Unlimited Voices
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Conference Host "The role of machines in music culture: Analysis of historical and current aspects and perspectives" JSPS-sponsored research project; The University of Tokyo, Institute for Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies 主催 日本学術振興会科学研究費補助金研究プロジェクト「音楽文化における機械の役割ーその歴史・現状に関する多面的分析と展望」(研究代表:ヘルマン・ゴチェフスキ准教授) Conference Chair Conference Location As part of a large-scale Westernization
in East Asia, the combination of text and music and the aesthetics of
vocal styles have been issues of controversial discussion since the early
20th century. The massive influx of Western music lead to ubiquitous vocal
forms with Asian text sung to often purely Western musical idioms – combinations
that were frequently triggered or influenced by political agenda. Most
vocal styles of traditional East Asian genres, in contrast, have proved
too idiosyncratic for such a politicized articulation of identity. Their
"otherness" has only more recently been considered by composers
as starting points of an accentuation of cultural difference. Such references
to Asian vocal traditions vary from a concise modelling of identifiable
styles to more hybrid mixtures that often are indebted to unique performer
experiences and abilities. Composers in the West have equally called into
question traditional Western vocal aesthetics and practices by exploring
the diverse layers of the human voice systematically, often in connection
with explicitly anti-traditional text-music-relationships or de-semanticizations
of the phonetic material.
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Saturday, March 8, 2008
10 am - 5.45 pm
10.00 Welcoming Statement 10.15 Introduction: 山上揚平Yōhei Yamakami; 中村仁Jin Nakamura
/ 梶野絵奈Ena Kajino; Stefan Menzel; 白井史人Fumito Shirai [students’ presentation]:
From Sounds to Identities. Theoretical Models of Globalization and their
Relevance for 20th Century Music 11.00 Christian Utz (University for Music and Dramatic Arts Graz, Austria): Multiple Voices across Space and Time. Methodological Draft for an Intercultural History of Vocal Music 11.45 Steven Nuss (Colby College, Waterville,
ME): Cross-Cultural Inversions Around Language. An Approach to Hearing
and Not-Hearing Across Japanese Nō and Contemporary Western Vocal Music
(with an Oblique Glance back at Levi-Strauss)
14.30 Steven G. Nelson (Hosei University Tokyo): Heightened Vocalization at the Japanese Heian Court. References to Vocal Music in "The Tale of Genji" (Genji Monogatari) 15.15 高橋悠治 Yūji Takahashi (Tokyo): Lost Melodies from Ancient Times. The Vocal Parts in my Works with Japanese Instruments [panel discussion with Christian Utz] 16.00 Coffee Break 16.15 Hermann Gottschewski (University of Tokyo): Vocal Music and Cultural Identity in Early 20th Century Japan 17.00長木誠司 Seiji Chōki (University of Tokyo): Vocal Music in Japan during World War II
田中悠美子、太棹三味線、語り Yumiko Tanaka, futozao-shamisen / voice traditional music for futozao-shamisen, koto and voice.
IV: Grain(s) in the Voice: Vocal Music and Identity in Asia and the West (chair: Christian Utz) 10.00 Jörn Peter Hiekel (Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, Germany): Ritualization and Transformation in Vocal Works by Helmut Lachenmann, Giacinto Scelsi and Hans Zender 10.45 劉長江 Frederick Lau (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa): Voice, culture, and ethnicity in contemporary Chinese compositions 11.30 Coffee Break 11.45 Heekyung Lee (Seoul National University):
Rejuvenating Tradition. Metamorphosis of Traditional Vocal Music Idioms
in Korean Contemporary Music 14.30 福中冬子 Fuyuko Fukunaka (Keio University
Tokyo): “The eyes that never close”. The Instrumental Voice and the Embodied
Voice in the Operas of Toshio Hosokawa 16.00 Coffee Break 17.00 Panel Discussion: Musical Identity and the Human Voice (chair: Hermann Gottschewski)
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