ME21 NEWS (2013-2018)

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Lucia D’Errico has been invited by Orpheus Institute research fellow dr. Luk Vaes to give a presentation at the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) in Brussels. The research project Powers of Divergence has been presented to the students of the programme of the Advanced Research Studios.

The abstract book of the Second International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research DARE 2017 is available online. The conference, which will take place next week at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, will host 10 keynote speakers, 50 presentations, 1 concert and 7 installations.

https://view.publitas.com/orpheus-instituut/dare-2017-booklet/page/1

The two volumes of the book The Dark Precursor, edited by Paulo de Assis and Paolo Giudici, have been published by Leuven University Press. The forty-eight chapters in this publication present a kaleidoscopic view of different fields of knowledge and artistic practices, exposing for the first time the diversity and richness of a world situated between artistic research and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

http://upers.kuleuven.be/en/book/9789462701182

Paulo de Assis gives a Keynote Lecture for the Honours Class, Leiden University (NL) on Music and Politics.

Inspired by Gilles Deleuze’s Postscript on the Societies of Control, Nietzsche’s second Untimely Meditation, and Jacques Rancière’s Emancipated Spectator, Paulo de Assis unravels some of the dominant power relations affecting the performance of Western music, proposing alternative avenues for an emancipated performer—someone who, based upon the notion of ‘dissensus’, operates a redistribution of the sensible.

The lecture will take place 7.11.2017, 19.00, at the Lipsius Building, Cleveringaplaats 1, 2311 Leiden (NL).

ME21’s doctoral student Lucia D’Errico has been invited to present her project in the context of the ARTikulationen conference held at KUG, Graz (AT). The presentation revolved around the practice of “divergent performances” developed within this sub-project of ME21. For the full program of the conference, visit http://doctorartium.kug.ac.at/pdf/ARTikulationen2017Programme.pdf

Saturday, June 24, 14:30-18:30

The Orpheus research cluster MusicExperiment21 increasingly developed a component of ‘staging compositions’, and the work of Romeo Castellucci has functioned as an important reference to the team. This study day with an expert on his work, will present and discuss Castellucci’s aesthetics and techniques. 

Joao Francisco Figueira is an architect (studies in Oporto and Venice, PhD in Helsinki), professor of architecture at Lisbon University, and a researcher on the value and power of “images”. He is the series editor of YMAGO, having edited and published books by Georges Didi-Huberman, Jacques Ranciere, Daniel Arrasse, Horst Bredekamp, Hans Belting, Viktor Stoichita, and Aby Warburg, a.o.. He follows the work of Romeo Castellucci since two decades and has given presentations on his work throughout Europe. 

MusicExperiment21 and Ensemble Interface recorded all the new six pieces especially composed for the Diabelli Machines project, including pieces by Juan Parra C., Tiziano Manca, David Gorton, Lucia D’Errico, Paolo Galli, and Bart Vanhecke.

Listen to Bart Vanhecke’s “Commentaire XX”:

Ensemble Interface
Agnieszka Kopwrowska-Born, percussion
Andrea Nagy, bass clarinet
Anna D’Errico, piano
Bettina Berger, bass flute
Christoph Mathias, cello
Marieke Berendsen, violin

Paulo de Assis, direction

Juan Parra C., recording and editing

Recorded at the Orpheus Institute (Concert Hall), on the 22.01.2017

Monday 28 November 2016, 6 pm to 7 pmLecture Recital Room, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DT
Guildhall ResearchWorks series, presented in association with the Institute of Musical of Musical Research and the Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 5 pm to 6.30 pm

Robin Orr Recital Room, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, 11 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP (no booking necessary).

Performance Studies Forum, hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies

The Emancipated Performer: Musical Rendering Beyond Interpretation

Paulo de Assis (ERC Principal Investigator, Orpheus Institute)

A close historical survey reveals that the notion of ‘musical interpretation’ was born only in the course of the nineteenth century, bound to a specific set of new rules, constraints and expectations. Other words and other practices were in use before its appearance, and other terms and praxes might emerge in the future. This talk will offer a brief overview of the terms used in the past and propose new ones for the future. Situating the discourse in a post-interpretive horizon of possibilities, it will argue for an emancipated, liberated and creative mode of performing musical objects from the past.

More specifically, Paulo de Assis will present his ongoing, European-funded research project MusicExperiment21, focusing on the subproject Diabelli Machines – a series of performances, lectures, articles or installations that operate different forms of problematization of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations Op. 120. Every single instantiation of this subproject questions the original work, cracking it from inside, disclosing its ruptures, and reconfiguring it in a different regime of perception and signification. Beyond historiographical, philological, organological or sociological investigations, it aims at creatively yet rigorously engaging with the historically available materials related to Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and its compossible futures.

So far, the Diabelli Machines has had seven instantiations, including collaborations with the ORCiM-ensemble, Hermes Ensemble, Ensemble Interface and ME21 Collective, with seven young composers (Juan Parra, Lucia D’Errico, Tiziano Manca, David Gorton, Hans Roels, Bart Vanhecke, Paolo Galli), Swiss choreographer Kurt Dreyer, and a number of special guests such as Valentin Gloor, Catherine Laws, Stefan Östersjö, William Brooks, Benjamin Widmer and Mieko Kanno. All versions are documented at https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/302790/302791.

Research Masterclass for Doctoral and Master’s Students
Sponsored by the Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies, Institute of Musical Research, and Guildhall School of Music & Drama

3 to 5 pm, Monday 28 November 2016
Lecture Recital Room, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DT

A new series of ‘Research Masterclasses’, coordinated by Prof. John Rink (Cambridge University) is being launched for music postgraduates, especially those working in practice-based research and in performance studies.
The first event in the series was held on Monday 28 November, led Paulo de Assis (ERC Principal Investigator, Orpheus Institute; Visiting Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies) and featured the work of two students: Naomi Woo (University of Cambridge) and Louise Cournarie (Royal Academy of Music).