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Symposium Rushing to Revolution? Open Access Models for Humanities Journals

11/09/2014 //
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Up to this moment, there is no satisfying business model for Open Access journals within the Humanities. Yet, there is no turning back especially now the call for Open Access is strongly supported by politicians and funders.
Is it possible to keep existing journals afloat in an Open Access world? Or do we need to make more radical choices by reforming publication culture and journal formats in the Humanities?

This symposium, organised by TS·> Tijdschrift voor tijdschrift­studies and Utrecht University Library, will explore possible solutions for scholarly journals that are contemplating or planning a transition to Open Access, and for journals that are currently trying to survive in Open Access. Experts from the international field of Open Access publishing for Humanities will share their views and experiences.
Furthermore, several journal editors who made the transition to OA will talk about their new business models and the challenges they are facing.

Confirmed speakers and programme

  • Anne Bindslev, PhD (Co-Action Publishing, Senior Publisher)
  • Jan Erik Frantsvåg, MA (University of Tromsø, Open Access Adviser
  • Inge Werner, PhD (Utrecht University Library, Publishing Consultant)
  • Leonie de Goei & Aad Blok (PhD, Royal Netherlands Historical Society, PublisherBMGN – Low Countries Historical Review, & Managing Editor BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review, resp.)
  • Marcel Cobussen, PhD (Leiden University, Founding Editor Journal of Sonic Studies)
  • Esther Op de Beek, PhD (Leiden University, TreasurerTS·> Tijdschrift voor Tijdschriftstudies)

Date and location

  • 17th of October 2014
  • Utrecht University Library, Heidelberglaan 3, 3584 CS Utrecht,
    The Netherlands

Registration

Categories Blog Posts, Conference, Science

vs. Interpretation

17/07/2014 //
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vs. Interpretation. Bit of a strange title for a really interesting conference on improvisation I’m currently attending in Prague. Very nice mixture of paper presentations, workshops, and concerts. Today (July 17) great lecture-performance by violinist Mary Oliver, actually a homage to Misha Mengelberg. Also a great concert by George Lewis (electronics, trombone), Pauline Oliveros (accordeon) and Joelle Leandre (double bass). At a certain moment the concert connected to a text I recently wrote for my forthcoming book on improv, complexity, and singularity. The text is about the relation between improv and play and one of the characteristics of play is, at least according to Johan Huizinga in his Home Ludens that it is disconnected from “real” life. However, in this venue where the temperature reached some 35 degrees celcius, Joelle suddenly added her voice to the music, singing the words “It is hot”. In that very moment she broke the disconnection between play and real life – IOW, real life entered the improvisation, if only through text.
Tomorrow a keynote by Pauline and performances by Jef Goldberg, Phil Niblock, and Iva Bittova (among others).

Categories Blog Posts, Conference, Improvisation

Every Breath After the Storm

12/05/2014 //
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The Common Linnets are a musical duo that represented The Netherlands in this years Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen. And they came in second. DJ Schmolli created a mix of their song “Calm After the Storm” with the Police’s monster hit “Every Breath You Take”. Listen here to the original and here to the remix.

Categories Blog Posts, Music

Improvising Across Borders Conference

10/03/2014 //
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The Improvising Across Borders Conference will take place on July 17-19, 2014, throughout downtown Prague.

Keynote speakers: George Lewis, Pauline Oliveros, and Dana Reason.

I will present a paper on the role of technology in the field of musical improvisation. Central question is if humans are indispensable for improvisation. I will argue that, although human input might always be present in any improvisation, it can be a minor actant in certain occasions; sometimes, technology is the most important (f)actor in an improv event.

