CFP: Orpheus Seminar "From Authorship and Spectatorship to Usership in Music" (deadline extended)

*Call for proposals: Orpheus Seminar 21-22 Feb. 2019*
*"From Authorship and Spectatorship to Usership in Music"*

**Deadline extended to 8 December**

Keynotes:
*Stephen Wright* (art theorist, whose work includes of 'The Lexicon of
Usership') & panel consisting of *Jeroen Vanacker* (Artistic Director,
Concertgebouw Bruges) and *Cecilia Wee* (Curator and Head of Artists'
Advisory Services, ArtsAdmin, London).

Proposals (c. 200 words) for 20-minute presentations are invited from
artists/researchers working in all areas of music practice and theory.
Alternative modes of presentation, including performance-based
presentation/demonstration/film, are particularly welcome. The organisers
are particularly keen to receive proposals that address current musical
practice in relation to ‘user culture’ across industry and society.

Topics might include:

   - perspectives on usership in music from other arts, other disciplines -
   fine art, live art, theatre etc.
   - historical and ethnomusicological concepts of musical use and the
   ‘user’. Is this issue entirely modern, Western?
   - consequences of usership for aesthetic or critical criteria in music
   studies
   - the intersection of usership with rhetorical approaches to older music
   - future virtuosity, future expertise in user-oriented musical
   performance
   - socio-political implications of music in a ‘usership economy’
   - creating dialogue with ‘users’ through alternative structures for
   education, societies, festivals, labels, outreach
   - ethical issues surrounding different modes of usership in music
   - musical activity after the concert/new modes of engagement
   - going beyond presentational gimmick to a state of real transformation
   - the roles of consensus and individualism in a usership culture
   - the role and relevance of Western Art Music within a usership culture

Convenors: Jonathan Impett ([email protected]) and
Nicholas Brown ([email protected])

Please upload proposals by *8 December 2018*.

More info:
orpheusinstituut.be/en/news-and-events/call-for-proposals-orpheus-seminar-feb-2019

*Orpheus Instituut / advanced studies & research in music*
*Korte Meer 12, 9000 Ghent, Belgium *
*www.orpheusinstituut.be <http://www.orpheusinstituut.be/>*

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