Description
This session will focus on the last four years of research within MCICM and the plans for the future.Denise Petzold will talk about her research 'Resisting Closure: A Museum Studies Approach to Performing the Canonic Heritage of Symphonic Music.'
Neil Smith will talk about his research 'Locating the Orchestra: Widening Participation through Spatial Innovation.'
Denise Petzold is an interdisciplinary researcher and PhD candidate within the MCICM. In the past, she has worked as an assistant curator at the contemporary art museum Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen, Germany, where she co-organised two large-scale exhibitions and assisted with editing the accompanying publications.
In her PhD project at the MCICM, Denise aims to bring together her background in the arts with classical music. In her research, she critically examines what is considered the cultural heritage of classical music today, how this heritage is maintained through the canon and thus also through actual musical practices, and, ultimately, how innovation of this heritage can be initiated from ‘within’ the community of classical music itself by considering novel contexts and strategies inspired by contemporary and/or performing arts as well as museum studies.
Neil Thomas Smith trained as a musicologist and a composer. His research focuses on contemporary musical culture with specialisms in new German music, composition, and intersections between music, urbanism and architecture. His articles have appeared in Music&Letters, TEMPO, Contemporary Music Review, Cultural Sociology, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and the British Journal of Sociology. His monograph on composer Mathias Spahlinger was published in 2021 by Intellect.
At the MCICM, Neil has been researching performance spaces and concert halls in particular. He recently undertook a study with IMPACT Scotland, who are attempting to build a new concert hall in Edinburgh. Forthcoming publications from this research highlight the planning hearing as an arena in which debate over culture takes place, and the role of materials within cultural controversy.
| Period | 22 Apr 2022 |
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| Event title | MCICM Symposium Borderlands: Classical Music and Society |
| Event type | Symposium |