SANU, Beograd

MINIMALIST INTERSECTIONS 2024 - international conference (28.5.-2.6.2024.)

28.5.

SASA Institutes, Knez Mihailova 36, Hall 1, 1st Floor

18:00 Business Meeting of the Society for Minimalist Music

29.5.

Great Hall of the SASA, Knez Mihailova 35, 2nd Floor

09:30 Registration

10:00 Welcoming Address: Svetislav Božić, Fellow of the Department of Arts SASA, John Pymm, Interim President of the Society for Minimalist Music, Katarina Tomašević, Director of the Institute of Musicology SASA, Jelena Janković Beguš, Belgrade Festivals’ Center (CEBEF)

10:30 Session 1: Core Minimalism and its Contemporary Readings

Chair: Maarten Beirens

10:30 Pwyll ap Siôn (Bangor University, United Kingdom): Musical Wellsprings in a Parched Landscape: The Harmonic Sources of Steve Reich’s The Desert Music (1984)

11:00 Keith Potter (Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom): Steve Reich’s Worktapes for Music for 18 Musicians: some observations on their value for research

11:30 John Pymm (University for the Creative Arts, United Kingdom): ... a place to rest, a point of repose: Max Richter’s Sleep and creating liminal space

12:00 David Kirkland Garner (University of South Carolina, United States): Tempo and expressive microtiming in Phillip Glass’ Études for Solo Piano

Hall 2, 1st Floor

10:30 Session 2: Minimalism and Postminimalism in Serbia

Chair: Jelena Janković-Beguš

10:30 Ivana Miladinović Prica (Faculty of Music, University of Arts, Serbia): Landscapes of Serbian/Yugoslav Minimalism through the Lens of the Ensemble for Different New Music

11:00 Blanka Bogunović and Nikola Dedić (Faculty of Music, University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia): The Socio-cultural and Psychological Crossroads of Minimalist Composer - Miroslav Miša Savić

11:30 Nikoleta Dojčinović (Serbian Broadcasting Corporation, Belgrade, Serbia): Atmospheric Music: Minimalism in Vladimir Tošić’s Film Music

12:00 Marija Masnikosa (Faculty of Music, University of Arts, Serbia): Diverse Genealogies of Serbian Musical Postminimalism

12:30 Coffee break

Great Hall of the SASA

13:00 Session 3: Minimalism and Postminimalism in Brazil

Chair: Pwyll ap Siôn

13:00 Rita de Cássia Domingues dos Santos (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil): Tango para Kimiê and Itnen Sanzen: Intertextuality and the Aesthetics of Impurity into Postminimalism of Cartas para Yataro

13:30 Lígia Alves de Figueiredo (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil): CAFO: Conections of postminimalist in the djent

Hall 2, 1st Floor

13:00 Session 4: Minimalism and Technology

Chair: Marija Maglov

13:00 Maurizio Rodriguez (San Francisco Conservatory of Music, United States): On/Off Music: Algorithmic Generation of 1-Bit Minimal Music

13:30 David Chapman (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, United States): Beyond Modularity: Listening to Early Minimalist Music and First - Generation Video Game Sound in the Long 1970s

14:00 Cocktail Lunch at the Club of the SASA (Mezzanine)

Great Hall of the SASA

15:00 Session 5: Minimalism in Theory and Practice

Chair: Viktor Lazarov

15:00 Kristen Wallentinsen (Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, United States): A Typology of Multistable Phenomena in Minimalist Music

15:30 Roddy Hawkins (University of Manchester, United Kingdom): (For and) Against Intellectual Complexity in Music: Contact magazine, British New Music Discourse, and the Fate of the Mixed Avant-Garde in the Long 1980s

16:00 Tingting Yang (Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China and Bard College Conservatory of Music, United States): Reshaping and Revelation: Structural Construction of Philip Glass's Trilogy of Vocal Symphonies

16:30 Coffee break

Great Hall of the SASA

16.70 Keynote 1

Christophe Levaux (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium): On the Establishment of a Musical Concept: Minimalist Music Through the Lens of Science and Technology Studies Moderator: John Pymm

Discussion

Bioskop Balkan, Braće Jugovića 16

19:00 Ensemble for Different New Music / Ansambl za drugu novu muziku - ADNM - concert

program: Andrej Negić: Images in D (2021), Dragoljub Ilić: Mindfields (2019), Milimir Drašković: From the New Old World / Aus der neuen Welt (1999), Miroslav Savić: Ovo nije Op. 1 [This Is Not Op. 1] (2018), Gavin Bryars: My First Homage (1978)

20:00 Conference Dinner

30.5.

