Otherness and openness
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Équipe
Partenaires
Ulrich Mosch, Université de Genève,
Date de début: 2015
Présentation du projet
The GMTH, an academic society that brings together researchers, musicologists, composers and music theorists from German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), organised its 14th Congress at HEM-Geneva in October 2014, around the theme of Otherness and openness. Knowledge of the other poses numerous challenges: it involves projecting yourself across numerous distances, and beyond frontiers: whether cultural, historic, aesthetic, or indeed philosophical. Beyond this movement towards knowledge of the other, composers or theoreticians will compare their musical productions, use their paradigms or attempt to bring a synthesis to bear on them.
Traditionally, the publishing of the acts of the annual congress is something that is the task of the higher school that hosts it. Their release constitutes both an institutional opportunity and a scientific one for HEM-Genève. On the one hand, it makes it possible to permanently embed the knowledge shared at the congress in October 2014. On the other hand, it’s a chance to bring together in a single publication research that has traditionally not been well-known across the linguistic boundaries, and, in particular, between the French-speaking and German-speaking regions.
The collective work that is being prepared brings together the writings and research of composers such as Dominique Clément or Hubertus Dreyer, music theorists like Pascal Decroupet, Catherine Fourcassié and Kilian Sprau, professors of various instruments and of history, aesthetics, and analysis, and musicologists of every variety. The editorial and introductory work conducted by those in charge of the project is enabling us to contextualize and structure the individual contributions.
