Datum en locatie
van 10 april 2025 tot 11 april 2025
Orpheus Instituut
Call for proposals: ODC 2025
Callvan 10 april 2025 tot 11 april 2025Music and Time: Conservation and Innovation through Artistic Research
The Orpheus Doctoral Conference (ODC) is a yearly event organised by docARTES PhD students. The perception of music as a fixed, essentialized object has long shaped Western classical music pedagogy, musicology, and performance practice research. In recent decades, influences from the social sciences have expanded music research, challenging the subject-object dualism. As an emerging discipline, artistic research has embraced this shift, redefining musical practice as an active research process through the lens of critical theory.
InschrijvenThe art or cultural object is endowed with a capacity to generate both time and space…the cultural object is both produced in time and produces timeGeorgina Born, - “Making Time: Temporality, History and the Cultural Object,” New Literary History 46, no. 3, Summer 2015, 368.
The focus of music research on conservation relies on a particular view of music as an essentialised object, being safeguarded against the ravages of linear time. Western music pedagogy is still dominated by institutions that view it as their mandate to conserve the canon of Western classical music. Historical musicology and performance practice research are often likened to processes in art conservation. More broadly, there is a sense that music research has been slower than other disciplines to embrace progressive analytical approaches rooted in critical theory.
However, over the last few decades, incursions from the fields of anthropology and the social sciences have opened up new fields of inquiry within music research, breaking down the subject-object dualism to engage meaningfully with, through, and in music. Artistic research (AR) offers a unique response to this challenge by repositioning musical practice not merely as an object, but as a research process in and of itself.
In light of these developments, the ODC 2025 invites proposals for 20-minute papers or other presentations that seek to disrupt traditional understandings of the relationship between music and time, and to explore the effects of the conservation reflex in various fields within AR.
Themes for exploration
- Conservation: How do contemporary AR trends balance conservation and innovation, and address the influence of time and space on research?
- Performance Practice: How can AR epistemologies revolutionize Historically Informed Performance practices?
- Pedagogy: Which skills and narratives are prioritized by conservatoires, and how can artistic researchers challenge or reinforce these choices?
- Composition: How can emerging trends in composition and sound art challenge positivistic views of the music object and re-imagine music’s relationship with time?
Submission guidelines
We welcome contributions from artistic researchers, artists, composers, and scholars who integrate progressive analytical approaches and innovative methodologies. The presentations can explore practice, research, and pedagogy across music, sound art, and related artistic disciplines.
Please submit an abstract (maximum 300 words) of your research topic or proposed presentation via the open call form. Deadline for submissions: 23rd of February. The selected abstracts will be announced on the 8th of March; the conference will take place the 10th and 11th of April 2025.
The conference will be held in hybrid format. Both in-person and online presentations will be possible. We want to ensure that all participants have the opportunity to contribute regardless of their location.
Keynote speakers and guest speakers:
Keynote speakers:
- Martino Gozzi, Director of the Holden School, Turin
- Bruno Forment, Orpheus Institute, Ghent
Guest speakers
- Kyoung Hwa Kim, Music Research Centre, Hanyang University
- Luca Della Libera, Musicologist, Conservatory of Frosinone
- Jeremy Cohen, Violin player and Violinjazz Publishing, San Francisco