PPS 2022
This year, the artistic research festival Polyphonic Performance Spaces enters its fifth edition. An international lineup of researchers once more descends on Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel to challenge our preconceptions of musical practice. Over the course of a week, Polyphonic Performance Spaces 2022 will challenge your expectations of the relationship between music and research, between science and practice, between playing and experimenting. More than twenty international experts will offer you a kaleidoscope of artistic research practices by exploring common and less common sounds, spaces, and performances.
In collaboration with Brussels Arts Platform.
Download the entire programme booklet here.
Programme & Registration
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Monday 5 December |
Who? |
Location & registration? |
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10:00 - 12:00 |
Lecture: Soliloquy Cycle—Sweet and/or Sour | Thomas Simaku |
Room 042, Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels. |
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14:00 - |
Masterclass |
Thomas Simaku
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Room 041, Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels. |
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13:00 - 15:00 |
Lecture: Spacial Hearing, an Interactive Lecture |
Serge Verstockt | Small Concert Hall, Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels. No registration. |
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Early Music Online Research Day. Beyond the Score: Evidence on Performance Practice from Extra-Musical SourcesIn collaboration with Zentrum für Alte Musik Köln (ZAMUS) |
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ONLINE, via ZOOM Registration for the entire day. Registration is possible until the 2nd of December! Everybody will receive the link on December 2nd. |
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Chair Opening Address | Sigrid T’Hooft | |
| 10:10 - 11:25 | A Case Study in Instrumentation Practices around 1600: Michael Praetorius’s “Orchestration” of Egressus Jesus by Giaches De Wert |
Peter Van Heyghen | |
| 11:40 - 12:55 | Conversations with "The Ghost in the Machine": Interrogating and Learning from the Performance Practice of Eighteenth-Century Mechanical Musical Instruments | Emily Baines | |
| 14:00 - 15:15 | Staging “Euridice” (1600): Theatre, Sets, and Music in Late Renaissance Florence | Tim Carter & Francesca Fantappiè |
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| 15:30 - 16:45 | Historical Embodiment: The Performer’s Body as a Tool in Musical Interpretation Research | Kai Köpp | |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Round Table |
Time |
Tuesday 6 December |
Who? |
Location & registration? |
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10:00 - 17:00 |
Masterclass: Live Electronics | Serge Verstockt |
Room 140, Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels. |
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Romantic piano performance tradition(s) |
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Small Concert Hall, Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels. |
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10:00 - 11:00 |
Lecture-Performance: From Performance to Notation: Experiments with Romantic Piano Recordings |
Philippe Lamouris | |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
Lecture: Coloring with Timing |
Bobby Mitchell |
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| 12:00 - 13:15 | Recital: Whimsical Fantasies | Marco Mantovani | |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Lecture-Performance: Should we play with both hands together, or should we not? | Jan Michiels | |
| 15:30 - 18:30 | Workshop: Open Table Discussion | ||
| 19:30 - 20:45 | Scriabin Recital: Metamorphosis | Nuno Cernadas |
Time |
Wednesday 7 December |
Who? |
Location & registration? |
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13:00 - 16:00 |
ASMR Meditation CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS |
Benjamin Van Esser |
CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS |
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The 19th Century Salon -
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09:30 - 11:30 |
Keynote Session |
Introduction by Jeroen Billiet / George Kennaway / Inja Stanovic / Emily Worthington |
Room 071, Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels. No registration. |
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11:45 - 12:45 |
Specialist Course with the Tutors |
Jeroen Billiet and Emily Worthington: winds |
KCB, Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels. Various classrooms. |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Group 1 - 3 Workshops: Chamber Music Alternating |
Rooms 150, 041, 140, Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels. |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Discussion: Use of historical sources in Romantic Performance | Tutors and KCB teachers, students and researchers |
Room 071, Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels. |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Group 4 - 5 Workshops: Chamber Music Alternating |
Rooms 150, 041,140 Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels. |
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Jazz Days: Jazz Analysis as Practice
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Small Concert Hall, Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels. No registration. |
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| 10:00 - 11:30 |
Lecture: Analysing Pre-Learnt and Idiosyncratic Elements in Jazz Performance | Robert Burke | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Lecture: Gil Evans: Personal and Analytical Perspectives | Laurent Cugny |
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Thursday 8 December |
Who? |
Location & registration? |
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Jazz Days: Jazz Analysis as Practice |
Small Concert Hall, Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels. |
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10:00 - 11:30 |
Lecture: Analysis of Jazz: A Comprehensive Approach |
Laurent Cugny
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12:00 - |
Roundtable: Jazz Analysis as Practice |
Chaired by Matthias Heyman, Laurent Cugny, Kurt Budé, Michel Bisceglia and members of the audience | |
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The 19th Century Salon -
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| 9:30 - 12:00 | Workshops: Chamber Music Alternating |
Rooms 041, 040, 140, Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels. |
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| 09:30 - 17:00 | Acoustic Recording Studio | Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski |
Room A04, Regentschapsstraat 30, 1000 Brussels. |
| 13:30 - 16:00 | Lectures and Discussion Rounds | Visiting lecturers, KCB & HoGent KASK Conservatorium teachers |
Small Concert Hall, Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels. |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Lecture - Recital | Lecturers, teachers and students of KCB | Concert Hall, Regentschapsstraat 30, 1000 Brussels. No registration. |
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Friday 9 December |
Who? |
Location & registration? |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Lecture: Music as Hyperdimensional Technology | Jessie Cox |
Small Concert Hall, Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels. |
| 15:00 - 18:00 | Workshop: the Compositions of Jessie Cox | Jessie Cox |
Small Concert Hall, Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels. |
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The 19th Century Salon —
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Ghent, more information. |
Registration
Most activities are open to the public, free of charge and without registration.
Registration is only mandatory for active participation to workshops and masterclasses (limited to KCB-students) and for Zoom sessions (open to all). To register, see the e-mail address in the planning and the description of the workshop/masterclass or the link to the form for the Zoom sessions. Places for the workshops and masterclasses are limited, so “first come, first served”. For further questions, send an e-mail.
