 | Meta—Xenakis-1: Meta-Xenakis Transcontinental Marathon Symposium |
| Website | http://www.meta-xenakis.org |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metaxenakis1 |
| Submission deadline | May 2, 2022 |
| Results announced | June 6, 2022 |
META—XENAKIS: a Global Marathon Symposium: September 30, October 1, 2022
Musicians, experts, scholars, artists, architects, mathematicians, philosophers from all over the world are invited to participate in this international, up-to-date, transdisciplinary discussion about the ever-contemporary “Xenakis Universalis.”
This is an open call and submissions will be anonymously double peer-reviewed by a distinguished international Scientific and Artistic Committee (see below).
Submission Guidelines
All presentations must be original, in English, and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. General format is 20-minutes per presentation, with 5 to 10 minutes of Q & A.
All proposals must be accompanied by a Biography of the main presenter (250 words max).
Please add any Technical Requirements (Please also note we might provide alternative solutions to maximize the inclusion of your submission due to possible limitations of the hosts’ technology).
The following categories are welcome:
- Full papers: 250-word abstract
- Workshops: 250-word abstract + stage requirements
- Round-tables: 250-word abstract
- Lecture/recitals (may be organized/recorded locally and broadcast globally, depending on sanitary restrictions at the time): 250-word abstract + stage set-up/instrument requirements
Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2022
Results announced: June 6, 2022
Suggested Topics include but are not limited to:
- Xenakis’s biographical aspects: critique and research
- Xenakis in Greece: politics, acceptance, creativity, inspiration
- Xenakis and the multi- and transdisciplinary concept of creation (music, architecture, sciences, technology, social sciences)
- Xenakis’s early works
- Xenakis as a pupil
- Xenakis’s pupils
- Xenakis’s Research Centers
- Xenakis’s UPIC and its further developments
- Xenakis and today’s music technology
- Implementation of Xenakis’s educational innovations/approach
- Analysis and/or comparison of Xenakis’s works
- Xenakis’s compositional methods and tools
- Performing (and/or editing) Xenakis’s works today
- Xenakis’s discography
- Xenakis’s institutional archival sources: KSYME’s archives, CIX’s archives
- Musical gestures and notation before and after Xenakis
- Xenakis: a contemporary musician of the 21st century
- Xenakis and the concept of nationalism and internationalism
- Stochastics and other mathematical methods and models
- Theorizing Xenakis in the 21st century
Meta—Xenakis Committees
SCIENTIFIC AND ARTISTIC COMMITTEE (local coordinators in bold)
- Bourotte Rodolphe
- Cathariou Angelica
- Cueto Juan Ignacio del
- Delhaye Cyrille
- Economou Thanos
- Estrada Julio
- Frenk Teresa
- Furukawa Kiyoshi
- Harizanos Nicos
- Harley James
- Hasegawa Robert
- Ioakeim Nikos
- Kakinuma Toshie
- Kanach Sharon
- Kato Kuniko
- Lieberman David
- Loufopoulos Apostolos
- Mackenzie Barbara
- Merakos Stephanie
- Mizuno Mikako
- Novak Marcos
- Ramou Lorenda
- Roads Curtis
- Sammoutis Evis
- Shiina Ryosuke
- Shimazu Takehito
- Spanó Gabriella
- Teige Daniel
- Touloumi Olga
- Tsouchlos Nikos
- Vlagopoulos Panos
- Weid Jean-Noël von der
- Xanthoudakis Haris
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (local coordinators in bold)
- Amelunxen Hubertus von
- Anastasiou Marianna
- Castanet Pierre Albert
- Delfos Carla
- Descubes Laurence
- Itzíar Fadrique
- Fendrich Fabienne
- Harris Conrad
- Higashikawa Ai
- Katz Jonathan
- Kourmpana Stella
- Matsumiya Keita
- Mantzoros Costas
- Merakos Stephanie
- Mizuno Mikako
- Monel-Villa Vivane
- Mukaikuchi Takeshi
- Nonomura Yoshihiko
- Sluchin Benny
- Smith Michèle
- Solís Hugo
- Spanó Gabriella
- Suzuki Yoshihisa
- Tsioukra Katerina
- Vraka Valia
- Xanthoudakis Haris
Publications
Proceedings from the Meta—Xenakis Symposium will be published after the conference, thereby including relevant Q & A and Round-table transcriptions.
Venue
The Transcontinental Marathon Symposium will be hybrid, assuming sanitary measures will allow for some in-person presence, and will be live-streamed and recorded and archived for future consultation (details will be made available on a timely basis). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Rouen, France: 30 Sept. 2022, 8:00-16:00 (UTC 06:00- 14:00) - Université de Rouen Normandie, Maison de l'Université;
New York City, USA: 30 Sept. 2022, 10:00- 18:00 (UTC 14:00- 22:00) - Graduate Center CUNY;
1h intermission
Nagoya, Japan: 1 Oct. 2022, 08:00-16:00 (UTC 23:00- 07:00 next day) - Nagoya City University/School of Design and Architecture;
Athens, Greece: 1 Oct. 2022, 10:00-18:00 (UTC 07:00- 15:00) - Institut français de Grèce;
Mexico City, Mexico 1 Oct. 2022, 10:00-18:00 (UTC 15:00-23:00) - UNAM
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to: symposium@meta-xenakis.org
Partners
Centre Iannis Xenakis, Groupe de Recherche de l'Histoire, Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire Homme-Société, Université de Rouen Normandie, Ministère de la Culture - Direction régionale des affaires culturelles de Normandie; KSYME/Contemporary Music Research Centre, Athens Conservatoire, Institut français de Grèce, Music Library of Greece; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Facultad de Música, Seminario Universitario de Investigación en Creación Artística, Laboratorio de Creación Musical, Facultad de Arquitectura y Diseño; Nagoya City University/School of Design and Architecture, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japanese Society for Electronic Music, Japanese Society for Sonic Arts; Xenakis Project of the Americas, The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation, The Graduate Center - City University of New York.