Friday, 24th May 2013

18:30 Registration MUT Foyer

19:30 Reception - MUT Foyer

Saturday, 25th May 2013

9:30 Registration - Schloss Gottesaue Hörsaal

10:00 Welcome and Introduction - Schloss Gottesaue Hörsaal

Session 1 (20th-century Music and Aesthetics)

Chair: Dr John Dack

10:15 Dr Francis Heery

Morton Feldman and the Aesthetics of ‘Surface

10:45 Luisa Balaguer

Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Spain

Lachenmann’s Gran Torso: A Phenomenological Approach

11:15 Matthew Sergeant

Royal Northern College of Music, UK

Invoking the Interface of the Fantastic: Todorov, Music and Composition

      Break (15 Minutes)

Session 2 (Artistic Research 1)

Chair: Prof Dr Mine Doğantan-Dack

12:00 Dr Miroslav Spasov

University of Keele, UK

Sabda Vidya – Composing that Involves Software/Machine Agency

12:30 Dr Nina Whiteman

Royal Northern College of Music, UK

From the Scientific to the Sonic: Compositional and Performative Approaches in DNA for Solo Voice

13:00 Dr Hilary Mullaney

Plymouth University, UK; DkIT, Ireland

The Composer isn’t There: a Personal Exploration of Place in Fixed Media Composition

                                             Lunch 13.30-14.30

                      (packed lunch to be provided for delegates)

14:30-15:30   Keynote Presentation – Philippe  Manoury

Chair: Prof Dr Thomas Troge

                                                Break (15 minutes)

Session 3 (Issues in Musical Performance)

Chair:  Dr Miroslav Spasov

15:45 Dr John Dack

Middlesex University, UK

Can a sine-tone be ausdrucksvoll?

16:15 Jane Dickson & Dr Sebastian Lexer

University of East Anglia, UK (SL)

The Role of Virtuosity in Electroacoustic Performance

16:45 Prof Dr Per Dahl

University of Stavanger, Norway

Lost in Translation? A Listener’s Perspective on Musical Performance

19:30 SYMPOSIUM CONCERT

      venue:  MUTProbe 1  

                   Works by MuSA-delegates and members of IMWI

20:00 Pre-symposium Concert

venue: MUTProbe 1

Works by Philippe Manoury

        Le Prélude, pièce électroacoustique d'après K...

Scène 9, pièce électroacoustique d'après K...

Jupiter, for flute and live-electronics

Flute, Eve Cambreling

Sound Director, Philippe Manoury

Sunday 26th May, 2013

Session 4 (Philosophical and Critical Approaches)

Chair: Dr Miroslav Spasov

10:00  Dr Adam Stansbie

University of Sheffield, UK

Concrete or Concrète?: An Ontological Account of Acousmatic Music

10:30 Dr Robert Dow

University of Edinburgh, UK

The Spectre of the Composer: Self-inscription in Musique Concrète

11:00 Prof Dr Mine Doğantan-Dack

Middlesex University, UK

Tactile Cultures and the Aesthetics of Pianistic Touch

                                             Break (15 minutes)

Session 5 (Perspectives from the Far East)

Chair:  Christoph Seibert

11:45  Dr Katsura Koishi

Kyoto University, Japan

The Symphony and the Japanese: 50 Years of Classical CD Consumption in Japan

12:15 Prof Dr Kiu Tung Poon

University of Saint Joseph, Macau, China

Chinese‐Western Syncretism: On Performing the Piano Works of Chen Yi

                                           Lunch 12.45-14.00

                      (packed lunch to be provided for delegates)

Session 6 (Artistic research 2)

Chair: Dr John Dack

14:00  Vincent Wikström

Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikinformatik, Karlsruhe, Germany

Mimetic Sound Composition: A Compositional Concept

14:30  Bernd Härpfer

Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikinformatik, Karlsruhe, Germany

Steps Towards an Integrated Computational Paradigm of Musical Meter

                                            Break (15 Minutes)

Session 7

Chair: Prof Dr Mine Doğantan-Dack

15:15  Elena Anisimova

Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikinformatik, Karlsruhe, Germany

Historical Development of Audio-visual Interaction and its Psychophysiological Bases

15:45 Gregorio Karman

University of Huddersfield, UK

The Well-Tempered Tapesichordist: On the Art of Domestic Sound Composition in the Cradle of the DNA revolution.

16:15  Conclusion of MuSA 2013