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What does ‘musical material’ mean today?
Developments after Adorno
4 Jul 08
What does ‘musical material’ mean today?
Developments after Adorno.
This conference seeks to bring together all types of composers and musicologists to discuss notions of ‘musical material’. It will address how this concept has developed since Adorno by examining its relationship to both the composition of, and the writing about, recent music. How have competing and dominant ideas affected developments in post-war composition and its subsequent reception? Or, how have musical compositions and the histories that are allied to them affected the development of analytical models and theoretical frameworks?
To register in advance your intention to come to this event please contact Roddy Hawkins(mus2rwmh@leeds.ac.uk) or the RMA Student Liaison Officer Susan Bagust (sjbagust@onetel.com).
Programme
10am |
Registration |
10.30am |
Keynote 1:
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11.45am |
Coffee Break |
12pm |
Session 1: ‘Material and boundaries’ – (Chair: Roddy Hawkins) |
Jun Kai Pow (KCL, London) – Boulez’s Tel Quel Manifesto: From aléa to Mallarmé and après |
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Gordon Downie (UWE, Bristol) – Parametric de-coupling: material as bearer of content |
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| Edward Top (KCL, London) – Towards a Theory of Unlimited Compositional Semiosis |
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1.30pm |
Lunch |
2.30pm |
Session 2: ‘Multiple materials’ (Chair: Roddy Hawkins) |
Fiammetta Tarli (KCL, London) – Alexander Goehr, Adorno and musical material |
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Ian Pace (Dartington College of Arts) – Material as Archetype in Michael Finnissy's The History of Photography in Sound |
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| Joyce Shintani (Karlsruhe University of Art & Design, Germany) – The Body as Musical Material? From Stäbler to Miss Kittin |
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4pm |
Coffee Break |
| 4.15pm |
Keynote 2:
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5.30pm |
Close |