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INTERNATIONAL ORPHEUS ACADEMY 2012

 

EXPERIMENTATION VERSUS INTERPRETATION

 

International Orpheus Academy for Music & Theory 2012

26 through 28 March, 2012

 

The year 2012 will see the Orpheus Institute's tenth edition of its "International Orpheus Academy for Music and Theory". During three days, internationally respected performers, composers, and guest lecturers met (pre)professional musicians, music theorists and musicologists from all over the world. The academy's aim is to allow a select crowd to work on the highest possible level for the sessions to be perceived as rewarding for all attendants and speakers.

 

 

The academy 2012 will challenge the concept of ‘interpretation’ in the field of music performance, and investigate musical ‘experimentation’ as an alternative path. Such a challenge involves the concept of ‘work’ and has implications in the fields of ‘notation’, ‘hermeneutics’, editorial concepts (such as the ‘Urtext’), as well as with the broader relationship with the past.

 

Some of the questions that will be addressed during the Academy include the following:

 

  • What is ‘interpretation’ in music performance (also ‘staging’) today?
  • What might be ‘experimentation’ in music performance?
  • How can a performer experiment through practice?
  • Do aspects of experimental practices underlie the conventional interpretation paradigm?
  • How can ‘experimentation’ concretely challenge ‘interpretation’?
  • What can music performance add to an understanding of the role of experimentation in knowledge societies?

 

Invited guest faculty for this Academy:

 

  • Hermann Danuser (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
  • Frederic Rzewski (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Thomas Christensen (University of Chicago, U.S.A.)
  • Anders Hultqvist (Göteborg, Sweden)

 

 

Download the Schedule Orpheus Academy 2012.

Download the Academy flyer.

 

 

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

 

 

   
   

 

De Orpheus Academy 2012 vindt plaats in het Orpheus Instituut te Gent van maandag 26 maart (10u00) 2012 tot en met woensdag 28 maart (13u00) 2012.
 

Download Inschrijvingsformulier 

 


Deadline: 12/03/2012  NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE !

Deze ‘Academy' staat open voor slechts een 30-tal deelnemers.

 

Inschrijvingsgeld: 175€ (€100: bachelor/master <27)
Prijs omvat ook koffiepauzes en lunches. Gelieve op te merken dat het Academy dinner op Woensdag 28 maart 2012 vervangen werd door een lunch om 13u00. 

 

 

 

 

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