Organised by the Polish Composers' Union in collaboration with partners from the Visegrad Group, the International Academic Conference on Renewable Music will be held online on Zoom on 15-17 October 2024. Participation in the conference is free, registration opens on 1st October 2024!
With 2 keynotes, 8 sessions and almost 30 contributions from all over the world (including Austria, Brazil, Czechia, France, Georgia, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, the United States), the conference provides a forum of exchange between scholars inspired by the idea of ‘renewability’ in music. The term ‘renewable music’ was coined in reference to ‘renewable resources’, aiming at focusing attention on the global sustainability crisis and encouraging dialogue on this subject in the contemporary music community.
Prof. Makis Solomos from University Paris 8 will open the conference with a paper on music, ecology and the idea of degrowth in thinking about a sustainable future. On the first day, we will hear presentations on, among others, the concept of eco-music and acoustic ecology. The second day of the conference will be inaugurated by Prof. Marek Chołoniewski from the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow, who will translate the philosophical concept of rhizome into the field of “renewable music”. On this day, we will listen to talks on field recordings, the phenomenon of ekphrasis, methods of composition based on recycling, as well as an analysis of selected works (including Hildegard Westerkamp, Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil, Stefan Węgłowski). The last day of the conference will open with a discussion on sustainable strategies in leading international projects, held among partners and participants of the “Renewable Music” project. We will hear presentations on the financing of composers, the environmental responsibility of festivals, as well as proposals for the renewal of musical notation and the use of artificial intelligence in music creation.
The conference is a final stage of the ‘Renewable Music. V4 Composers for Sustainability’ project, co-funded by the European Union through its Creative Europe programme. It is held fully online in order to reach the widest possible audience from different parts of the world. The proceedings will be published online in open access, serving as a reference point for future research. Selected papers will be printed in the 22nd volume of ‘Musicology Today’, a double-blind peer reviewed journal published since 2004 by the Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw and the Polish Composers’ Union.
The conference will be held in English. Participation in the conference is free, but prior registration is required in order to gain access. The registration opens on 1st October 2024 on the project website (www.renmus.eu).
Agnieszka Cieślak-Krupa
Project coordinator
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
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