CFP: Beyond the Centres: Musical Avant Gardes since 1950 (Thessaloniki, Greece)

BEYOND THE CENTRES: MUSICAL AVANT GARDES SINCE 1950

ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI, GREECE

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC STUDIES

1 - 5 JULY 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

In memoriam Yannis Andreou Papaioannou (1910 – 1989)

The notion of the avant garde in music has stereotypically been linked with the post-1950 internationalisation of early 20th-century modernist ideas, while the historical and aesthetic delimitation of boundaries between the musical avant garde and post-modernism is still under discussion. The ‘mainstream’ historiography attached to the avant garde quite expectedly focuses on the idea of innovation in the music and theoretical texts of specific pioneers, and on notions such as universality and the significance of time as parameters affecting the appraisal of the work of art.

The approach of this International Conference, as inferred from the first part of its title (‘Beyond the Centres’) can be perceived either with regard to places, times and individuals (i.e. beyond the places, times and individuals that have defined the starting points of musical avant gardes), or with regard to dominant categorizations (i.e., beyond the dominant, centric, perceptions of the avant-garde irrespective of places, times or individuals).

Thus the aim of the Conference is twofold:

1) To gather together research on widely unknown musical realizations of the notion of the avant-garde since 1950, and encourage the examination of multiple, heterogeneous currents built around the ideas of innovation and / or radicalism.

2) To stimulate theoretical critical discussion on how the notion of the avant garde can be assessed today ‘from outside’ (beyond the centric generic ideas of the time of its formation) and embrace problematisation of the very premise of a unified term for the avant garde. In other words, to motivate the critical appraisal of the function, reception, realization and dissemination of what was or is considered avant-garde in different geographical and cultural contexts. In this respect, the examination of the pedagogic methods that were developed by institutions or individuals for the establishment and dissemination of avant-garde techniques is within the scope of the Conference.

Historical, analytical, ideological, political, sociological,cultural, interdisciplinary, anthropological and other approaches are all welcome. The broad thematic categories of the Conference can be summarized as follows:

- Avant-garde techniques and aesthetics.

- Avant garde and politics / ideology.

- Compositional instruction, music theory and analysis and the avant gardes.

More specifically, the following list of possible thematic areas is intended not to be restrictive, but informative of the priorities of the Conference:

- Definitions and musical realizations of the idea of the avant garde

- ideological expressions of the avant garde

- avant garde and institutions

- avant garde and cultural identity

- reception of the avant gardes

- avant-garde pedagogies

- utopias of the avant garde

- avant-garde instrumentation – notation

- avant garde and post-modernism

- avant garde and experimentalism

- avant garde and the perception of time / space

- organicism and / or fragmentation in avant gardes.

The Conference is dedicated to the memory of Yannis A. Papaioannou,celebrating the centenary of the birth of the most influential figure in the dissemination of avant-garde ideas in post-1950 Greece through his musical, educational and institutional activities. In addition to being a stimulus for further research on Papaioannou’s life, music and ideas, the present Conference is inspired by the universality of his approach to music and teaching, thus aiming at a universal critical appraisal of different expressions of the notion of the avant garde.

The Conference is organized by the Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece between 1 and 5 July 2010. The official language of the Conference is English.

Abstracts are invited for presentation in one of the following formats:

• Papers (20 minute presentations)

• Panels, of up to four individual papers (preferably with explicit reference to one of the three main thematic categories of the conference).

Abstracts must address the conference theme and clearly state the aims and methodological approach of the proposed paper(s). Abstracts for individual papers should be no longer than 300 words. Panel proposals should include a general 100-word description of the panel’s proposed theme, accompanied by individual 300-word abstracts for all paper contributions.

All abstracts should be submitted as e-mail attachments to Kostas Chardas (kchardas@mus.auth.gr) or Danae Stefanou (dstefano@mus.auth.gr), by the deadline οf 30 November 2009, accompanied by the following information:

• Name(s) and Institutional Affiliation(s) of Author(s)

• Title of Proposed Paper or Panel

• Proposed Format of Presentation (Paper or Panel)

• Indicative List of Bibliographic References

• Brief (100-word) CV of Main Author(s).

All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by a board of international reviewers. Papers will be published on the conference website and on CD-ROM, accompanying a printed book of abstracts.

Details of submission deadlines, registration, reviewing procedures and other updates will shortly become available on the conference website at http://web.auth.gr/btc.

