In today’s art music landscape, curation is a concept of great scope and pressing significance. Far more than just a presenter’s choice of program, an act of curation is an intricate aggregate of artistic choices that can be performed by every actor in the music industry. With these artistic choices, artists, presenters, and even audience members take position in a vast web of ramifications that run the gamut from questions of artistry, to philosophy, economics, and social issues.
This research day focuses on the topic of curation in the field of new music. It presents three perspectives: Featured speaker Jessie Cox is a composer, drummer, and scholar who inscribes his work in the aspirations of Afrofuturism; Tom De Cock and Maarten Stragier are performers all too happy to break out of their traditional role in the creative process; and Maarten Quanten is a contemporary music programmer at De Bijloke, one of Belgium’s foremost concert halls.
Programme
14:00-15:00
Interview with Maarten Quanten
On emancipating 21st century music from of the 19th century concert hall legacy
15:00-16:00
Presentation Jessie Cox (PhD candidate at Columbia University):
Afrofuturism’s Implications on Musical Space-Time Travel
16:00-17:00
Conversation with Tom De Cock and Maarten Stragier
Collective creation: the wide ramifications of changing relations in musical production