09:00 Registration

Great Hall of the SASA, Knez Mihailova 35, 2nd floor

09:30 Session 6: Minimalism and Postminimalism in the Baltics and Poland

Chair: Kevin C. Karnes

09:30 Jānis Kudiņš (Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Riga, Latvia): Local Specificity of the New Simplicity in Latvian Academic Music: Intersections of Neoromanticism, Minimalism and Other Stylistic Trends 10:00 Rima Povilionienė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania) Navigating the Juxtaposition of Super-minimalism and Microtonality in Lithuanian Music from the Late 20th to the Early 21st Century

10:30 Evan Martschenko (Eastman School of Music, Rochester NY, United States): Feel the Emptiness: Micro-Schemata in the Music of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

11:00 Jason Jedlička (Belmont University, Nashville TN, United States): Voice and Agency in Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3

11:30 Coffee break

Great Hall of the SASA

12:00 Session 7: Minimalist Intersections in Germany, Switzerland and Belgium

Chair: Christophe Levaux

12:00 Ulli Götte (Zentrum für Interkulturelle Musik e. V. Kassel, Germany): Nik Bärtsch's special fusion approach to minimal music

12:30 Christoph Schuller (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany): Postmodernism versus Modernism? The Reception of American Minimal Music in Germany

13:00 Maarten Beirens (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands): Reading Mertens Through Mertens

13:30 Lunch break

Great Hall of the SASA

15:00 Session 8: Arvo Pärt

Chair: Marija Masnikosa

15:00 Paul Sherill (University of Utah, United States): Form Follows Scalar Content in Arvo Pärt’s Fratres

15:30 Kristina Sočanski Čelik (University of Oslo, Norway): Arvo Pärt, Minimalism and the Musical Experience

Hall 2, 1st Floor

15:00 Session 9: Steve Reich

Chair: Keith Potter

14:30 Lisa Boas (Bangor University, United Kingdom): Mozart Effect versus the Minimalist Effect: how listening to Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians (1976) can lead to improved performance in Executive Function tasks

15:00 Nevena Stanić (Northwestern University Illinois, United States): The Polyphony of Spiritual Influence in Steve Reich’s Proverb: Pérotin, Early Music Movement, Paul Hillier, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and ECM Record Series

Great Hall of the SASA

16.00 Keynote 2

Kevin C. Karnes (Emory University, United States): DJ Culture, Black Market Sounds, and Minimal Hardcore Sequencer

Music in Riga - with Excursions to Tallinn and Berlin - from 1975 to 2000

moderator: Jason Jedlička

Discussion

17:15 Coffee break

Great Hall of the SASA

17:30 Roundtable 1: New Books on Minimalism

Kerry O’Brien, William Robin: Documenting a Musical Movement

Patrick Nickelson: The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art Music, and Historiography in Dispute

Christophe Levaux: We Have Always Been Minimalists

moderator: John Pymm

Discussion

Great Hall of the Kolarac Endowment, Studentski trg 5

20:00 Sandra and Jeroen van Veen and LP Duo (Sonja Lončar and Andy Pavlov) - concert

program: Simeon ten Holt: Canto Ostinato

Performed on two pianos and two Duality Hybrid pianos

31.5.

09:00 Registration

Great Hall of the SASA, Knez Mihailova 35, 2nd floor

09:30 Session 10: Minimalist Intersections in North America and Japan

Chair: Jelena Novak

09:30 Twila Bakker (Bangor University, United Kingdom): Pond Study: an exploration of the details in Ann Southam’s Spatial View of a Pond

10:00 Zafer Özgen (University of Oslo, Norway): Minimalism and Programmatic Narratives in John Luther Adams’s Trilogy: Become River, Become Ocean, and Become Desert

10:30 Hiske Krammer (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands): Echoes from the Quarry: Voice as Interdisciplinary Emblem of the Traumatized Body in Meredith Monk’s Performance Quarry: an Opera in Three Movements

11:00 Rui Hara (Kyoto University of the Arts, Japan): On Japanese Minimalism: Examination of its Rise and Cultural/Social Contexts

Hall 2, 1st Floor

10:00 Session 11: Minimalism in Central/Eastern Europe

Chair: Miloš Bralović

10:00 Anna Dalos (Institute for Musicology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary): Young Hungarian Composers on the Path of Minimalism in the 1980s: The Group 180

10:30 Oana Andreica (The “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy Cluj-Napoca, Romania): Minimalist Orientations in Romanian Music: a Search for the Archetype

11:00 Sonja Lončar (Faculty of Music, University of Arts, Serbia) and Andrija Pavlović (Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia): Minimalism as a Bridge to (Neo) Classical Piano Music and Beyond

11:30 Coffee break

Great Hall of the SASA

12:00 Session 12: Minimalism, Pop and Electronic Music

Chair: David Garner

12:00 Holly Shone (Bangor University, United Kingdom): La noche de un minimalista? Towards a synthesis of pop and minimalism in Ludovico Einaudi’s music