Organising Committee

Demetre Yannou (chair). PhD. Professor, Department of Music Studies –Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Nikos Athineos. Conductor. Artistic Director of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall.

Kostas Chardas. PhD. Lecturer, Department of Music Studies –Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (appointment pending).

Michalis Lapidakis PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Music Studies – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Evi Nika-Sampson. PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Music Studies – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Danae Stefanou. PhD. Lecturer, Department of Music Studies –Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Costas Tsougras. PhD. Lecturer, Department of Music Studies –Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

CFP: WEMIS Workshop on Exploring Music Information Spaces (Corfu, Greece)

WEMIS 2009 WORKSHOP ON EXPLORING MUSICAL INFORMATION SPACES

CORFU, GREECE

1 - 2 OCTOBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

http://www.dlsi.ua.es/wemis09

Deadline for submission of papers: June 24, 2009

The Workshop on Exploring Musical Information Spaces 2009 will be held on October 01-02, 2009, in conjunction with the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009).

The Workshop will take place at the site of the main conference, Corfu Holiday Palace hotel, Kanoni, Corfu, Greece.

Workshop topic and goals

There is an increasing interest towards music stored in digital format, which is witnessed by the widespread diffusion of standards for audio like MP3 and of web-based services to listen or purchase music. There is a number of reasons to explain such a diffusion of digital music. First of all, music crosses the barriers of national languages and cultural backgrounds and can be shared by people with different culture.

Moreover, music is an art form that can be both cultivated and popular, and sometimes it is impossible to draw a line between the two, for instance in the case of jazz or of ethnic music. These reasons, among others, may explain the increasing number of projects involving the creation of music digital libraries. A music Digital Library (DL) allows for, and benefits from, the access by users from all over the world, it helps the preservation of cultural heritage, and it is not tailored only to scholars' or researchers' needs.

The availability of music collections to a wide number of users, needs to be paired by the development of novel methodologies for accessing, retrieving, organizing, browsing, and recommending music. The research area devoted to this aspect is usually called Music Information Retrieval (MIR) although retrieval is only one of the relevant aspects. Given the particular nature of music language, which does not aim at describing objects or concepts, typical metadata give only a partial description of music documents. Thus great part of MIR research is devoted to content-based approaches, aimed at extracting relevant descriptors, computing perceptually based similarity measures, identifying music genres and artists, naming unknown songs, and recommending relevant music items.

In recent years, most of the published research results focused on the extraction of relevant features from audio recordings, aimed at providing tools for retrieval of and access to popular music for music consumers. Yet, we believe that there is still the need of a forum devoted to the investigations of new paradigms of interacting with music collections for a wider variety of users, including musicologists, theorists, and music professionals, in order to promote the dissemination of cultural heritage. This goal is achieved by means of research on the formalization of users’ needs, on novel paradigms for browsing personal collections and music digital libraries, and on the role that music theory plays on the concepts of relevance and similarity. To this end, music content should thus include the symbolic representation of music works and the information on the structure of music pieces.

The goal of the workshop is to gather researchers in all the disciplines related to music digital libraries, where original results on how musical information spaces can be explored are shared and discussed.

The topics of the workshop include:

* music digital libraries and sound archives

* music identification and retrieval

* music similarity measures

* music categorization

* content-based recommendation systems

* music-related social networks

* interfaces and user studies

* musicological information representation and inferring

* future concepts for music access

Formats, templates

Contributions will be peer reviewed by the at least two reviewers, either of the program committee or external if needed. Accepted papers will be orally presented through with twenty-minutes long talks.

Publication

Selected papers from the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version to a planned special issue on Music Digital Libraries of the Intl. Journal of Digital Libraries.

