is happening in artistic research in music on a global scale. ORCiM has opened up its Third Annual Research Festival into a shared creative and critical forum with the Pentacon Group *.
*Initiated in 2010, Pentacon is a strategic collaboration between five forward-looking conservatoires on three continents. By defining five domains of action (New Pedagogies, Professional Development, Engaging Communities, Artistic Research and Music Technologies), Pentacon seeks to:
- Identify and implement appropriate pedagogical approaches for the 21st century
- Prepare students for successful professional lives in contemporary musical environments
- Engage communities, responding to the many relationships between music & people
- Develop & implement research agendas with both academic rigour and artistic integrity
- Optimise the use of technology for creating, learning, researching & disseminating music.
PENTACON - Partner institutions
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama (London, U.K.)
• Schulich School of Music, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
• Royal Conservatoire The Hague (The Netherlands) with its link to the Orpheus Institute (Ghent, Belgium)
• Sibelius Academy (Helsinki, Finland)
• Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia)
Besides offering valuable inspiration to musician-scholars keen to attend and experience the fresh understanding and new questions that artistic research generates, the Festival will help to delineate future directions for ORCiM as it moves towards the culmination of its artistic experimentation project and looks beyond it to new opportunities to bring artistic researchers together.
X-PERIMENT - an international dialogue on artistic experimentation in music
ORCiM's current three-year theme of Artistic Experimentation is at the heart of the Research Festival. Experimentation is omnipresent in artistic practice and in the processes of music making. Artistic experimentation encompasses the actions that an artist undertakes in developing and constantly renewing personal artistic identity and expertise. Exploring this field has the potential to give greater insight into how art unfolds, and opens new possibilities for artistic practice and reception.
The joint Orpheus Research Centre/Pentacon Festival will celebrate a unique interaction of ORCiM researchers with guest presenters and performers from the five Pentacon institutions. In preparation for it, the Pentacon members have been invited to reflect upon, and react to, ORCiM's research agenda of artistic experimentation, but refracting this through their own, particular research strengths. Their reactions will take the form of performances, presentations, talks and public concerts. Research Fellows from ORCiM, as well as guest speakers, will share aspects of their latest artistic developments and insights, and will draw fresh stimulus from the cross-fertilization of ideas that emerge.
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The festival took place from Wednesday October 5, (12:30hrs.) through Saturday October 8, 2011 (13:30hrs.) Want to know more? download the festival programme.
The Foundation for Scientific Research Belgium (FWO) granted funding assistance for
the organisation of this International Research Festival.
Scientific committee: Prof. Dr. Kathleen Coessens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)/ Orpheus Institute), Prof. Dr. Erik Myin (University of Antwerp (UA)), a. o.
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Experimentation in the Context of Performance Practice |
Orpheus Research Centre in Music [ORCiM] 27-28 April 2011, Ghent Belgium
The third International ORCiM Seminar organised at the Orpheus Institute offered an opportunity for an international group of contributors to explore specific aspects of ORCiM's research focus: Artistic Experimentation in Music. The theme of the conference was: Experimentation in the Context of Performance Practice.
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In Western music, 'experimentation' is usually associated with composition and improvisation, despite the fact that many diverse experimental practices happen in the field of performance. However, performers of all styles and periods of music have used modes of experimentation in their preparation for performance and in the act itself. Strangely, this important factor in the creativity of performance practice remains essentially private and undiscussed, being barely acknowledged beyond the rehearsal room.
This two-day international seminar aimed at exploring the complex role of experimentation in the context of performance practices and the artistic possibilities that such practices yield for performers, composers and listeners. Three main perspectives were adopted: a historical approach revealing experimental performance practices from the past, a practical approach that takes the ‘skilled body' as its point of departure, and finally, an open-ended approach that challenges state-of-the-art practices in the field of music performance.
Within such a general context, particular interests or questions included:
- Which aspects of performance allow for experimentation?
- How does experimentation 'between' performances (from performance to performance) work?
- How does experimentation through collaboration (e.g. chamber music) work?
- Is the use and influence of non-musical elements an important factor in experimental performance practices?
- What are the relationships between experimentation and improvisation?
- How does experimentation occur in the daily practicing process?
- What are the tensions between 'fidelity to the score' and individuation of performance?
- The seminar will be relevant for musicians and graduate students working in areas of research linked to musical practice. Themes related to all aspects of the seminar topic are welcome. The principal requirement for submissions is that they illuminate some aspect of the broad area of 'artistic experimentation', contributing to greater insight into how art unfolds, and opening new possibilities for artistic practice and reception.
Keynote lecture: Paul Roberts - Professor of Keyboard, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, U.K.
For more information on the presenters, download the schedule.
Organising Committee
ORCiM Research Fellows Paulo de Assis, Darla Crispin, and Hans Roels.
For more information, please contact the Orpheus Institute's Activities & Communication Manager: joyce.desmet@orpheusinstituut.be