Here’s another event I’m going to try to get to:
Creativity, Innovation and Labour in Music
A symposiumMonday June 22nd – symposium, 9.30 – 5.00
Tuesday June 23rd – workshop on developing a network, 9.30 – 11.30The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
Central Meeting RoomsOrganisers
Dot Miell, Mark Doffman, Mark Banks, Jason Toynbee, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open
University
Raymond MacDonald, Department of Psychology, Glasgow Caledonian UniversityInterdisciplinary research into music at the intersection of creativity, innovation and labour is an
emerging topic that presents many challenges for researchers. For example:• the theme of labour calls attention to musical work, economic exploitation and the everyday
processes of music making,• innovation takes in the problem of the nature of the new in different genres, but also
questions of how musical innovation gets evaluated, rewarded or ignored,• and creativity gestures towards issues of origination and emergence, artifice and authenticity,
the individual and the collective.This symposium brings together experts from across the disciplines in order to develop a more
coherent analysis of how these themes converge. The format consists of a series of presentations
each followed by discussion with the aim of advancing our understanding of the topic, and
establishing an informal research network to take things forward – a workshop on the Tuesday
morning is to plan next steps.Speakers
Martin Cloonan, Glasgow University – Creating live music: an industrial perspectiveDon Knox, Glasgow Caledonian University – Who are we innovating for? The need for
interdisciplinary input in setting goals for music information retrievalBennett Hogg, University of Newcastle – Working through the new
Fabian Holt, University of Roskilde – Creativity and innovation in contemporary live music
productionMatt Stahl, University of Western Ontario – Recording artists, employment, domination and
democratization
One Response to “Creativity, Innovation and Labour in Music”
Composer, Academic, Teacher and Researcher Roberto prof. Rusconi Cultural Refugee in South East Asia
I was looking for someone on mi same page!
Please read my comment and let me now if we can join forces somehow!
“ Recently a research document published by the European Comunity on Creativity VS Culture and Education* has underlined the major difference between the Western and Eastern attitude towards Artistic Production : the western world is looking at the artistic outcome as a product that needs to be appreciated by large masses and sold for different purpose; on the other hand the artistic creation is seen by the eastern world as a way to reveal something that has never been there before and is a supreme mean to understand the inner meaning of the self and its life.
As a composer, musician and educator living in the XXI century I feel as my duty the necessity of making a point out of years of wandering in the European Classical and Contemporary Music World : the recent political appeals to have a culture which supports itself trough means belonging to the capitalistic-commercial-business world is killing not only our creativity and our souls but also destroying years of history in which the sound was King and the Music was Queen.All the people interested in feeling the importance of Sound as a revelation tool sometime so close to the spiritual experience to become magic are invited to join the discussion