12:30 Joseph Finkel (University of California Santa Cruz, United States): On the Pleateaux: Brian Eno, Harold Budd, and Ambient Music

13:00 Eric J. Isaacson (Indiana University Bloomington, United States): Steve Reich’s reuse of musical materials and compositonal techniques in Double Sextet (2007) - online

Hall 2, 1st Floor

12:00 Session 13: Serbian Minimalist Intersections (II)

Chair: Ivana Miladinović Prica

12:00 Ivana Ilić (Faculty of Music, University of Arts, Serbia): The Meaning of Repetition in Contemporary Opera: Three Perspectives by Serbian Women Composers

12:30 Jelena Novak (CESEM, Universidade NOVA Lisbon, Portugal) and Miroslav Miša Savić (Ensemble for Different New Music, Serbia): Phantom Composer, Lost Opera: The Case of Mihajlo from Peć by Miloš Petrović and Baroque as Forgery through Postminimalist Lens

13:00 Jelena Janković Beguš (Belgrade Festivals’ Center - CEBEF, Serbia): Vlastimir Trajković, the (non-)minimalist

13:30 Lunch break

AVA Center

15.00 Keynote 3

Elena Dubinets (London Philharmonic Orchestra, United Kingdom): What Do We Talk About in Times of War? On the Ukrainian Minimalism

moderator: Kevin Karnes

Discussion

Cultural Centre Parobrod, Kapetan Mišina 6a

18:30 Ensemble for Different New Music: Dragoljub Ilić, Andrej Negić, Nataša Penezić, Miroslav Savić - piano/keyboards

program: Miodrag Lazarov Pashu (1981): Vreme 3.1 [Time 3.1]

19:15 Break and Cocktails

Showing of The Belgrade Minimalists: Ensemble for Different New Music - 40 Years Later (2018) - documentary film

director: Srđan Janjuš

20:00 Pneuma Quartet: Dimitrije Beljanski - piano, Tetiana Tomić - violin, Stefan Milović - clarinet, Nina Henig Beljanski - cello

program: Dimitrije Beljanski (2023): Echoes of Ostinato, Miloš Raičković (1986): Dream Quartet, Faruk Mehić (2023): OCD, Vladimir Tošić (2001): Altus, Milivoje Pićurić (2021): Titex, Dimitrije Beljanski (2022): Cliffhanger

1.6.

Great Hall of the Music School Mokranjac, Dečanska 6

Lecture Recitals

moderator: Ivana Medić

10:00 Viktor Lazarov (University of Montreal, Canada): Stylistic Evolution and Diversity in Piano Music by Opus 4: 1988-2023

11:15 Paul David Kean (Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom): The Complete Solo Piano Music of John Adams: Evolutions in Style and Performance Practice

12:15 Break

Moderator: Paul David Kean

12:30 Ivana Medić (Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts): Minimalism as a Vehicle for Postmodern Spirituality: Old Indian Cantillation and Hilandar Bells by Vuk Kulenović

13:00 Miloš Raičković (Composer, independent researcher, Serbia/United States): Water Tones (1977): A Mini-Workshop and Performance

13:45 David Garner (University of South Carolina School of Music, United States): Timelike Curves: composing with microtiming

14:30 Lunch break

online (Streamed from the AVA Center, Knez Mihailova 36, 1st floor)

16:00 Session 14: Minimalism Worldwide

Chair: Monika Novaković

16:00 Michael Francis Duch (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Performing Minimalism(s)

16:30 Martin Ross (Independent Researcher, Canada): The Iconicity of Arvo Pärt’s Für Alina

17:00 José F. Ielpi (Conservatorio Astor Piazzolla de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina ): A translation of Beckett, two actors and a group of musicians: minimalism and absurdity in Carlos Mastropietro's Viejo final de partida

17:30 Laura Emmery (Emory University, United States): The Student Cultural Center in Belgrade as a Cultural Phenomenon and a Propagator of Yugoslav Experimental Minimalism

Hall of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Uzun Mirkova 1

20:00 Vladimir Milošević - piano) and Nemanja Stanković - cello

program: Philip Glass: Glassworks Opening No.1 (1981), I’m Going to Make a Cakefrom The Hours (2002) (arr. Michael Riesman), Piano Etude No. 2 (1995), Piano Etude No. 5 (1995/96), Piano Etude No. 6 (1996), Piano Etude No. 20 (2012), Songs and Poems for Solo Cello (2007), The Poet Acts from The Hours (2002) (trans. Miloš Bralović), Metamorphosis 2 (1988) (trans. Laura Emmery), Glassworks Closing (1981) (trans. Laura Emmery)

2.6.

Great Hall of the Kolarac Endowment, Studentski trg 5

11:00 Matinee Concert

program: Music by Miloš Raičković

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