tzlil meudcan
International Festival for Contemporary Chamber Music since 2007

R e s e a r c h

STRIVING FOR THE UNDERNEATH: BODY AND PATHOS IN CHAYA CZERNOWIN’S COMPOSITION FOR VOICE IN INFINITE NOW AND HEART CHAMBER

Sarit Shley-Zondiner Abstract In her two recent operas, Heart Chamber (2017–19) and Infinite Now (2015–16), Chaya Czernowin uses vocal ensembles to embody a single character. In a 2016 article, she explained that she wanted to liberate the individual voice from its fixed emotional, social and individual conventions (especially its ingrained pathos), and...

Research Platform 2023

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 2023...

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...

2021 Tzlil Meudcan Musicology Group

2021 Tzlil Meudcan Musicology Group Uri Jacob is a musicologist and music performer. He has recently completed his dissertation on the musical responses to the crusades in France and Occitania at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His current projects focus on musical literacy in the crusader states during the 12th–13th centuries and on...

Welcome to our research platform

For three years Tzlil Meudcan has been cultivating a research branch—a group of graduate and postgraduate musicologists interested in the history and cultural history of contemporary art music. Emerging from the Department of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and joined by young musicologists from Europe, this branch is...