Philosophy of Contemporary Music
Conference
Start date: Wednesday 22 May 2024
Time: 17.00
End date: Friday 24 May 2024
Time: 13.00
Location: Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Manne Siegbahn Buildings, Frescativägen 24E, Campus Frescati
How might philosophy and aesthetic theory engage with contemporary music? And why does music matter to philosophy? These questions will be raised and addressed at this three-day conference organized by Forum Modernism in collaboration with Södertörn Philosophy and the Research School Critical Cultural Theory.
Gathering scholars from various disciplines, the conference asks whether something like a musical material can be said to exist today; how the concept of tradition is to be understood; and what kind of displacements that have occurred in the discourse of form. Such themes have been crucial for the constitution of musical meaning in modernist and contemporary classical music, as well as in the arts more generally. If they are no longer relevant, which concepts would be more pertinent today?
The conference is held in English and open to the public without pre-registration. All activities take place in the auditorium at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University unless otherwise specified.
Programme
Wednesday 22 May
| 17:00–18:00 | Max Paddison: “Problematizing the Concepts of Material, Form and Musical Meaning in the Context of the Modern” |
Thursday 23 May
| 10:00–11:00 | Susanne Kogler: “Time, Space, Material: Contemporary Music and Its Media” |
| 11:00–12:00 | Sven-Olov Wallenstein: “The Informal and the Formless” |
| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00–14:00 | Iris Dankemeyer: “Uneasy listening: On the function of music in society today” |
| 14:00–15:00 | Edward Campbell: “From Musical Material to Music’s Materiality: From Adorno to Deleuze” |
| 15:00–15:30 | Tea/coffee |
| 15:30–16:30 | Iain Campbell: “‘All sound sources in the world’ or ‘the clutter of the unkempt forest’: Two logics of relation from the music of John Cage” |
Friday 24 May
| 10:00–11:00 | Johan Sehlberg: “Deleuze, Proust, and Music as Sensible Ideas” |
| 11:00–12:00 | Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback: “Rhythm Is Music in Music: A Meditation” |
| 12:00–13:00 | Concluding discussion moderated by Sven-Olov Wallenstein |
| 18:00 | Book release at the Goethe Institute
Address: Bryggargatan 12A |
Last updated: April 30, 2024
Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics