ORCiM Festival 2010: "Unexpected variations"

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 A total of almost two years’ intensive research in-and-through musical practice by the members of the Orpheus Research Centre in Music [ORCiM] culminates in the second ORCiM Festival of research, music and ideas.  Through performances, presentations, talks and two public concerts, Research Fellows from ORCiM as well as guest speakers will share aspects of their cutting-edge insights. Besides offering valuable inspiration to musician-scholars keen to experience the fresh understanding and new questions that artistic research generates, the Festival will set out the future directions for ORCiM.

The unifying theme for the 2010 edition of the ORCiM festival is ‘unexpected variations’.

Variation, as a concept as well as a form, is widely dispersed and deeply embedded in artistic practice: it relates explicitly or implicitly to concepts such as ‘difference’, ‘innovation’ and ‘identity’ - all crucial to, and typical of, artistic expression. It is the qualifying ‘unexpected’ in the title of the ORCiM-festival which points to the new opportunities and impulses for musicians that present themselves through the emerging field of artistic research and in the discipline-specific research environment that is supporting it. 

The ORCiM festival 2010 will feature several compositions that reflect the variation principle, ranging from Beethoven’s well-known Diabelli Variations to new work by composers such a Richard Karpen, Juan Parra, William Brooks and others. In each case, conceptual and embodied understandings will be explored in terms of how they interact with sounding materials and lead to unexpected possibilities. 


Titles of contributions include:

* On Schnittke’s second piano sonata
* From hermeneutics to eroticism in artistic research
* On different modalities of a musician’s listening
* For prepared pianist: meeting the challenge of programming Cage’s prepared piano pieces
* On the subject of authorship
* Gilles Deleuze-Helmut Lachenmann: the conditions of creation and the Haecceity of music material
* On the distinction between ‘test’ and ‘experiment’
* Variations on Score Calendar by Allen Kaprow
* On Alvin Lucier’s ‘I’m sitting in a room’
* Synoptic Formal Analysis and Musical Performance* From Parody to Transfiguration: Beethoven's "Diabelli" Variations

(Keynote speech by William Kinderman -U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

The ORCiM Research Festival in Music takes places from Wednesday evening September 15, 2010 through Friday September 17, 2010.

The number of participants is limited, so please mark these dates in your agenda and register in time.

Registration until September 6, 2010 HERE

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