2015 BENDING BAROQUE

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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BENDING BAROQUE

THE NEW BAROQUE ORGAN AT THE ORGELPARK

 

 

 

 

The Orgelpark is building a new organ: its working title is the ‘New Baroque Organ’. The sources of inspiration for this new organ are the organs at Göteborg (Örgryte Nya Kirka, 2000) and Piteå (Acusticum, 2012). The New Baroque Organ is meant to ‘look back’ the way the Göteborg organ does, providing the organist with the look, feel, and touch of an organ that organ builder Zacharias Hildebrandt, friend of Johann Sebastian Bach, would have built in the Orgelpark. At the same time, though, the New Baroque Organ will look forward in ways suggested by the Piteån organ: it will be playable by a digital interface, allowing organists to use the sound palette of the organ in completely new ways. By doing so, they will be able to ‘bend’ the organ’s baroque sound, in a way comparable to those familiar in the international ‘circuit bending’ community.

 

The New Baroque Organ project started in 2012, and will be completed in October 2017. Meanwhile, the Orgelpark will dedicate its annual international symposia to the project. Whereas the 2014 symposium discussed the plans with organ experts and organists, the 2015 symposium opens up the field to other relevant disciplines, including Artistic Research, Sound/Sonic Studies, and Science and Technology Studies.

 

This year the symposium covers 10 sessions in total, two concerts, and lots of music in between. Each of the 10 sessions will be dedicated to a single topic, in order to secure ample time for discussion. The conference will be organized loosely around three main topics: Making Sound, Performing Sound, and Listening to Sound. Of course Sound may very well be Music here.

 

We are very proud to present keynote speeches by leading scholars, such as Trevor Pinch (Cornell University, Science and Technology Studies / Sound Studies), Marcel Cobussen (Leiden University, Artistic Research / Sound Studies), Randall Harlow (University of Northern Iowa), Paulo de Assis (Orpheus Institute Ghent), and many others. The symposium strives to open up boundaries between disciplines and make them mutually beneficial. The aim is to enthuse discussions, inspire critical approaches, and, of course, to make the New Baroque Organ concept even better by doing so.

 

We welcome you warmly to Amsterdam, and wish you a good and rewarding time!

 

Hans Fidom [Orgelpark Research Program / VU University Amsterdam]

Peter Peters [Maastricht University]

Henk Borgdorff [Royal Conservatory The Hague]

Julia Kursell [University of Amsterdam]

Darryl Cressman [Maastricht University]

 

 

 

THURSDAY JUNE 4 

Music

Music Moving On Second: An algorithmic composition by Robert van Heumen 

 

Session 1

Introduction

Hans Fidom, Peter Peters

 

Session 2

Keynote: Hyper Organs / The Future of Acoustic Music

Randall Harlow

 

Session 3

Documentary: Recorder Making Pioneers (Daniël Brüggen)

Discussion / Moderation: Julia Kursell

 

Concert

‘Bending Bach’

 

 

FRIDAY JUNE 5 

Music & Lecture

The First Law of Kipple explained

Composer Robert van Heumen explains the origin and workings of the composition 

 

Session 4

Keynote: The Sound of Bent Circuits: Distorted Imaginaries of Instruments

and Technologies

Trevor Pinch

 

Session 5

Presentation: Recreating Musical Cultures of the Past for the 21^st Century 

Helen Piel, Arjen van der Heide, Sjoerd Bollebakker, Alix Rufas Ripol, Denise Petzold, Veerle Spronck, Maximilian Freiherr von Toppolczan und Spaetgen (Research Master

Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology, Maastricht University)

 

Music

Dragon IV

Composer Michael Bonaventure will explain how he realised the composition by programming the Sauer organ with its unique capabilities

 

Session 6

Keynote: Regimes of Listening

Marcel Cobussen

 

Session 7

Discussion: Listening. opened with a presentation by Raviv Ganchrow: Spatial Refraction: Addressing the "Where" in Radio

With Darryl Cressman, Robert van Heumen, Laurens de Man

Moderation: Peter Peters

 

Concert

21st century technology & organs

 

 

SATURDAY JUNE 6 

Music

The Sauer organ, MIDI control, and MIDI effects

Robert van Heumen demonstrates the possibilities of remote controlling the Sauer organ

 

Session 8

Discussion: Crisis?

Opened with a presentation by Johannes Boer: Reviving Monteverdi in his own words

With Wim Diepenhorst, Ibo Ortgies, Hans-Ola Ericsson

Moderation: Henk Borgdorff

 

Session 9

Keynote: Music Experiment 21

 Raviv Gangrow

 

Music

Interaction

Organ player Michael Bonaventure and laptoppist Robert van Heumen 

 

Session10

Closing debate

 

Music

Presentation and concert: Miniature as mirror

Quirijn van Regteren Altena & Ernst Oosterveld