Symposium: Discursive and Empirical Approaches to the Aesthetics of Improvised Music

In recent years, improvisation has increasingly become an object of research in musicology. In view of the large number of research projects and publications, it is noticeable that aesthetic questions play a rather subordinate role or are not considered at all. Against this background, how can approaches to the aesthetics of improvised music in its diversity be shaped? In four impulse lectures, the Jour fixe presents two discursive-theoretical and two empirical approaches that deal with this question.

Lectures and discussion hosted by Matthias Haenisch & Mathias Maschat:

Prof. Dr. Alessandro Bertinetto (Universität Udine): Drei Schlüsselbegriffe einer Improvisationsästhetik / Three Key Concepts of Improvisational Aesthetics

Matthias Haenisch (Universität Potsdam): Metaphern ästhetischer Praxis – Zur Rekonstruktion impliziten Wissens in zeitgenössischer Improvisation / Metaphors of Aesthetic Practice – On the Reconstruction of Implicit Knowledge in Contemporary Improvisation 

Prof. Dr. Jin Hyun Kim (Humboldt-Universität Berlin): Real-World Untersuchungen zur musikalischen Improvisation / Real-World Research into Musical Improvisation

Mathias Maschat (Universität Osnabrück): Fundamente der Improvisationsästhetik: Musikästhetik als Kontext des Performativitätsdiskurses improvisierter Musik / Foundations of the Aesthetics of Improvisation: Music Aesthetics as Context of the Performativity Discourse of Improvised Music

Fr 14. Juli 2017 | 18:00 Uhr – 20:00 Uhr
Universität Potsdam
Campus Griebnitzsee