{"id":210,"date":"2024-10-03T05:46:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T05:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/?page_id=210"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:50:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:50:02","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The conference will take place in the lecture hall of the Reykjav\u00edk Academy, Hafnarstr\u00e6ti 5 (third floor) on 9 and 10 October 2026. There is no conference registration fee. Coffee and snacks will be provided during afternoon breaks.<\/span><\/p>

Friday 9 October:<\/span><\/b><\/p>

11-12:30: Welcome; Musical Modernism in Iceland<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>

\u00c1rni Heimir Ing\u00f3lfsson (Reykjav\u00edk Academy): Modernism in Icelandic Music: Composers, Reception, Influence<\/span><\/p>

Helgi Rafn Ingvarsson (Reykjav\u00edk Academy): Aleatory Techniques in Icelandic Modernist Works<\/span><\/p>

12:30-14:00: Lunch break<\/span><\/b><\/p>

14-15:30: Modernisms Around the Globe<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/b><\/p>

Bj\u00f6rn Heile (University of Glasgow): <\/span>Think Globally, Musick Locally: Global and Local (Sub-) networks of Serial Composition since WWII<\/span><\/p>

Andrew Shenton (Boston University): Sacred Modernism at the Periphery: Liturgical Experiment and Musical Modernity after 1945<\/span><\/p>

Emily Abrams Ansari (Western University, Canada): <\/span>Modernist Techniques and 1970s Feminism in Canada: The Music of Ann Southam<\/span><\/p>

15:30-15:45: Coffee break<\/span><\/b><\/p>

15:45-17:50: Analytical Approaches<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/b><\/p>

Nick Poelwijk (New York University): Donald Keats and American Modernism: The Piano Sonata (1971) as a Case Study in Neoclassical Peripherality<\/span><\/p>

Carl Tertio Druml (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna): Fortspinnung, Gestural Time and a Descent into Madness: Salvatore Sciarrino\u2019s Manipulation of Time in his Quaderno di Strada<\/i> (2003) and his Opera MacBeth<\/i> (2002)<\/span><\/p>

Helga Karen (Sibelius Academy): Music Analysis in Action: The Practical Application of Modernism Music Analysis in Performance-Based Research. A Case Study of Karlheinz Stockhausen\u2019s Klavierst\u00fccke<\/i><\/span><\/p>

Federico Favali (Independent composer\/scholar): Fragment and Crystallization: Poetics of Frost in Inverno in-ver <\/i>by Castiglioni<\/span><\/p>

Saturday 10 October:<\/span><\/b><\/p>

10:00-12:00: Cultural Transfer and Reception<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>

Marilyn Nonken (New York University): Cage, Messiaen & the Origins of Spectral Music<\/span><\/p>

D\u00f6rte Schmidt (Universit<\/span>\u00e4<\/span>t der K<\/span>\u00fc<\/span>nste, Berlin)<\/span>: How Fluxus Came to East Asia. Exile and the Global Transfer of Experimental Avant-Garde after WWII<\/span><\/p>

Floris Meens (Radboud University): No Place for Neutrality. Dutch Musical Infrastructures, (Inter)national Modernism, and the Consequences of War, 1888\u20131960.<\/span><\/p>

Magdalena Marija Mea\u0161i\u0107 (University of Rijeka): <\/span>From a Soviet Perspective: Insights into the Music Biennale Zagreb and New Music in the Journal Sovetskaya muz\u00efka<\/i><\/span><\/p>

12:00-13:15: Lunch break<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>

13:15-14:45: Polish Modernism and the International Scene<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>

Iwona Lindstedt (University of Warsaw): J\u00f3zef Koffler and the ISCM: Music, Networks, and the Circulation of Modernism in Interwar Europe<\/span><\/p>

Beata Boles\u0142awska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw): <\/span>Between an International Scene of Modern Music and the Homeland: the Polish Section of the ISCM in the Face of Cold War <\/span><\/p>

Kinga Kiwa\u0142a (Penderecki Academy of Music, Krakow): The Quality of Sound in Polish Music after 1960: Paradigms, Attitudes, Transformations<\/span><\/p>

14:45-15:00: Coffee break<\/span><\/b><\/p>

15:00-16:30: Modernism in the Baltic States<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>

J\u0101nis Kudi\u0146\u0161 (J\u0101zeps V\u012btols Latvian Academy of Music): Moderated Modernism and Missing Avant-Garde: The Distinctive Specificity of Latvian Art Music\u2019s Historical Experience between 1945 and 1980<\/span><\/p>

Rima Povilionien\u0117 (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre): Lithuanian Electronic Music Experiments in the 1960s-70s in-between the Underground and Art-Music Positioning<\/span><\/p>

Brigitta Davidjants (Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre): Negotiating Modernity through Popular Music in Soviet Estonia<\/span><\/p>

