New Resonances: Publics & Politics
How is music shaped by the architectures and geographies it is made in? Listen to the resonances between contemporary musical culture and new spaces for performance across three days of debates, performances and workshops.
FRIDAY 12TH OCTOBER
11.30 OPENING REMARKS
John Bingham-Hall, Director, Theatrum Mundi
Christos Carras, Executive Director, Onassis Cultural Centre
11.45-13.15 PUBLICS
Can new music ever reflect the cultures of its heterogeneous publics, and should it attempt to? Are new spaces for performance bringing new relationships between audience and performer, or replicating those staged by the concert hall? What are the values in different formations of public that are gathered by new rituals of performance.
Chair: Sam Mackay, Sound and Music
Louis d’Heudieres, composer and PhD candidate at University of Bath
Lia Mazzari, Artist and Funder of Silver Road
Sarah Jane Barnes, PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London
14.30-16.00 POLITICS
What are the structures of music’s engagement with the politics controversies of the sites it is performed in? Should it recount, mediate, pacify, or stimulate discord? How do geographies like those of exclusion and inclusion shape what is written and heard?
Chair: Julia Eckhardt, Q-02 Brussels
Freya Jarman, Reader in Music at University of Liverpool
Elaine Mitchener, experimental vocalist, movement artist and composer
Alexandra Lacroix, French opera director and set-designer
16.15-16.45 PERFORMED INTERVENTIONS
University of the Ghetto
in memoriam of the Whitechapel Library
An oral tribute by Elaine Mitchener
non-curated (summertime)
Ella Finer and Flora Pitrolo of the collective The International Western present a performance-composition based on the electromagnetic resonances of the Whitechapel Gallery. An experiment in listening to the non-curated sonic dimension of the building and in bringing the building as sonic document into the archive.
16.450-17.45 WORKROOM CONVERSATION: ON RITUAL / ON VOICE
How other artistic practises deal with questions of architectures and geographies? Does site shape dance, sculpture, installation or writing in a similar or different way to its resonance in music? Two smaller conversations between practitioners from different disciplines drawing on Theatrum Mundi’s regular sessions looking at how ideas become form.
Alexandra Lacroix, French opera director and set-designer
Andrea Luka Zimmerman, artist and filmmaker
New Resonances is organised by Theatrum Mundi and the Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, as part of the Interfaces project supported by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.