You can find more information on the conference  (though not really a lot) on http://agosto-foundation.org/iab/

Categories Blog Posts, Conference, Improvisation

Macedonian Music and Improvisation

31/12/2013 //
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To end 2013 here’s some nice guitar music by Macedonian musician Vlatko Stefanovski. I will dedicate some pages to his “interpretations” of the famous Macedonian folktune “Jovana, Jovanke” in my forthcoming (e-)book on improvisation, complexity, and singularity which I’m hoping to finish in 2014. Next to that I will be working on a Routledge sounding art companion which I’m editing with Barry Truax from Vancouver and Vincent Meelberg, my colleague at ACPA and co-editor of The Journal of Sonic Studies

Categories Blog Posts, Improvisation, Music

RMA Annual Conference

11/12/2013 //
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The 4th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group (in collaboration with the Music and Philosophy Study Group of the American Musicological Society) will be co-hosted by the Departments of Music and Philosophy at King’s College London, 27-28 June 2014.

The call for papers is now open and available here. The deadline for submissions is Friday, 7 February 2014.

Keynote speakers will include:

Categories Blog Posts, Conference, Music, Philosophy

Conference CFP: Electroacoustic Music Beyond Concert Performance

11/12/2013 //
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EMS14, 10-14 June 2014, Berlin

The concert work is still considered to be the epitome of electroacoustic music. During a work’s performance the relationships between composition and audience in time and space are defined as homogeneous  – just as in the Aristotelian drama. However, since the 1960s, specific forms of electroacoustic music that challenge the possibility (or conception) of an absolute and exclusive reception have gained substantially in importance. This development resulted in concert forms of extended duration, as well as sound art and music in the media offering the listener opportunities to arrange the perceived sounds in new individual arrangements or to explore the aural space of one piece in various ways.The aesthetical positions and the practical consequences for electroacoustic music that have emerged from these specific environments shall be considered at EMS14 conference.

This EMS conference aims to discuss a number of relevant questions concerning electroacoustic music beyond concert performance among musicologists, composers and sound artists. Musicological studies in this field still lack consistent, rigorous research. Therefore, we explicitly invite papers that focus on aesthetics, history, analysis and practical issues of electroacoustic music of Extended Duration, as Sound Art/Sound Installation, as Media Music, as Conceptual Music, as Participatory Music, in the context of Happenings or extended Concert Forms.

More info on http://www2.ak.tu-berlin.de/Geschichte/Konzerte/2014.06.09-EMS.pdf

Categories Blog Posts, Conference, Music

The Listening Workshop

11/12/2013 //
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The Listening Workshop, launched by Royal Holloway’s Humanities and Arts Research Centre, provides a new central London space for exploring questions of listening from multiple disciplinary perspectives. It has two interlocking strands. One of these is a Reading Group, co-convened by Rachel Beckles Willson and Carlo Cenciarelli, consisting of an open forum for discussing new and canonic texts on the history, ethnography and theory of listening. The other strand is a series of talks by speakers from a variety of disciplines (English Literature, Ethnomusicology, Geography, History, Media Arts, Musicology, Sociology). Subjects range from ‘sonic horror’ in fiction to sound design to urban soundscapes and beyond.

More info on http://www.rhul.ac.uk/harc/home.aspx

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The Musician Wren

17/10/2013 //
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The origin of human music has long been the subject of intense discussion between philosophers, cultural scientists and naturalists. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, US, have now found striking parallels between our music and the song of a small brown bird living in the Amazon region. The Musician Wren favors consonant over dissonant intervals, something that has rarely been observed in other animal species before. This bird’s musicality goes even further: it prefers to sing perfect consonances (octaves, perfect fifths, and perfect fourths) over imperfect consonances leading to some passages which may sound to human listeners as if they are structured around a tonal center.
More info on http://www.mpg.de/7572084/bird-song-human-music
Categories Blog Posts, Music, Science

Vinyl – Tales from the Vienna Underground

02/05/2013 //
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How can one represent a city on film using an inter-disciplinary approach based on sounds? Andrew Standen-Raz’s movie Vinyl deals with the topic how to “view” a city through its sounds, mediated sounds created by musicians as well as mediated and free sounds created by speech, transportation, random sounds, and other forms of communication. Vinyl explicitly explores the creative methods and cultural influences of musicians and how their own relationship to the city of Vienna affected their music and their sense of self. Many of them are part of the klingt.org community of sound artists, experimenting with anything and everything to communicate through sounds.

Categories Blog Posts, Music, Sound Art
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