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Curating Contemporary Music Festivals A New Perspective on Music's Mediation Brandon Farnsworth
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Farnsworth, Brandon <p>Brandon Farnsworth, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Schweiz</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Musik und Klangkultur ; 47.
- Musik und Klangkultur
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Contemporary Classical Music.
- New Music.
- Neue Musik.
- Berliner Festspiele.
- Münchner Biennale Für Neues Musiktheater.
- Munich Biennale For New Music Theatre.
- Cultural Management.
- Music.
- Music Management.
- Musicology.
- Local Subjects:
- Contemporary Classical Music.
- New Music.
- Neue Musik.
- Berliner Festspiele.
- Münchner Biennale Für Neues Musiktheater.
- Munich Biennale For New Music Theatre.
- Cultural Management.
- Music.
- Music Management.
- Musicology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Farnsworth, Curating Contemporary Music Festivals A New Perspective on Music's Mediation
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Brandon Farnsworth, born in 1991, works as an independent music curator, and as a research associate at the Zurich University of the Arts, where he also studied classical music performance and transdisciplinary studies. He pursued his doctoral degree in historical musicology at the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, and was an affiliated researcher with the joint »Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practice« doctoral program at the Collegium Helveticum. His research focuses on the intersection of performance and curatorial studies, and strives for a global perspective.
- Summary:
- Contemporary music, like other arts, is dealing with the rise of »curators« laying claim to everything from festivals to playlists – but what are they and what do they do anyway? Drawing from backgrounds ranging from curatorial studies to festival studies and musicology, Brandon Farnsworth lays out a theory for understanding curatorial practices in contemporary music, and how they could be a solution to the field's diminishing social relevance. The volume focuses on two case studies, the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre, and the Maerzmusik Festival at the Berliner Festspiele, putting them in a transdisciplinary history of curatorial practice, and showing what music curatorial practice can be.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Image and Figure Rights 9 1.1 Establishing the Field 11 1.2 The State of the Art 15 1.3 Scope and Overview 23 2.1 Introduction 29 2.2 The Anatomy of Festivals and Biennales 40 2.3 Curating Biennales 61 2.4 Curatorial Discourse 80 2.5 Conclusion 94 3.1 Introduction 97 3.2 Reading Shannon Jackson 98 3.3 Curating Dance / Dance Curating 111 3.4 Curating Theatre / Theatre Curating 124 3.5 Conclusion 136 4.1 Introduction 139 4.2 Hans Werner Henze 141 4.3 Music Theatre? 145 4.4 Peter Ruzicka 148 4.5 Daniel Ott and Manos Tsangaris (DOMTS) 162 4.6 The 2016 and 2018 Biennale Editions 169 4.7 Compositional and Curatorial Practices 180 4.8 The Munich Biennale in Numbers. 203 4.9 Conclusion 216 5.1 Introduction 219 5.2 A Brief Prehistory to the Maerzmusik Festival 222 5.3 Maerzmusik 2002-2014 228 5.4 Berno Odo Polzer 230 5.5 2017 Opening Concert: Julius Eastman 247 5.6 Storytelling for Earthly Survival 258 5.7 Curating and the Maerzmusik Festival 268 5.8 Decolonizing Time 273 5.9 Conclusion/Coda/Konzertemacher 277 6. Conclusion/Curating Music 281 Bibliography 289 Appendix: List of Productions at the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre from 1988-2018 311
- Notes:
- Doctoral Thesis Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden 2020
- Includes bibliographical references.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/open-access-bei-transcript
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9783839452431
- 3839452430
- OCLC:
- 1198930963
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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