FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC 2012

Music– Body – Performance – Sound – Theory @ Sonorities Festival 22-27 March 2012

Introduction

 

The Sonorities Festival is the longest-running new music festival in Ireland and is one of the cornerstone Festivals in Europe presenting innovative new music.   Run by the School of Creative Arts and the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, the Festival has always brought to Northern Ireland innovative ideas and sounds from across the world and the 2012 Festival is no exception in this regard. We are  hosting a special event which has at its core the theme of The Body’s Music.

As digital technologies permeate and often dominate our daily lives, creative disciplines likewise become influenced, shaped and altered by those technological advances. The body’s relations to musical instruments, its connection and dis-connections with technological devices as well as the ways in which our bodies are being made audible (as well as visual) is a heightened concern for sonic arts practitioners. The grounding of music in / within the body can provide a familiar touchstone for listeners, and represents one of the strategies for engaging a broad spectrum of audience members with contemporary music. Practitioners continue to define and critically examine the threshold conditions between body and instrument and challenge continuities and discontinuities of body, as well as the changing role of the instrument itself.

The international symposia series, Two Thousand +, which has been running alongside the festival since 2006, will be dedicated to theme of The Body's Music. For the symposium, we seek paper proposals from diverse performance practitioners (from music, dance, theatre and new media) and theorists that put the human body at the centre of their practices.

We are proud to announce dancer, choreographer and philosopher Susan Kozel and BioMuse System creator Ben Knapp as keynote speakers for the symposium.

 

Contacts:

 

 

Specific queries can be directed to:

Artistic Director: Franziska Schroeder (f.schroeder@qub.ac.uk)

Assistant Director: Miguel Ortiz Perez (m.ortiz@qub.ac.uk)

Logistics Coordinator: Emily Robertson (erobertson01@qub.ac.uk)

General Enquiries (venue, travel)

Marian Hanna (m.hanna@qub.ac.uk)

 

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