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Jonathan Impett |
The seminar is convened by
composer-performer-researcher Jonathan Impett, and will take pace on 21-23
November 2016, in Ghent, Belgium. At about that time, the last installment
of the hot 2015 UK debate on "composition as research" will have been
a year old (see here and here for more on that debate). The Orpheus
Seminar "will consider composition as a research activity - a process
informed by theory and intuition, constraint and contingency, expectation and
experience. It is a continuous iterative process of inscription and reflection
in which its models, metaphors, aspirations, obligations, tools and
technologies all play a part. This process is distributed temporally, socially
and materially. The artefacts of composition – however notated, improvised,
virtual, embodied or technologically implemented – are hybrid technical
objects. Neither pure ‘inspiration’ not unmediated formalism account for what
they contribute. We might rather consider composition as a design process, and
study its dynamics and decisions in the spirit of critical technical practice –
a term coined by Philip Agre in his work on the creation of the artefacts of artificial
intelligence."
Keynote speakers are Nicolas Collins (Art Institute of Chicago) and Alan Blackwell (interdisciplinary design - University of Cambridge). The call aims at proposals by practitioners from all disciplines, particularly welcoming "presentations that explore the demonstration of composition as research in innovative ways." The deadline for proposals, to be sent to info@orpheusinstituut.be, is August 17, 2016.
More information can be read here.
