Deadline Extended: Xenakis 22: Centenary International Symposium

Athens and Napfolio
Greece

Athens and Nafplio, Greece, 24-29 May 2022

In recent decades the study of Iannis Xenakis’s work has seen a continuous rise in performances and recordings by a new generation of musicians and multimedia artists, as well as by symposia and publications. Moreover, access to the Xenakis Archives has helped to advance new research even further. We can thus refer to a broad field of Xenakis Studies that is increasingly in dialogue with fields such as new media art, sound studies, performance studies, politics, ecology, parametric design in architecture, or sound art. This field has already been established in a series of dedicated symposia: Paris 1998, Nice (France) 2001, Athens 2005, Guelph (Canada) 2006, Cologne 2006, London 2011, Nicosia (Cyprus) 2011, Paris 2012 and 2015, and Leeds (UK) 2017.

The present symposium will accommodate this renewed interest by inviting musicologists, musicians, architects, specialists of
multimedia art, and artists to celebrate his legacy on the centenary of his birth and to share their recent or ongoing research on Xenakis. Please note that this call aims to attract original findings that have not been previously presented elsewhere.

Indicative Topics:

  • Aesthetics, Philosophy, Politics, Ecology
  • Instrumental music
  • Electroacoustic and Computer Music
  • Music theory, analysis
  • Computational music models
  • Architecture, Space, Parametric Design
  • Performance studies
  • Technology interaction, new media
  • Polytopes and multimedia
  • Theatrical Works and Performances
  • Archival research, genetic criticism
  • Historical contextualisation
  • Xenakis’ influence on present-day music and artistic practice
  • Proposal Submission

Proposals can be in the form of:
Academic Papers
Workshops (including or not public participation)
The symposium’s language is English.

All proposals to be submitted via EasyChair.

Academic Paper Proposals
Stage 1: Short abstract (ca. 500 words) & brief CV (100 words) of main
author(s) by 15th of October 2021
Stage 2: Full-length article (5000 words maximum) by 15th of January 2022
Stage 3: Camera-ready article by 15th of March 2022

Workshop Proposals
Short description (ca. 500 words) & brief CV (100 words) of main
author(s) by 15th of October 2021
All proposals will be judged and reviewed anonymously by the
Scientific and Reviewing Committee of the symposium.

More information can be found here.

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