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PSN 2011 conference
CMPCP's Performance Studies Network hosted its first International Conference at the University of Cambridge from 14 to 17 July 2011. Approximately 140 delegates from around the world attended the four-day event, which included the presentations of c.100 speakers in the form of individual papers, research reports, and special sessions. Professor Keith Sawyer gave a Keynote Paper entitled 'Creativity in performance: improvisation, ritual and collaboration' and an invited panel featuring the ensemble Metropolis explored 'the margins of idiomatic jazz: creativity in improvisation, performance and composition'. Delegates attended a concert by the renowned Endellion Quartet on Friday 15 July and a six-hour 'Total Performance Event' on Saturday 16 July; further details about the latter can be found here. Other performances were scattered through the conference programme, given by delegates themselves as well as by invited musicians. The main conference events were held at the Faculty of Music, 11 West Road; delegates were accommodated at nearby Robinson College, where other activities also took place.
Thanks to the generous support of the Music & Letters Trust, CMPCP was able to offer twelve bursaries of £125 each to doctoral research students to assist with the expenses incurred in attending the Performance Studies Network International Conference. CMPCP and the Performance Studies Network gratefully acknowledge the support that the Music & Letters Trust has provided.
Programme
The conference presentations directly or indirectly addressed one or more of CMPCP's key research questions:
- How is musical performance creative, and what knowledge is creatively embodied in musical performance?
- How does music in performance – and indeed the very act of performance – take shape over time?
- How does understanding musical performance as a creative practice vary across different global contexts, idioms and performance conditions (such as solo and ensemble, in the rehearsal room, recording studio and concert hall)?
- In what ways is creativity distributed across the conventional categories of composition, performance and improvisation?
The programme featured 21 parallel sessions on the following topics, in addition to the two plenary sessions referred to above:
- Improvisation
- Composer-performer collaborations
- Instruments and contexts
- Recording
- Contemporary music performance
- Performing recitative
- Shaping sound
- Optimising performance potential
- Shape, gesture, enactment
- Jazz
- Jazz in history
- Performers and (or) composers
- From score(s) to performance(s)
- Historical performance/recordings/Bach
- Experimentation in/and/or performance
- Learning/pedagogy
- Cross-cultural/multimedia performance
- The performer in performance
- Performance in/and history
- Ensemble performance
The full conference programme can be seen here.
PSN 2011 online resource
Select conference presentations are available by clicking on the following links:
PSN conferences 2013 and 2014
The second Performance Studies Network International Conference will be held at the University of Cambridge from 4 to 7 April 2013, followed by the third International Conference from 17 to 20 July 2014.
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