Description
AbstractIn "The Leaves That Hung But Never Grew" the musicians are not the only performers. Furthermore, the concert visitor is not just a listener. Even more: the concert visitors are involved in the performance. The smartphones or tablets of the listeners, as soon as they connect with the Wifi network in the same room, are quickly converted to "instruments". This is made possible by a web app on the smartphone. In this way, the spectators are able to interact proactively with the orchestra by reading projected symbols.
Research Day Musical Language
March 12th, 2019 | 09.30 - 13.00 | Small Concert Hall (070)
“It is in the nature of things - and it is this which determines the uninterrupted march of evolution in art quite as much as in other branches of human activity - that epochs which immediately precede us are temporarily farther away from us than others which are more remote in time.” (I. Stravinsky, An Autobiography, 1936). This quote on the perception of musical language reveals a fascinating paradigm: the older something is, the more it can be tested, and the more something is tested, the more (an opinion on) it can be validated. It is in this field of action that the Research Group Musical Language operates, constantly pushing the boundaries of compositional idioms, testing and validating the old and the new in order to elevate the art of music creation. In this regard, it is not surprising that the presented lectures cover a large array of topics, spanning from romanticism to micro-tonality, from spectral techniques in Jazz to multi-medial avant-garde. Though often interdisciplinary in approach - correlating with subjects such as music philosophy, psychology, musicology and music technology - each project maintains it’s artistic individuality. It is in this way that we aim to facilitate the uninterrupted march of evolution in musical language and help it venture into epochs which lie in the future.
| Period | 12 Mar 2019 |
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| Degree of Recognition | National |