Research Platform 2022
The research platform of Tzlil Meudcan aims at promoting research on contemporary music and contemporaneity, while studying at the wider cultural, aesthetic, and fiscal networks that constitute it. The musicological roundtables will be directed by Assaf Shelleg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Christopher Fox (Akademie der Künste, Berlin).
The 2022 Tzlil Meudcan research group includes young scholars in historical musicology, composition, and music theory from Israel, U.S., England, Germany, and Spain. All roundtables will be held at the Goethe Institute in Tel Aviv in two 90-minute sessions: 12:30-14:00 and 14:30-16:00. Each session opens with a discussion on yesterday’s repertoire and performances, after which the following topics will be brought to the table:
Jul 5 | Solo / Soliloquy
The first day will focus exclusively on works for solo instruments, following Irvine Arditti’s recital for solo violin, and Sven-Ingo Koch’s FünfStücke für violin (2022), which will be premiered there. Koch will be joining us to present his work(s), and we will expand the discussion with the multiplicities that emerge from compositions penned during the last 30 years (or so) for monophonic instruments.
Jul 6 | Adamot / Lands
The second day will deal with the meanings of adamot (Hebrew for territories), namely the validity — or its lack thereof — of territorial nationalism in contemporary music, the territories contemporary music gives voice to, the territories it still renders mute, and the dissolution of (and disbelief in) musical signifiers. Our second session will take place at the nearby Tel Aviv Museum of Arts, where we have been promised a guided tour (at 14:30) of the exhibition Dissensus: Legislation, Planning, Architecture.
Jul 7 | Round Tables
The first roundtable of the third day will be organized by the Tzlil Meudcan musicology fellows (TBA), and the second will feature a roundtable for composers and musicologist on the patrimonies of the past in today’s compositional praxis. The Israeli composers whose works will be performed in the festival will join us as well as Sven-Ingo Koch.
*All roundtables will be held in English
Tzlil Meudcan 2022 Musicology Fellows
Alberto Arroyo, Hochschule für Musik, Dresden
Ed Cooper, University of Leeds
Hila Dominstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Orit Hilewicz,Indiana University
Amir Lekach Avivi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sarit Shley-Zondiner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
Amir Shohat, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
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