17:00: concert at ErkiT\u00ed\u00f0 festival, Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum\/Hafnarh\u00fas (optional)<\/span><\/b><\/p>

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\u00c1rni Heimir Ing\u00f3lfsson presented a lecture titled \u201cCreating Musical Modernism in Mid-Twentieth Century Iceland\u201d at the annual meeting of the Royal Musical Association (London, September 2024), and the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society (Chicago, November 2024).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Events Musical Modernism in a Global Perspective: Conference Program The conference will take place in the lecture hall of the Reykjav\u00edk Academy, Hafnarstr\u00e6ti 5 (third floor) on 9 and 10 October 2026. There is no conference registration fee. Coffee and snacks will be provided during afternoon breaks. Friday 9 October: 11-12:30: Welcome; Musical Modernism in Iceland \u00c1rni Heimir Ing\u00f3lfsson (Reykjav\u00edk Academy): Modernism in Icelandic Music: Composers, Reception, Influence Helgi Rafn Ingvarsson (Reykjav\u00edk Academy): Aleatory Techniques in Icelandic Modernist Works 12:30-14:00: Lunch break 14-15:30: Modernisms Around the Globe Bj\u00f6rn Heile (University of Glasgow): Think Globally, Musick Locally: Global and Local (Sub-) networks of Serial Composition since WWII Andrew Shenton (Boston University): Sacred Modernism at the Periphery: Liturgical Experiment and Musical Modernity after 1945 Emily Abrams Ansari (Western University, Canada): Modernist Techniques and 1970s Feminism in Canada: The Music of Ann Southam 15:30-15:45: Coffee break 15:45-17:50: Analytical Approaches Nick Poelwijk (New York University): Donald Keats and American Modernism: The Piano Sonata (1971) as a Case Study in Neoclassical Peripherality Carl Tertio Druml (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna): Fortspinnung, Gestural Time and a Descent into Madness: Salvatore Sciarrino\u2019s Manipulation of Time in his Quaderno di Strada (2003) and his Opera MacBeth (2002) Helga Karen (Sibelius Academy): Music Analysis in Action: The Practical Application of Modernism Music Analysis in Performance-Based Research. A Case Study of Karlheinz Stockhausen\u2019s Klavierst\u00fccke Federico Favali (Independent composer\/scholar): Fragment and Crystallization: Poetics of Frost in Inverno in-ver by Castiglioni Saturday 10 October: 10:00-12:00: Cultural Transfer and Reception Marilyn Nonken (New York University): Cage, Messiaen & the Origins of Spectral Music D\u00f6rte Schmidt (Universit\u00e4t der K\u00fcnste, Berlin): How Fluxus Came to East Asia. Exile and the Global Transfer of Experimental Avant-Garde after WWII Floris Meens (Radboud University): No Place for Neutrality. Dutch Musical Infrastructures, (Inter)national Modernism, and the Consequences of War, 1888\u20131960. Magdalena Marija Mea\u0161i\u0107 (University of Rijeka): From a Soviet Perspective: Insights into the Music Biennale Zagreb and New Music in the Journal Sovetskaya muz\u00efka 12:00-13:15: Lunch break 13:15-14:45: Polish Modernism and the International Scene Iwona Lindstedt (University of Warsaw): J\u00f3zef Koffler and the ISCM: Music, Networks, and the Circulation of Modernism in Interwar Europe Beata Boles\u0142awska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw): Between an International Scene of Modern Music and the Homeland: the Polish Section of the ISCM in the Face of Cold War Kinga Kiwa\u0142a (Penderecki Academy of Music, Krakow): The Quality of Sound in Polish Music after 1960: Paradigms, Attitudes, Transformations 14:45-15:00: Coffee break 15:00-16:30: Modernism in the Baltic States J\u0101nis Kudi\u0146\u0161 (J\u0101zeps V\u012btols Latvian Academy of Music): Moderated Modernism and Missing Avant-Garde: The Distinctive Specificity of Latvian Art Music\u2019s Historical Experience between 1945 and 1980 Rima Povilionien\u0117 (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre): Lithuanian Electronic Music Experiments in the 1960s-70s in-between the Underground and Art-Music Positioning Brigitta Davidjants (Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre): Negotiating Modernity through Popular Music in Soviet Estonia 17:00: concert at ErkiT\u00ed\u00f0 festival, Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum\/Hafnarh\u00fas (optional) \u00a0 For more information, please contact mim@akademia.is Lectures in London and Chicago \u00c1rni Heimir Ing\u00f3lfsson presented a lecture titled \u201cCreating Musical Modernism in Mid-Twentieth Century Iceland\u201d at the annual meeting of the Royal Musical Association (London, September 2024), and the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society (Chicago, November 2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-210","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}