For the 53rd time, the Musicology Section of the Polish Composers' Union invites you to the scientific conference "Non-Absolut Music," featuring the Polish community of musicologists and music theorists. This year, the conference, co-organized by the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, will take place at the Academy in Bydgoszcz and the Palace-Park Complex in Ostromecko from October 3 to 5, 2024.
Addressing this extensive and multi-faceted phenomenon, a 50-member group representing all Polish institutions involved in studying and promoting musical culture will present the results of their work, thoughts, and interpretations. Will they follow the idea of Marcin Trzęsiok, who wrote in the epilogue of his essay "On the Threefold Function of Music and Language": "if, imitating Orpheus, we tune ourselves, like a string of his lyre, to the fullness of existence—accepting life as it is, thereby loosening the knots of desires that bind us to the world perceived through the senses—we will feel like a membrane through which fluids from many dimensions penetrate, generating such vibrations"? Or perhaps, like Esa-Pekka Salonen, they will challenge "the very German concept of absolute music of E.T.A. Hoffmann and Arthur Schopenhauer," with the thought that we continually create new meanings, identifying phenomena and naming them...?
It is worth experiencing this by participating in the conference proceedings, which will be inaugurated by a lecture from the special guest, Professor Stefan Keym from the University of Leipzig.
The conference will be accompanied by a concert from the outstanding Herbert Piano Trio, featuring music of composers associated with the Bydgoszcz Academy of Music: Hanna Kulenty, Zbigniew Bargielski, Łukasz Godyla, Marcin Kopczyński, and Paweł Kwapiński.
Barbara Mielcarek-Krzyżanowska
Scientifc committee of the Conference
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
Detailed programme: https://www.amuz.bydgoszcz.pl/wydarzenia/muzyka-nie-absolutna-53-konferencja-muzykologiczna-zkp/
