Department of Contemporary Music
Research and Creative Centre for Contemporary Music
The Department of Contemporary Music and the Research and Creative Centre for Contemporary Music of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory are organising the international academic conference “New Music in the Space of Culture” marking the 75th birthday of Professor Alexander Sokolov. The conference will take place in the Conference Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (13/6 Bolshaya Nikitskaya St., Moscow) on 9–10 October 2024.
The conference theme covers the following topics:
● New music of the 20th–21st centuries: aesthetics, artistic trends, styles
● New music and related fields of contemporary culture: dialogues and intersections
● Musical composition and new methods of research in the humanities
● New music in the research of the Moscow Conservatory academic school
● Methodological approaches to the interpretation of contemporary music phenomena
● Topoi of New Music
● “Scientistic” tendencies in the work of 20th–21st-century composers;
● New music and the problem of analysing musical form
● Contemporary theory and practice of musical art
● Terminology in the academic discourse on New Music
● Sociology of music after Adorno
● Multimedia as a sociocultural phenomenon
Procedure
The expected length of papers: 30 minutes at the plenary session, 20 minutes at section sessions, with 10 minutes for discussion of each paper.
The working languages of the conference are Russian and English.
Participation in the conference is free of charge; no registration fee is charged.
Travel and accommodation expenses are not covered. A personal invitation to the conference is sent on request.
Hotel reservation is possible (this must be indicated in the application form).
Hotel accommodation is decided by the organising committee (owing to the limited number of rooms).
Applications to take part in the conference must be sent by 5 September 2024 to:
info@ccmm.ru.
Application form (DOCX)
The organising committee reserves the right to select papers on a competitive basis.
Speakers will have the opportunity to publish their papers in one of the academic journals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission (VAK):
● “Nauchny Vestnik Moskovskoy Konservatorii” (Academic Bulletin of the Moscow Conservatory)
● “Zhurnal Obshchestva Teorii Muzyki” (Journal of the Society for Music Theory)
● “Muzykalnoe Iskusstvo Evrazii. Traditsii i Sovremennost” (Musical Art of Eurasia. Tradition and Modernity)
