18TH INTERNATIONAL MUSIC THEORY CONFERENCE: PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC COMPOSING

2018 November 13–15, 10:00
LMTA Juozas Karosas Hall (Gedimino Ave. 42, Vilnius)

18TH INTERNATIONAL MUSIC THEORY CONFERENCE “PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC COMPOSING: LINKS BETWEEN AUDIATION AND COMPOSING”
Retrospective of the Century 

PROGRAMME

Concerts:
November 13, 18:00 – M. K. ČIURLIONIS DIFFERENTLY
November 14, 15:30 – LITHUANIANNESS TODAY IN THE LIGHT OF THE CENTENARY
November 15, 14:00 – CONCERT OF MODERN CARILLON MUSIC

Considering audiation and composition together is not prevalent in existing research, and thus provides a thought provoking intention in the field of music theory. Audiation is designed and usually referred to in educational contexts as an aptitude to hear and comprehend music even when the real sound is not present. It is a cognitive process by which the brain gives a meaning to musical sounds. Giving a sense to a sound is an essential condition for the emergence of particular composing techniques, styles or even the general features of entire historical periods. With the rapid development of technologies and their apparent influence on composing as well as the increasing manifestations of serial methods in contemporary music, the role of audiation in the creative process becomes a problematic issue. For this reason integrating audiation and composition into a common discourse is expected to foster an intellectual field embracing both composing dilemmas as well as educational issues. Special attention is paid to audiation facets of Lithuanian composers and their development in the retrospective of a century. 

Scholarly committee of the conference:

Prof. dr. Pavel PUŞCAŞ (Music Academy Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Prof. Miloš Zatkalik (University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia)
Prof. Roger Redgate (Goldsmiths, University of London, England)
Dr. Bert Van Herck (New England Conservatory of Music, USA)
Dr. Jānis Petraškevičs (Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Latvia)
Dr. Martin Vishnick (United Kingdom)
Prof. dr. Rimantas Janeliauskas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)
Prof. dr. Antanas Kučinskas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)
Assoc. prof. dr. Mārtiņš Viļums (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)
Assoc. prof. Marius Baranauskas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)

Coordinators of the conference: Andrius Maslekovas, Aistė Vaitkevičiūtė. Contact e-mail: pmc.lmta@gmail.com.