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Chinese and East Asian Music: The Future of the Past
14th International CHIME Conference
Musical Instruments Museum (MIM), Brussels, Belgium
18-22 November, 2009
The 14th CHIME meeting, on 'Chinese and East Asian Music: The Future of the Past', will take place at the Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) in Brussels from 18 to 22 November 2009. It is held as part of the 2009-2010 edition of the Belgian Europalia festival (www.europalia.be), a festival devoted entirely to Chinese music and culture during a period of four months. For CHIME, we look forward to an impressive programme, with over 60 presentations, supplemented with numerous concert performances and workshops.
For the final programme, see further below.
You can read more about possibilities for hotel and youth hostel booking below. For further details and for a pre-registration form, you will need to go to the website of the Musical Instruments Museum in Brussels: www.mim.fgov.be.
Given the size and scope of the Europalia Festival and the numbers of visitors expected, we kindly urge you to book accommodation in Brussels as early as possible.
We look forward to welcoming everyone at the MIM in November. People interested in attending the conference programme and the concerts as listeners are most welcome to register, too. The conference is a scholarly meeting, but it is open to anyone interested in Chinese and East Asian music.
Conference participants who play traditional musical instruments may want to bring them to our informal musical 'corridor gatherings'.
See you in Brussels in November!
Contact
For practical questions concerning the conference, please contact the organizer, Mrs Claire Chantrenne at: meetingchime2009@mim.be
Or via postal mail:
Mme Claire Chantrenne
Musical Instruments Museum (MIM)
1 rue Villa Hermosa
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
For questions about the conference programme, the concerts and exhibitions, you can contact Frank Kouwenhoven at CHIME, European Foundation for Chinese Music Research, Postbox 11092, 2301 EB Leiden, The Netherlands, e-mail: chime@wxs.nl, telephone +31-71-5133.974.
Pre-registration
On the website of MIM www.mim.fgov.be you will find a registration form, to be filled in and sent to the MIM (electronically or in printed form) before 1 October 2009 together with the payment of your registration fee if you wish to profit from the reduced early registration fee.
The earkt registration fee is 100 EUR of Chime members or 125 Euros for non-members if you register before 1 October. After 1 October, the registration fee is EUR 125 for Chime members and 150 Euros for non-members. (By registring, you automatically become a Chime member.) The fee covers participation in the conference, including two evening concerts, an opening reception, three lunches, coffee and tea during breaks, and an improvised afternoon (closing) concert on Sunday 22 November. For further details consult the MIM website.
We have limited possibilities to reduce registration fees for student participants with very limited financial means and for participants from third world countries. Please contact the CHIME office (chime@wxs.nl) if you feel you are entitled to this. Note that we may not be able to honour everyone's requests!
Hotel Accommodation
Hotel prices tend to be stiff in Brussels, but we are ready to help you find a fellow conference participant in case you wish to share a hotel room with someone to reduce accommodation costs. (You can indicate this on your registration form). Hotels can be booked via the Resotel reservation service at www.resotel.be/chime
Resotel basically offer a choice of three hotels for the CHIME meeting. All of these hotels have single rooms, double rooms and twin rooms (with two separate beds), and the twin rooms come in the same price category as the double rooms. These hotels are within a reasonable travelling distance from the conference site:
Villa Royale is 15 minutes away from the MIM with tram 92 or 94.
Astrid Centre is 15 minutes away from the MIM with bus 71 or 38, or take the underground (Metro station de Brouckere).
Sainte Catherine is 20 minutes away from the MIM with the underground (Metro Sainte Catherine).
For people with a limited purse we have also listed (on the MIM website, www.mim.fgov.be) two youth hostels.
