Wednesday 26/11, 20:30

Workshop “Letting go”:

Control and its loss in the context of musical actions

Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, musician, associate professor, Department of Pre-School Education, University of Thessaly.

The workshop is part of the course “Audiovisual Representations and Image Processing Techniques”, Tuesday 25/11/14, 17:30 -20:30 pm, DeptArch Amphitheatre

How is music written down? Is the score an accurate representation of the music? Which are the logics that underpin different ways of written representation of musical events? What is being gained and what is being lost when a piece of music is notated? Which are the aspects that different forms of notation seek to control and why? Who controls what escapes control of the 'composer'? Which are the aspects that different forms of written musical representation 'let go'? And why? Looking at different ways of notating music (from Bach to Cardew) we aim at discussing the issue of controlling (or refusing to control) different aspects of the musical material; this discussion is going to lead us to a practical experimentation with ways of controlling noise so as to render it 'musical'. We end by creating a little piece that addresses the issue of the relationships between music, noise and multitude.

See the workshop’s poster.

Panagiotis A. Kanellopoulos is Associate Professor of Music Education at the Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece. He received his MA and Ph.D in Music Education from Reading University (UK). He has taught music education courses at the University of the Aegean, and was previously Lecturer of Music Education at the Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Research interests include: socio-cultural perspectives on musical creativity, ethnographic approaches to musical improvisation, as well as possible conjunctures between philosophy of music education and political theory. He has co-edited the volume Arts in Education-Education in the Arts (Athens, Nissos, 2010). His work has been published in international edited volumes and major research journals (Resonance, Psychology of Music, Philosophy of Music Education Review, Action Criticism and Theory for Music Education, British Journal of Music Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory). He studied the mandolin with Alison Stephens and Manos Hadjidakis' collaborator Vivi Gheka and has for many years been a frequent and dedicated performer of Hadjidakis' music, working in small ensembles, with the Orchestra of Colors (founded by Hadjidakis), the ERT Choir and the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra. 

1-15/11/2014 

Andalusia - Morocco through Gibraltar

December 28, 2014 - January 11, 2015

We are travelling in Andalusia and Morocco via Gibraltar.

We are visiting small and large structures, urban and cultural palimpsests, we will get familiar with the Moorish architecture, as implemented from the 8th to the 15th century in the Iberian peninsula, and with the Arab and Berber culture of North Africa.

We will visit castles, temples, houses and mosques, gardens, towns, mud villages, springs, terraces and courtyards, medinas, markets, kaspmes, ancient dyer's shops in Fez and abandoned Jewish neighborhoods. We will see the Atlantic Ocean through the Pillars of Hercules in Gibraltar.

Malaga, Alcazaba, Granada, Alhambra, Santa Maria de la Granada, Cordova, Great Mosque, Jewish quarters, Medina Al Zahra, Seville, Alcazar, Niebla, Arcos de lafrontiera.
Cadiz, Almonaster la Real, Moorish castle, Ronda, Jerez de la frontier, Alcazar, Givraltar.
Tangier, Tetouan, Chefchaouen, Fez, Meknes, Volubilis, Rabat.

Responsible for the educational journey is Professor Theoklis Kanarelis

For information and expressions of interest for the field trip please contact the theoklis@uth.gr and see the poster.

Tuesday, October 14th, 2014, 15:00-18:00, Amphitheatre Dept. Arch, Volos, conference of Daphne Tragaki, in the framework of the course Audiovisual Representation and Image Processing Technologies

This presentation is an introduction to the study of Acoustic Ecology of the urban space and the main theoretical problematic and methodological orientations concerning the ethnography of sound.

Daphne Tragaki studied Ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths College (University of London) under the supervision of professor John Baily. Her Phd thesis on Rebetiko Worlds. Ethnomusicology and Ethnography in the City has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006.

Research interests: ethnographic representation of music, in the music culture politics, in the ethnographic study of music and the music culture in the urban space. Since 2004, she teaches at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology (IAKA) of the University of Thessaly. She has edited the collective volume Empire of Song. Europe and Nation in the Eurovision Song Contest (Scarecrow Press, 2013) and has the responsibility of editing Made in Greece. Studies in Greek Popular Music, to be published by Routledge.

Monday 13 October 2014, 15:00-18:00, Amphitheatre Dept. Arch, Volos

Digital cities for the contemporary, interactive screen can function as vehicles for the study and the illustration of current aspects of urban development. Cinematic urban landscapes, ephemeral constructions with moving image and sound onto the two-dimensional plane of the celluloid, offer their methodological toolset to the study of the multi-dimensional digital screen. This presentation demonstrates, with the use of specific research examples, the potential for carrying out in-depth analyses of urban phenomena with the aid of descriptive metadata about filmed spaces, their statistical processing and the spatial visualisation of the information. Finally, this presentation explores the way new, digital spaces may materialise via the creative reuse of archival, audiovisual database assets on architecture and the city. 

2-4/9/2014