Organizing committee

Nicola Orio

University of Padova, Italy

Andreas Rauber

Vienna University of Technology, Austria

David Rizo

University of Alicante, Spain

Program committee

* George Tzanetakis (University of Victoria, Canada)

* Kjell Lemström (University of Helsinki, Finland)

* Darrell Conklin (City University, London, UK)

* José Manuel Iñesta (University of Alicante, Spain)

* Carlos Agón (IRCAM, Paris, France)

* David Bainbridge (University of Waikato, New Zealand)

* Roberto Bresin (Stockholm University, Sweeden)

* Sergio Canazza (Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy)

* Giovanni De Poli (University of Padova, Italy)

* Gert Lanckriet (University of California, San Diego, USA)

* Olivier Lartillot (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

* Massimo Melucci (University of Padova, Italy)

* Jeremy Pickens (FX, Palo Alto, USA)

* Simon Dixon (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

* Anssi Klapuri (Tampere University of Technology)

* Francois Pachet (Sony CSL Paris, France)

* Emilios Cambouroupoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,Greece)

* Stephen Downie (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Nicola Orio, Andreas Rauber, David Rizo

WEMIS Organizing Committee

CFP: 2nd International Conference of the American Society of Byzantine Music and Hymnology (Greece)

SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BYZANTINE MUSIC AND HYMNOLOGY
ATHENS, GREECE
10 - 14 JUNE 2009
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The American Society of Byzantine Music and Hymnology (www.asbmh.pitt.edu) is an international organization devoted to the scholarly study of music and ecclesiastic hymnographic literature of the Byzantine empire and the post-Byzantine period.

In collaboration with the Byzantine Studies Initiative of the University of Pittsburgh and with the organizational collaboration and support of the European Arts Center (EUARCE), we announce the Second International Conference of the Society entitled BYZANTINE MUSICAL CULTURE to be held in Athens, Greece between the 10-14th of June, 2009.

For full details and to participate: http://www.asbmh.pitt.edu/page13/page13.html

The Conference is dedicated, in memoriam, to Alexandros Moraitidis, 80 years since his passing.

Athens is the main attraction in the prefecture of Attica and serving as Greece's historical center offers a unique setting for the scholar and musicologist including numerous sites of archaeological interest, museums, libraries and ecclesiastic locations.

On-line abstract submission deadline is May 15th, 2009.

On-line registration deadline is June 1st, 2009 for reduced rate and June 1st, 2009 for full rate.

CFP: The Growth of the Art of Music in Greece of Europe (Greece)

MAY OF MUSICAL METHEXIS 2009: THE GROWTH OF THE ART OF MUSIC IN GREECE OF EUROPE
UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA, THESSALONIKI, GREECE
29 - 31 MAY 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline for electronic submission of proposals: MARCH 1, 2009

The Department of Music Science and Art of the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, is pleased to announce the International Conference "The growth of the art of music in Greece of Europe", which will take place in the context of May of Musical Methexis 2009. The conference will be held on May 29-31, 2009 in the Concert & Ceremony Hall of the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece. Distinguished personalities of international status have been invited as main speakers.

The aim of the International Conference is to contribute to the broader discussion currently developing in Greece and abroad on the study of music in higher education. The conference will explore the ways in which musical research and performance can be combined and further developed at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, so as to ensure a proficient and high-level training for musicians. Moreover, the conference will investigate the systematization of traditional music studies in terms of structure, content and goals.

The CALL FOR PAPERS and detailed information on all aspects of the conference are available at the official website of May of Musical Methexis, http://www.methexis.uom.gr.

CFP: Greek Music for the Opera in the 20th century (Greece)

GREEK MUSIC FOR THE OPERA AND OTHER FORMS OF THE PERFORMING ARTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY
MEGARON, THE ATHENS CONCERT HALL, ATHENS
27 - 28 MARCH 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”, Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall, the Athens State Orchestra, and the Greek Composers Union are organizing an international conference on “Greek music for the opera and other forms of the performing arts in the 20th century” within the context of the 5th annual cycle of the “Hellenic Music Festivities”.

The main objective of the conference is to bring to the attention of specialists in the international community, the music of Greek composers for the stage, in the 20th century. It will focus on the presentation of historical and traditional genres and forms, along with new and contemporary musical trends, and their interaction with various aspects of the performing arts.

Contributions may address any of the following topic areas:
--opera, operetta, musical
--incidental music
--dance music, ballet
--music theatre, experimental music theatre, instrumental theatre
--film music
--new forms (sound installations, video art, etc.)

Conference languages will be Greek and English.

Papers, in Greek or English, should be of 20 minutes duration, and should be presented as an abstract of not more than 250 words. Abstracts and curricula vitae should be submitted by November 10, 2008 by email to conference2009@megaron.gr. Please include contact information. An outline programme of the conference will be announced on January 15, 2009 so that participants can make their travel arrangements.

Please visit our website for further information http://www.mmb.org.gr/page/default.asp?la=2&id=4509