Main conference theme
What are the future prospects for numerous musical genres (and instruments and stylistacal traits) from China and East Asia's past? This theme will be explored from a wide range of angles, such as:
- Development, preservation and reconstructions of musical instruments
- Preservation and continuation of traditional and 'folk' music
- Reconstruction or re-emergence of historical genres
- Continuation of elements from the past in reinvented traditions and in new music
- Conservation and use of recordings, fieldwork materials and collected objects
Special guests, fringe programme, and Europalia Festival
Among the special guests in this meeting we welcome the local shadow puppeteers of Huanxian (East Gansu), the Beijing zheng trio San Chuan (who combine age-old Chinese string idioms with a jazzy groove) , well-known senior masters of Chinese string solo instruments such as Li Guangzu (pipa), Chen Qijun (Chaozhou style zheng), Ding Chengyun and Fu Lina (qin and reconstructed se), prominent contemporary composer Liu Xing (Shanghai), as well as the much talked about contemporary theatre director Li Liuyi (Beijing), plus numerous young Chinese scholars and artists.
You will have occasion to hear the guqin (the classical Chinese 7-stringed zither) played as you have never heard it played before, will be able to attend vocal workshops on folk song and on Chinese opera led by renowned specialists. All of this will take place in eminently fitting surroundings, with a lot more Chinese music and culture to enjoy, thanks to the impressive 2009-2010 edition of the Europalia festival of which the CHIME conference will be a part.
The 2009 edition of this festival, a biennial event, is devoted to China. The festival encompasses no less than eighty (!) concerts of Chinese music, with more than 1,000 artists, as well as some fifty exhibitions, and countless other activities, in a period spanning four months. Among the many highlights are performances by the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, the China National Traditional Orchestra (Beijing), but also numerous concerts by rural traditional ensembles and groups, of which several have not performed in the West before. From rowdy shawms and four-stringed fiddles played with bows as thick as broomsticks to the latest fashions in Chinese heavy metal, pop, jazz, and contemporary dance, the festival has something to offer for everyone's taste!
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Chinese and East Asian Music: The Future of the Past
14th CHIME Meeting, 18-22 November 2009
Musical Instruments Museum (MIM), Brussels
All events take place in the lecture- & concert-hall of the MIM, unless otherwise stated
WEDNESDAY, 18 NOVEMBER
13.30 Registration Desk open; Welcome drinks
15.00 Welcome speeches by:
Anne Cahen, Director Royal Museums of Art and History KMKG, Brussels
Frank Kouwenhoven, Director CHIME Foundation, The Netherlands
Claire Chantrenne, organizer, Musical Instruments Museum
15.15 Special Performance.
Huanxian Shadow Puppet Theatre, East Gansu.
16.00 Keynote lecture
Tan Hwee-San, SOAS, University of London, UK
'Intangible Cultural Heritage with Chinese characteristics': The Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China, an examination of Government Policies and Their Implications.
16.40 Excursion to the exhibition 'The Other World - Puppet Theatre in China'
Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR), rue Ravenstein 23
18.00 Dinner outdoors (at your own cost)
20.00 Concert: Guqin on different terms
Classical Chinese zither in a new light: new ways of exploring an ancient instrument, from trios to John Coltrane and beyond...
With Ding Chengyun and Fu Lina (Wuhan), Liu Xing (Shanghai); Luca Bonvini (Paris), Gong Linna, Lin Chen, Wang Hua (Beijing)
21.45 Evening reception at the MIM restaurant: please bring your instruments!
23.30 End of Reception
THURSDAY, 19 NOVEMBER
SESSION 1, Keynote, and workshop
9.30 Keynote lecture
Alan Thrasher, Music Dept, UBC Vancouver
Sizhu Music in Perspective: Rethinking the Ancient Origins Belief.
10.15 Workshop on Chinese Folk Song Singing
Gong Linna (Beijing)
11.00 Coffee & tea break
SESSION 2 - Tradition lost, tradition gained ?
11.30 Jan Chmelarcik, Sinology Dept, Charles University, Prague
Music of Development: Traditional Music, Folk Ritual and Land Policy in Southwest Shandong.
12.00 Helen Rees, Music Dept, UCLA
The Future of China's Musical Past: Snapshots from Yunnan.
12.30 Robert Zollitsch, Munich, Germany
Young Musicians Trained at Chinese Conservatories - Their Situation and Perspectives.
