2012 ORGAN AESTHETICS

I N T E R N A T I O N A L

O R G E L P A R K

S Y M P O S I U M

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POINT & COUNTERPOINT

MUSIC PHILOSOPHICAL VOICES FROM THE LOW COUNTRIES

 

 

 

In 2012, the International Orgelpark Symposium took a modest form: one day instead of three days thinkers and musickers gathered in the Orgelpark, on November 23. The Orgelpark organized the symposium in cooperation with the Dutch Association for Aesthetics (Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica), and focused on the idea that music might be considered installation art: an idea that Albert van der Schoot suggested to Hans Fidom, who used it as the foundation for his work at the Orgelpark (Orgelpark Research Program) and the Vrije Universiteit (Chair Organ Studies).

 

The symposium took place at the Vrije Universiteit (morning) and the Orgelpark (afternoon and evening).

 

 

LECTURES / Moderator Hans Maes (University of Kent)

Hans Fidom (Vrije Universiteit/Orgelpark)

Music as Installation Art

 

Albert van der Schoot (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Quibus affectibus? Johannes Kepler as musicologist

 

Rob van Gerwen (Universiteit Utrecht)

Music as an art

 

Marlies de Munck (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Music and Mystic: towards a philosohpy of musical engagement

 

Oane Reitsma (Vrije Universiteit)

Religious music: content, form, or experience?

 

Erik Heijerman (Vrije Universiteit)

Music and Metaphor

 

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION (PERIPATHETIC)

Moderator Sander van Maas (Universiteit Utrecht/Universiteit van Amsterdam)

 

CONCERT

Jörg Abbing and his organ students at the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken improvise together to the silent movie  Carmen (1915) van Cecil B. DeMille, playing almost all the instruments at the Orgelpark