DATE: 17-10-2018
Call for proposals: Orpheus Seminar in February 2019

From Authorship and Spectatorship to Usership in Music
The Orpheus Seminar will be held on 21-22 February 2019 at Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Belgium.
Proposals (c. 200 words) for 20-minute presentations are invited from artists/researchers working in all areas of music practice and theory. Alternative modes of presentation, including performance-based presentation/demonstration/film, are particularly welcome. The convenors hope to produce a publication developed from selected presentations at this seminar.
Topics might include:
The Orpheus Seminar will be held on 21-22 February 2019 at Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Belgium.
Proposals (c. 200 words) for 20-minute presentations are invited from artists/researchers working in all areas of music practice and theory. Alternative modes of presentation, including performance-based presentation/demonstration/film, are particularly welcome. The convenors hope to produce a publication developed from selected presentations at this seminar.
Topics might include:
- perspectives on usership in music from other arts, other disciplines - fine art, live art, theatre etc.
- historical and ethnomusicological concepts of musical use and the ‘user’. Is this issue entirely modern, Western?
- consequences of usership for aesthetic or critical criteria in music studies
- the intersection of usership with rhetorical approaches to older music
- future virtuosity, future expertise in user-oriented musical performance
- socio-political implications of music in a ‘usership economy’
- creating dialogue with ‘users’ through alternative structures for education, societies, festivals, labels, outreach
- ethical issues surrounding different modes of usership in music
- musical activity after the concert/new modes of engagement
- going beyond presentational gimmick to a state of real transformation
- the roles of consensus and individualism in a usership culture
- the role and relevance of Western Art Music within a usership culture
Convenors are: Jonathan Impett and Nicholas Brown
Please upload proposals by 15 November 2018.
For more information, please visit the website.
Please upload proposals by 15 November 2018.
For more information, please visit the website.