China in composition and music theory since 1949

Symposium / seminar, sponsored by Eurasia Pacific Uninet

Photo: ©Katharina Blassnigg

The symposium / seminar on 15 and 16 January 2016 investigates the way of composing and music theory in the Maoist China, being the third event within the scope of the project "The Cultural Transfer of Central European Music Theory to China".

What transformations have the compositional techniques, the aesthetic and manual / music-theoretical positions undergone on their way from Europe to Maoistic China? The focus of the symposium is on the years of cultural revolution (around 1970).

European composers looking for a politicized avantgarde imagined China after 1949, when hardly anything went to the outside world. Which compositional relation to Chinese music appeared in Europe back then?

Participants

With contributions by Cheong Wai-Ling, John Lam, Lo Kai Yin, Lai Hei Yeong (Hong Kong), Zhang Wei, Jiang Zhiguo, Lu Ping, Wang Chenling, Zheng Ququ, Zhou Mingkun (Shanghai), Hong Ding (Shenyang), Odila Schröder (Heidelberg), Frieder Reininghaus (Cologne/Vienna), Nikola Komatovic (Belgrad/Vienna), Huang Chun, Peter Tiefengraber and Gesine Schröder (Vienna).

Participation is free of charge. There is no need to register.

• To the website of the organizing Department of Composition and Electroacoustics (German)

China in composition and music theory since 1949
Friday, 15 January 2016
Room D0263 (11am – 3pm)
Room C0211 (3pm – 7pm)

Saturday, 16 January 2016, 10am
Room C0211
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Vienna