Encontro
Científico Internacional para Estudos sobre Som e Instrumentos Musicais
CONGRESSO DE ORGANOLOGIA 2013
International Scientific Meeting
for Sound and Musical Instrument Studies
ORGANOLOGICAL
CONGRESS 2013
18-20/04/2013
Local: Universidade de Évora - University of Evora,
Portugal
CALL
FOR PAPERS
Geral-General
In furtherance of our principal aim
of promoting the interchange of knowledge and experience in the field of
musical instruments, the Organological Congress 2013 in Portugal will bring
together scholars and all who are interested in the various subjects embraced
by Organology, such as museology, engineering, acoustics, archaeology, history,
applied arts, psychology, or in issues related to the performance or use of
musical instruments (neuroscience, ergonomics, morphological anthropology,
kinanthropometry or others). We are looking forward to the revealing of “new
ideas”, new studies on instruments, new research methods, inventions and
further developments of acquired scientific knowledge. While the main theme in
2013 will focus on innovation in sound studies and production and a strand of
the congress will embrace this theme (see below), papers are welcomed from any
branch of organology, in order to maintain our aim of representing this
scientific area as an holistic whole.
Resumos-Abstracts
We are inviting potential
participants to submit abstracts (200-300 words) in English (international
common language), for lecture proposals (15+5 minutes for questions and
handover), lecture-recital or recital proposals (30 minutes) or posters, in all
topics related to Organology, including acoustic analysis, construction or
study of the mechanics of instruments, museological concerns (collections,
exhibition, conservation, media, public policies, etc.), iconography or
performance issues. Papers are cross-related with the opportunity being
provided for open sessions. We appreciate proposals which are original,
technically excellent, and with a synthetic and critical posture. Presentations
should be in English, wherever possible, but may also be in Portuguese, French
or Spanish, provided that the presentational material (PowerPoint) is in
English.
The title, abstract and a short
biography (100 words) should be received by email (to: congressorg.animusic@gmail.com) on or before the 20th
of March of 2013, independently of time zone. The results will be communicated
individually after being peer-reviewed by the scientific committee, not later
than the 31st of March. Papers presented at the Organological
Congress may be submitted for publication in the conference proceedings. Early
registration is available during February and March. Participants are offered
special discounts for flights by TAP.
Special guest
speakers:
Dr. Peter Holmes, Prof. Eberhard Meinel, Prof. Jeremy Montagu, Prof. Arnold
Myers
Organisation and
financial support: ANIMUSIC-Portugal; UnIMeM; IIFA; University of Evora; Goethe Institut;
Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal
TAP-Portugal is the official flight
carrier, supporting the Organological Congress 2013; discounts available after
contact.
For further and updated information
please check the website: www.animusic-portugal.org
or
contact us at:animusic.portugal@gmail.com
TEMA-THEME
Leading to new
ideas : innovation from past, present and future
By identifying crossroads of
diversified knowledge, this meeting will facilitate the interchange of ideas,
bringing people together from various fields and expanding awareness of what
exists and what might exist. Beyond the reinvention of the past, using a
limitless imagination regarding the building of instruments with traditional
materials, the bridge to new technology has been crossed to access a new world
of sound exploration. Wonderful possibilities have been opened up with the
advances in technology, both in the study of the lost past or the surviving
objects of the present, as well as in the development of innovative
instruments, paving the way to a future whose potential remains unimaginable
even for the workers on the cusp of these developments, let alone the general
public. Different perspectives will be presented at this conference, for the
observation of the intersection of sound with everyday life, the physical and
psychological effects of listening and playing, the interconnectivity or the
regional particularities observed in the various collections around the world,
or for cultural originality of any kind. Researchers,
constructors, inventors, curators, traders, artists, and all interested in this
unlimited journey will gather to debate the inventive spectrum of ‘sound’
production and musical composition and also to investigate what has lead the
human to value organised sound so greatly and what drives us on to expand the
world of sound continuously, ensuring that the one predictable thing about the
future of human sound tools will be their unpredictability. Sound and creation,
from time immemorial into the future.
EXTRA
PROGRAM:
» CONFERÊNCIA-CONFERENCE “Art
and Science” at the Goethe Institut in Lisbon, 17th of April, 19h00,
Biblioteca, free entrance: Lecture in the form of a dialogue, where the
relationship between the development of the organological science and the arts
is illustrated by Dr. Patricia Bastos, President of ANIMUSIC, and also where
examples of schools of musical instrument construction and research carried out
in Germany are shown by Prof. Eberhard Meinel, Director of the Studiengang
Musikinstrumentenbau from the University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau,
Germany.
»
EXPOSIÇÃO-EXHIBITION OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
(during the Congress): Palácio do Vimioso, Universidade de Évora, Portugal
» CONCURSO ANIMUSIC / CONTEST FOR
THE CONSTRUCTION OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: to be announced at www.animusic-portugal.org