13.00 LUNCH
SESSION 2 - Tradition lost, tradition gained ? (continued)
14.00 Anne Laure Cromphout, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Cultural Transmission or Cultural Preservation: The Transformation of Amdo Tibetan Music.
SESSION 3 - Musical instruments in the making
14.30 Gisa Jähnichen, Music Dept, Universiti Putra Malaysia
Chinese versus Lao Temple Drums in Northern Laos.
15.00 Lancini Jen-Hao Cheng, University of Otago, New Zealand
The Development, Preservation, and Reconstruction of Formosan Aboriginal Musical Instruments.
15.30 Coffee & tea break
SESSION 3 - Musical instruments in the making (continued)
16.00 Lin Chen, Music Research Institute, Beijing
The Improvement of Instruments in the Early Period after the Establishment of the People's Republic of China.
16.30 Ding Chengyun & Fu Lina, Wuhan Conservatory of Music
Origins, Reconstruction and Development of the Ancient Se Zither and its Music.
17.00 Liu Xing, Bandu Café, Shanghai
Composing for Zhongruan (Chinese guitar).
17.30 End of session
18.00 Dinner outdoors (at your own cost)
20.00 Concert: China Blossoms
Traditional playing styles clashes with the new in a programme full of contrasts: Li Guangzu, senior pipa (lute) master is set off against the modern virtuoso-style pipa player Zhao Cong (Beijing), and Chen Qijun's traditional Chaozhou style zheng pieces are pitched against the modern swing of the Beijing zheng trio San Chuan. With film interviews.
22.00 End of concert
FRIDAY, 20 NOVEMBER
SESSION 4A - The classical zither guqin: paths of discovery
Lecture Room II [Please note: This session runs parallel with session 4B]
09.30 Stephen Dydo, New York Qin Society, NY, America
Tang Melodies in Contemporary Performance.
10.00 Jeffrey Roberts, Beijing Center for Chinese Studies
Li Xiangting and Guqin Improvisation: New Direction or Recreation of an Ancient Tradition?
10.30 Marion Mäder, University of Cologne, Germany
Giving in to Modernity, Past and Humor - Traditional Guqin Music Today.
11.00 Cofee & tea break
SESSION 5A - Musical instruments in the making (& more on qin)
Lecture Room II [Please note: This session runs parallel with session 5B]
11.30 Yang Yuanzheng, Department of Music, The University of Hong Kong
Demystifying the Golden Age Craftsmanship of Qin Making.
12.00 Zhou Ming, Music College, Shandong University of Arts, China
The Cuo Qin - a Chinese Folk Musical Instrument.
12.30 Luca Bonvini, Paris, France
Transcription of Western Modal Music for Guqin.
13.00 LUNCH [until 14.30]
09.30 SESSION 4B - Panel, chaired by Hermann Gottschewski
The Role of Music for the Japanese Cultural Policy in the Colonial Period (1895-1945)
Lecture Room I [Please note: this session runs parallel with session 4A]
The panel consists of:
09.30 Naka Mamiko, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto, Japan
How Japanese Residents in China studied Japanese Traditional Music in the Early 20th Century.
09.45 Choki Seiji, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Cultural Politics of the Japanese Government during the Great East Asia War.
10.00 Lee Kyungboon, Seoul University, Korea
Europeanized Tradition as Propaganda - Ahn Eaktai's Etenraku in Context of the Japanese Cultural Policy During the Second World War.
10.15 Hermann Gottschewski, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Gagaku and Pan-Asianism.
10.30 Panel discussion on the topics presented
11.00 Coffee & tea break
SESSION 5B - Innovation in Chinese musical narrative
Lecture Room I [Please note: this session runs parallel with session 5A]
11.30 Lam Ching-wah, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
Musical Innovations in Huangmei Opera Films in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
12.00 Law Ho Chak, The University of Hong Kong
Questioning how kunqu becomes 'a heritage to be modernized' - A concise study on the musical accompaniment of Bai Xian-yong's 'youth version' of the kunqu play Peony Pavilion.
