Fourth Performance Studies Network International Conference, 14-17 July 2016
- 2016-07-17
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Different sessions of the conference featured topics as diverse as creative experimentation, networking technologies, cultural identity, relations between analysis and performance, historically-informed performance, issues of performance pedagogy, performance art as a listening experience, recording practices, electronic/electroacoustic music, composer-performer collaborations, performance philosophy, virtuosity, authorship and agency, concert programming and others.
Two keynote lectures-concerts of the conference were related to ensemble performance: Neil Heyde with the Kreutzer Quartet, Michael Finnissy and Laurie Bamon, on ‘Inventing an ensemble identity’, and Peter Wiegold with Notes Inégales and guest artists Hyelim Kim (Korean taegŭm flute) and Cheng Yu (Chinese pipa/qu-chin), on ‘Leadership and ownership’.
More information can be found at the conference’s website: https://psn2016.org/