02 Nov Call for Papers: MINIMALIST INTERSECTIONS
The Ninth International Conference on Music and Minimalism
Dates: 29 May – 1 June 2024
Location: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Organizers:
Society for Minimalist Music
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA)
Institute of Musicology SASA
in collaboration with the Belgrade Festivals’ Centre (CEBEF)
Keynote speakers:
Kevin Karnes, Emory University, United States
Author of Sounds Beyond: Arvo Pärt and the 1970s Soviet Underground (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa (Oxford University Press, 2017), http://music.emory.edu/home/people/biography/karnes-kevin-c..html
Christophe Levaux, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Author of We Have Always Been Minimalists: The Construction and Triumph of a Musical Style (University of California Press, 2020), https://uniroma.academia.edu/ChristopheLevaux
Elena Dubinets, London Philharmonic Orchestra, United Kingdom
Author of Russian Composers Abroad: How They Left, Stayed, Returned (Indiana University Press, 2021), https://lpo.org.uk/people/elena-dubinets/
Deadline for proposals: 15 January 2024
For the first time since its inception, the biennial International Conference on Minimalist Music will take place in southeastern Europe, in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, a Balkan megalopolis situated at the confluence of the rivers Sava and Danube.
While continuing to engage with the core minimalist repertoire, the goal of the organizers is to stimulate the study of minimalist music (and its various spin-offs such as postminimalism, “new simplicity,” and “holy minimalism”) in the countries outside of the Anglo-American and Western European mainstream—including, but not limited, to the countries of Central, Eastern, Southern, and Northern Europe.
Aside from expanding the geographical scope of research to embrace both the various global music practices that have predated and influenced the genesis of minimalist music and the development of minimalism in the countries outside of the Anglo-American/West-European core, we also aim to encourage the study of minimalist music in the context of its various intersections with electronic music, ambient music, performance art, sound installations, applied music for film, theatre, television, video games, and commercials, among others. We also welcome contributions addressing the dialectic relationship between minimalism and other 20th- and 21st-century styles, including new complexity and spectralism, for instance.
We invite submissions on a broad range of topics representing different disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches. We welcome all scholars and practitioners including composers, musicologists, ethnomusicologists, music theorists, performers, cultural and art theorists, and other researchers from the humanities to stimulate lively debate about the past and current state of the art in minimalist music and its numerous offshoots.
We especially welcome papers that address the following:
– provide insight into minimalist music and its reception throughout Europe, including the countries of Central, Eastern, Southern, and Northern Europe, as well as its intersections with the local traditions in these regions
– offer new perspectives on the core minimalist repertory and its intersections with other styles
– illuminate the long-ranging impact and influence of minimalist music and its various spin-offs into the 21st century
– study the intersections of minimalism with popular music and culture.
Formats:
- individual papers (20 minutes)
- themed sessions (3–4 papers, 20 minutes each)
- lecture-recitals (30–60 minutes)
For themed sessions, please submit all abstracts together with an additional proposal describing your session theme (100 words).
Please send abstracts (300 words) to belgrademinimalism2024@gmail.com by 15 January 2024. In your submission, please include your name, any institutional affiliation, and any audiovisual requirements.
The conference committee will review all submissions and inform the participants by 15 February 2024.
Conference fee: €80 for affiliated scholars, €60 for independent researchers, €40 for students. The conference fee includes free entry to all concerts organized during the conference:
- Wednesday, 29 May 2024: Ensemble for Different New Music (formed in 1977, the first ensemble in Serbia, then Yugoslavia, specializing in minimalist music)
- Thursday, 30 May 2024: Piano duos Jeroen and Sandra van Veen and LP Duo (Sonja Lončar and Andrija Pavlović) (music by Simeon ten Holt)
- Friday, 31 May 2024: Pneuma Quartet (new minimalist music in Serbia)
- Saturday, 1 June 2024: Vladimir Milošević, piano, and Nemanja Stanković, cello (music by Philip Glass)
- Sunday, 2 June 2024: Concert by Miloš Raičković
Program Committee
Maarten Beirens, President of the Society for Minimalist Music, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ex officio
Svetislav Božić, Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA), ex officio
Laura Emmery, Emory University, United States
Ulli Götte, Zentrum für Interkulturelle Musik e. V., Kassel, Germany
Marija Maglov, Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Ivana Medić, Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia, Chair
Ivana Miladinović Prica, Faculty of Music, University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Jelena Novak, CESEM, Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal
Kerry O’Brien, Cornish College of the Arts, United States
John Pymm, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
Katarina Tomašević, Director of the Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Organizing Committee
Miloš Bralović, Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Laura Emmery, Emory University, Atlanta, United States
Marija Hauk, Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Aleksandra Hreljac, Department for International Collaboration, SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Marija Maglov, Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Ivana Medić, Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Jelena Novak, CESEM, Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal
Monika Novaković, Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Stefan Savić, Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Contact: belgrademinimalism2024@gmail.com