12.30 Zhang Weigang, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China
A Preliminary Study of Mengxi and its Tune.
13.00 LUNCH [until 14.30]
14.30 SESSION 6 - Panel, chaired by Fanch Thoraval
Music, sound and gesture: change and continuity in ritual traditions
The panel consists of:
14.30 François Picard, Musicology Department, University of Sorbonne-Paris IV
Long-time Permanence of Musical Repertoires in Ritual Practice.
15.00 Catherine Capdeville-Zeng, Dept Chine, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), France
Organizational Changes in the Nuo Theatre of Shiyou Village, Jiangxi Province.
15.30 Fanch Thoraval, University of Paris Sorbonne, Paris IV
The Hidden and the Shown: Some Change in the Sound Dimension of the Daoist Liturgy.
16.00 Short Coffee & tea break
16.15 SESSION 7 - Poster presentations:
Miriam Brenner, MA Musicology, University of Amsterdam
From earth-zither to brass gongs: Sulawesi Tenggara's lost and found.
Arlene Caney, Music Dept, Community College of Philadelphia
Perception of the Uighurs in Chinese Performances.
Natasha Shuen-Git Chow, Nogent-sur-Marne, France
Digital Guqin Museum: Preservation, promotion and development of the guqin through an online immersive virtual world - Secondlife.
Fu Limin China Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China
Study Report on 'Hebei Shenfang Concert'.
Monia Grauso, University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Liu Sola and her New Chinese Jazz Music.
Sanat Kibirova, St Petersburg University of Culture and Arts
Revival & Reconstruction of Musical Instruments of Kazakhstan's Uyghurs.
Frank Kouwenhoven, CHIME Foundation, Leiden, Netherlands
Chinese Temple Festival Dynamics.
Liu Yong, Dept of Musicology, China Conservatory of Music
The Revival of 'Si Bin Fu Qing' (Chinese chime stones).
Marta Piras, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Mozart and Beethoven in Mandopop: the hit-single 'Don't wannna grow up' (Bu xiang zhangda) from S.H.E.
Wang Hua, Dept. Dean of Music School, Minzu University, China
Xianzi, a Tibetan plucked stringed musical instrument
17.30 End of poster session
Dinner outdoors (at your own cost)
Evening: FREE
Please note the possibility to go and see: The Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe in: Legend of the White Snake, one of their most succesful productions in recent years, in Antwerp, at the Bourla Theatre, Komedieplaats 18. (Both tonight and tomorrow at 20.00 h) Antwerp is half an hour by train from Brussels. This concert is not included in the registration fee. You can purchase tickets online via www.vlaamseopera.be
Another attractive option: Part 3 of composer Guo Wenjing's fine modern opera trilogy 'Chinese Heroïnes'. At the Theatre National in Brussels (E. Jacqmainlaan 111-115), at 20.15 h. This is a bold mixture of traditional opera and avant-garde. Part 3 is the most dynamic and most entertaining installment of the series. It includes various clowns. Highly recommended! You can purchase tickets via www.theatrenational.be
Also at Theatre National in Brussels, at 20:30: the Huanxian Shadow Puppet Theatre, East Gansu. For tickets, go to: www.theatrenational.be
SATURDAY, 21 NOVEMBER
09.30 SESSION 8A - Panel, chaired by David Hughes
Cultural Properties Protection Law: The Impact and Future of Japan's Cultural Policy
Lecture Room I [Please note: this session runs parallel with session 8B]
The panel consists of:
09.30 Shino Arisawa, SOAS, University of London
Living National Treasures: Innovation within tradition.
09.45 Jane Alaszewska, SOAS, University of London
Preservation as a Force for Innovation: A case study of the impact of Cultural Asset designation on Japan's Chichibu Night Festival.
10.00 David W. Hughes, SOAS, University of London
Safeguarding the heart's home town: Japanese folk song as Intangible Cultural Heritage.
