IRZU - Institute for Sonic Arts Research Theory and Techniques of Contemporary Music Lecture Series :: April 12, 2010; 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. :: Gallery SKUC, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

IRZU - the Institute for Sonic Arts Research is announcing the educational program: “Theory and Techniques of Contemporary Music”. A series of five lectures and four workshops, running throughout April, May and June. The series starts with a lecture by Austrian composer Elisabeth Harnik at the gallery SKUC.

The main idea behind the project, “Theory and Techniques of Contemporary Music“, is to create a platform for discussing different aspects of contemporary sound based practices, as well as complement the current education standard of the Slovenian national education system, representing the field of Contemporary music. The purpose of the “Techniques“ part of the project is an introduction into the basic languages and programing environments for the production of electronic music. The focus will be on examining the standardized software tools and computational methods deployed at international academic research institutes, while the “Theory” part of the project will deal with the presentation of contemporary artistic trends in musical composition. The goal of combining the workshops and lecture-presentations is thus, to provide a complete framework introducing the techniques of electronic music production along with some selected artistic concepts and aesthetics from the field of contemporary musical composition. The invited lecturers – established composers from Austria and Germany – will play some of their recent pieces, discuss their viewpoints on the development of compositional approaches throughout the 20th and 21st century, and position their own work into a broader context of sonic arts.

Events:

12. April - Elisabeth Harnik (A) - lecture
19. April - Christoph Herndler (A) - lecture
5. May - Vasja Progar (SLO) - workshop
12. May - Vasja Progar (SLO) - workshop
17. May - Peter Ablinger (D) - lecture
19. May - Vasja Progar (SLO) - workshop
26. May - Vasja Progar (SLO) - workshop
13. June - Gerriet K. Sharma (D) - lecture
17 June - Alberto de Campo (D) - lecture

http://www.irzu.org/flyers/TPSG2010.pdf

http://www.irzu.org

Co-producers:

- Gallery SKUC - http://www.skuc.org/
- Ljudmila - http://www.ljudmila.org/