{"id":212,"date":"2024-10-03T05:46:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T05:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/?page_id=212"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:51:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:51:02","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Musical Modernism in a Global Perspective: Conference Program<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The\nconference will take place in the lecture hall of the Reykjav\u00edk Academy,\nHafnarstr\u00e6ti 5 (third floor) on 9 and 10 October 2026. There is no conference\nregistration fee. Coffee and snacks will be provided during afternoon breaks.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marilyn\nNonken (New York University): Cage, Messiaen & the Origins of Spectral\nMusic<\/o:p><\/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\nof Experimental Avant-Garde after WWII<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>

Floris\nMeens (Radboud University): No Place for Neutrality. Dutch Musical\nInfrastructures, (Inter)national Modernism, and the Consequences of War,\n1888\u20131960.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Call for Papers: Musical Modernism in a Global Perspective<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Conference in Reykjav\u00edk, Iceland, 9\u201310 October, 2026<\/span><\/p>

The Call for Papers for the conference \u201cMusical Modernism in a Global Perspective\u201d is now open. The conference will take place in Reykjav\u00edk, Iceland on 9 and 10 October 2026, at the Reykjav\u00edk Academy (Hafnarstr\u00e6ti 5, Reykjav\u00edk).<\/span><\/p>

The conference aims to explore the notion of musical modernism through a wide lens, including geography, musical style, aesthetics, reception, politics, transmission, and institutionalization. Studies of modernist traditions in countries or cultures that might be regarded as \u201cperipheral\u201d are particularly welcomed, as are studies that offer new perspectives on modernism in areas already well represented in musicological scholarship. Particular attention will be placed on the period ca. 1945\u20131980, although contributions outside of this time frame are also welcome.<\/span><\/p>

The conference is organized by the Reykjav\u00edk Academy, with funding from the Icelandic Research Fund, and is open to ALL scholars, students, and individuals interested in the topic. In conjunction with the conference, the music festival ErkiT\u00ed\u00f0 will take place, devoted to music by some of Iceland\u2019s leading modernist composers.<\/span><\/p>

We invite interested participants to submit a paper proposal (max. 300 words), accompanied by a short biographical note (max. 100 words) by 25 May to: mim@akademia.is. Each lecture will be 20 minutes + 10 minutes of discussion. Applicants will be notified by 15 June.<\/span><\/p>

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\u00c1rni Heimir Ing\u00f3lfsson, Helgi Rafn Ingvarsson, Tui Hirv, Tinna \u00deorsteinsd\u00f3ttir.<\/span><\/p>

This conference is part of the research project \u201cModernism in Icelandic Music,\u201d see: https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/<\/a>
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In April 2025, \u00c1rni Heimir Ing\u00f3lfsson, the project\u2019s Principal Investigator, will give a series of lectures in Tokyo, Japan, including a lecture at Waseda University on the influence on Japanese music on Icelandic modernist scores in the 1970s. These include Atli Heimir Sveinsson\u2019s Flute Concerto<\/em>, Xanties<\/em> for flute and piano, and Japanese Poems<\/em> for mixed choir and guitar, as well as \u00deorkell Sigurbj\u00f6rnsson\u2019s Kalais <\/em>for solo flute. The lecture is sponsored by the Japanese Society for Musicology. Ing\u00f3lfsson\u2019s stay in Japan will also include meetings with local musicians and musicologists, in an attempt to examine more closely the influence of Japanese music and \u201corientalism\u201d in general in Icelandic modernist music, particularly during the 1970s.\u00a0<\/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

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News 08.06.2026 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) For more information, please contact mim@akademia.is 03.03.2026 Call for Papers: Musical Modernism in a Global Perspective Conference in Reykjav\u00edk, Iceland, 9\u201310 October, 2026 The Call for Papers for the conference \u201cMusical Modernism in a Global Perspective\u201d is now open. The conference will take place in Reykjav\u00edk, Iceland on 9 and 10 October 2026, at the Reykjav\u00edk Academy (Hafnarstr\u00e6ti 5, Reykjav\u00edk). The conference aims to explore the notion of musical modernism through a wide lens, including geography, musical style, aesthetics, reception, politics, transmission, and institutionalization. Studies of modernist traditions in countries or cultures that might be regarded as \u201cperipheral\u201d are particularly welcomed, as are studies that offer new perspectives on modernism in areas already well represented in musicological scholarship. Particular attention will be placed on the period ca. 1945\u20131980, although contributions outside of this time frame are also welcome. The conference is organized by the Reykjav\u00edk Academy, with funding from the Icelandic Research Fund, and is open to ALL scholars, students, and individuals interested in the topic. In conjunction with the conference, the music festival ErkiT\u00ed\u00f0 will take place, devoted to music by some of Iceland\u2019s leading modernist composers. We invite interested participants to submit a paper proposal (max. 300 words), accompanied by a short biographical note (max. 100 words) by 25 May to: mim@akademia.is. Each lecture will be 20 minutes + 10 minutes of discussion. Applicants will be notified by 15 June. Organizing committee: \u00c1rni Heimir Ing\u00f3lfsson, Helgi Rafn Ingvarsson, Tui Hirv, Tinna \u00deorsteinsd\u00f3ttir. This conference is part of the research project \u201cModernism in Icelandic Music,\u201d see: https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/ 05.03.2025 Research and Lectures in Japan In April 2025, \u00c1rni Heimir Ing\u00f3lfsson, the project\u2019s Principal Investigator, will give a series of lectures in Tokyo, Japan, including a lecture at Waseda University on the influence on Japanese music on Icelandic modernist scores in the 1970s. These include Atli Heimir Sveinsson\u2019s Flute Concerto, Xanties for flute and piano, and Japanese Poems for mixed choir and guitar, as well as \u00deorkell Sigurbj\u00f6rnsson\u2019s Kalais for solo flute. The lecture is sponsored by the Japanese Society for Musicology. Ing\u00f3lfsson\u2019s stay in Japan will also include meetings with local musicians and musicologists, in an attempt to examine more closely the influence of Japanese music and \u201corientalism\u201d in general in Icelandic modernist music, particularly during the 1970s.\u00a0 05.03.2025 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). Lorem Ipsum Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. 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