10.15 Matthew Gillan, Dept Art & Music, Internat. Christian University, Tokyo
Regional and national support for Okinawan music.
10.30 Panel discussion on the topics presented
11.00 Cofee & tea break
SESSION 9A - Issues in Chinese musical history
Lecture Room I [Please note: this session runs parallel with session 9B]
11.30 Dallas McCurley, Dept of Theatre, Drama and Dance, Queens College, Cuny, USA
On the Role of Martiality in the History of Xi.
12.00 Marnix Wells, London UK
Recovery of Lost Musics: 'that strain again, it had a dying fall!'
12.30 LUNCH (until 14.00 h)
SESSION 8B - New music in East Asia
09.30 Renaat Beheydt, Royal University Leuven, Belgium
Traditional Roots in Contemporary 'Classical' Music. The Work of Zhang Haofu.
10.00 David Leung, Hong Kong University
Wenren Aesthetics and Hong Kong Contemporary Music.
10.30 Lien Hsien-Sheng, Humanities Res. Center, Nat. Science Council, Taiwan
Sound, Song and Cultural Memory - Examples from Contemporary Taiwanese Music.
11.00 Coffee & tea break
SESSION 9B - New music in East Asia
11.30 Ury Eppstein, East Asian Studies Dept, Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem, Israel
Elements from the past in new Japanese music.
12.00 Marie-Hélène Bernard, University Paris-IV La Sorbonne, France
New Music, Old Instruments.
12.30 LUNCH (until 14.00 h)
SESSION 10 - Panel, chaired by Tsao Pen-yeh
Ritual Soundscape in China's Belief System: Three Field Sketches
The panel consists of:
14.00 Liu Guiteng, Cultural Ministry, Dandong, China
Field sketch I: Drum in the Mongolian Shamanistic Hüderqolu Ritual of the Bargu District.
14.30 Xiao Mei, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China
Crowning of a Spirit Medium (Guangxi, China).
15.00 Liu Hong, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China
Daoist Ritual Music in Shanghai.
15.30 Coffee & tea break
SESSION 11 - Intangible Cultural Heritage in Vietnam
16.00 Barley Norton, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Revival of Ca Tru Music Culture in Vietnam.
SESSION 12 - Workshop Peking Opera
16.30 Worskhop with members of the National Peking Opera Company, Beijing.
17.30 End of workshop / Dinner outdoors (at your own cost)
Evening: FREE
Please note the possibility to go and see: The Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe in: Legend of the White Snake (in Antwerp), or the Shadow Puppet Theatre of Huanxian in Brussels (see yesterday evening for details)
SUNDAY, 22 NOVEMBER
SESSION 13 - Issues in Chinese music history
10.00 Ulrike Middendorf, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg
Lament and Praise Songs (yintan qu): Some Notes on an Early Chinese Song Genre.
10.30 Shuyun Crossland-Guo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
The Quanzhou Nanyin: Historical Connections and Present Manifestations in the Southern Folk Operas.
11.00 Tan Shzr Ee, Royal Holloway University, London, UK
The Rise and Fall of 'Red' Accordions and Harmonicas in Singapore.
11.30 Coffee & tea break
SESSION 14 - The Future
12.00 Interview with Li Liuyi, stage director of Guo Wenjing's contemporary
Chinese opera trilogy 'Chinese Heroines'
12.15 Closing panel: Cultural Intangible Heritage and the Future
Open discussion with a.o. Tan Hwee-San, Barley Norton and others
13.00 Lunch (at your own cost)
14.00 Open Stage (Concert Hall Musical Instruments Museum)
Bring your instruments and play Asian music!
This concert will be open to the public
16.00 End of programme
If you plan to stay on in Brussels, and would like to hear still more adventurous music: on Sunday evening, at Flagey, Place Sainte-Croix, 20.15 h, singer Liu Sola will perform with four Chinese drummers, plus Yang Jing and Cheng Yuyu (pipas) and Wu Na (guqin). You can purchase tickets via tel. (+32)-(0)2-641.1020.
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