Programme
Spectralisms Programme
Wednesday 15 March 2017
09.15 Welcome
09.30 1A – in vain and Beyond
BAUER, Amy (University of California, Irvine): Listening between darkness and light: the materiality of the visual in post-spectral orchestral music
HUTCHINSON, Mark (York St John University): Stairways in the dark: sound, syntax and the sublime in Haas’s in vain
HOFFMANN, Marco (University of Siegen): ‘… Man is blind and merely dreams of seeing …’ Critical Austrian reception of spectralism in Georg Friedrich Hass’s in vain
09.30 1B – Harmony, Timbre, Noise
SULLIVAN, Tim (SUNY, Potsdam): Lines and resonances: melodic and harmonic structures in spectral music
GAINEY, Christopher (University of British Columbia): Timbre-harmony in the opening of Tristan Murail’s Désintégrations
PUSTIJANAC, Ingrid (Università di Pavia): Beyond the spectra: the role of noise in Grisey’s and Murail’s early spectral works
11.00 Break (Coffee)
11.30 Keynote Lecture
Tristan Murail: ‘Who invented spectral music?’
12.30 Lunch
14.00 2A – Rhythm, Temporality, Form (I)
JAKUBOWSKI, Joseph R. (Washington University in St. Louis): Spectral meter: metric cognition, conflict, and form in Grisey’s Vortex Temporum
EXARCHOS, Dimitris (Goldsmiths, University of London): The skin of spectral time in Grisey’s percussion music
NOH, Stephan (National University of Seoul): La notion de la temporalité dans la musique spectrale de Gérard Grisey
14.00 2B – After Spectralism? (I)
BESADA, José Luis (Ircam): Post-spectral influences in Spanish contemporary music: from mathematical formalisms to Flamenco
RUI, Pereira Jorge (CESEM, Nova University, Lisbon): Spectralism beyond spectral music: how other musical practices absorbed spectral issues
MOROZ, Nicholas (University of Oxford): Technical hybridity and metabolism of sound in Fausto Romitelli’s Professor Bad Trip triptych
15.30 Break (Coffee)
16.00 3A – Rhythm, Temporality, Form (II)
MASSON, Jean-Baptiste (IPEM, University of Gent; Conservatoire de Reims): Le dynamisme dans le statisme. Pansonorité, spectralisme et relativité du temps
SCHEUREGGER, Martin (University of Lincoln): Spectral thinking in the music of George Benjamin
16.00 3B – After Spectralism? (II)
FELICI, Candida (Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali, Pavia): In search of sound: Jonathan Harvey’s music between spirituality and avant-garde
D’AGUIAR, Felipe Pinto (University of Massachusetts): Perspectives on the String Quartet No. 3 by G. F. Haas and the idea of a common practice in new music
17.00 Break
19.30 Concert at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building given by London Sinfonietta of works by Murail, Grisey, Saariaho and Koskelin.
c.20.45 Drinks Reception
Thursday 16 March
09.30 4A – Grisey’s Compositional Process
COSSETTINI, Luca (MIRAGE Lab, University of Udine): Jour, Contre-jour by Gérard Grisey: beyond spectralism
FÉRON, François-Xavier (Université de Bordeaux): Spectra, sinusoid, inserts and phasing: an analysis of compositional materials and process in Anubis-Nout (1983/1990) by Gérard Grisey
CASTELLENGO, Michèle (IrcInstitut d’Alembert LAM—Université Paris 6): Processus de création dans Solo pour deux pour clarinette et trombone (1981–2) de Gérard Grisey
09.30 4B – Creative Approaches
POTTIER, Laurent (Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne): Advanced tools for writing spectral music with specialized CAMD (Computer Aided Music Composition) libraries in Open-Music
MAURIN, Frédéric (composer, director of Ping Machine): Use of techniques derived from spectral music in the renewal of musical material for large jazz ensemble: application with the ensemble Ping Machine
FIELD, Ambrose (University of York): Reverse spectralism: composing with site-specific resonance mapping
11.00 Break (Coffee)
11.30 Invited Speaker
Julian Anderson: ‘The map versus the territory: towards a redefinition of spectralism’
12.30 Lunch break
13.30 5B – Ecological and Technological Perspectives
NONKEN, Marilyn (New York University): Hugues Dufourt and L’origine du monde: ‘La mémoire, c’est l’avenir du passé’
MASON, William (Columbia University): Hugues Dufourt and the ‘subject’ of computer music
YOUNG, John (De Montfort University): Partial Objects : Acousmatic Spectralism
MAESTRO, Eric (Université de Strasbourg; Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne): Les Nuages de Magellan (1973) de Tristan Murail : la musique spectrale, une musique technomorphe?
13.30 5B – Politics and Spectral Reconsiderations
FOURIE, William (Royal Holloway, University of London): Spectres of resistance: reading the politics of dissensus in the work of Andile Khumalo
FORD, Mike (Columbia University): Spectralism as activism: Georg Friedrich Haas’s musical response to the death of Eric Garner
LEVY, Benjamin R. (University of California, Santa Barbara): Ligeti and spectralism: distant resonances
MAWHINNEY, Simon (Queen’s University, Belfast): Boulez the spectralist
13.30 5C – Spectral Voices
GRIMES, Nicole (University of California, Irvine): Giving voice to spectralism: Donnacha Dennehy and the embodiment of sound
SHOLL, Robert (Royal Academy of Music; University of West London): Jean-Louis Florentz: Hospitality and Spectralism
HASELBOECK, Lukas (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna): “La voix comme radicale altérité”: Sound and meaning in Grisey’s Quatre Chants pour franchir le seuil
15.30 Break (Coffee)
16.00 Closing Panel: Repositioning Spectralism – participants Amy Bauer, Jonathan Cross, Nicolas Donin, Patricia Alessandrini
17.00 End of Conference