Program Conferință 2023

Ligeti, Escher, Brâncuși. From Muse to Music
Ligeti, Escher, Brâncuși. De la muză la muzică


The present edition of the Festival reflects Ligeti´s aesthetic passions beyond the confines of music. The composer was always susceptible to all things visual, so much so that his first sketches often took a graphic form. As he put it, 'I always imagine music visually, in many different colours'.

Ligeti spoke on numerous occasions about the influence Bosch, Brueghel, Cézanne, Dalí, Escher, Brâncuși, or fractal geometry had on his music. His oeuvre is deeply anchored in the realm of the visual and his musical vocabulary draws time and again from that of painting technique, even, in some cases, overtly referencing various visual works in the titles of pieces.

The conference organised in Cluj-Napoca (the city where the composer started to study music),  brings together contributors from leading European and American universities, - welcoming Heinz-Otto Peitgen as keynote speaker - who seek to „draw” in concert the portrait of Ligeti as a passionate and avid lover of all the arts.

Thursday / Joi, 25 mai

Univers T, Amfiteatrul ”Terra”, Cluj-Napoca

SESSION 1:

”Do you dream in fractals?”

Chair: Steven Rings

9.00
Pavel Pușcaș
(”Gh. Dima” National Music Academy Cluj-Napoca)
Amalia Szűcs-Blănaru
(Şcoala Gimnazială „Vaskertes” Gheorgheni, Harghita);
Ligeti - Escher. A paradox of transformation: discrete to continuum
Ligeti - Escher. Paradoxul transformării discretului în continuum

9:30
Wolfgang Marx
(University College Dublin)
Ligeti and Synaesthesia
Ligeti și sinestezia

10.00
Keynote lecture:
Heinz-Otto Peitgen
(University of Bremen)
György Ligeti or how the mathematics of chaos and fractals impacted his compositions
György Ligeti sau impactul matematicii haosului și al fractalilor asupra compozițiilor sale

11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break

Thursday / Joi, 25 mai

Univers T, Amfiteatrul ”Terra”, Cluj-Napoca

SESSION 2:

Eastern Landscape with Ligeti in the foreground

Chair: Amy Bauer

11.30
Ewa Schreiber
(”Adam Mickiewicz” University, Poznań)
Overcoloured dreams. Ligeti’s visual metaphors and the power of argument
Vise supracolorate. Metaforele vizuale ale lui Ligeti și puterea raționamentului

12.00
Sanja Kiš Žuvela
(University of Zagreb Academy of Music)
Ligeti in Croatia: Times, Spaces, Words
Ligeti în Croația: timpuri, spații, cuvinte

12.30
Valentina Sandu Dediu
(National University of Music Bucharest; New Europe College Bucharest)
Polyphonies and affinities: Ștefan Niculescu and György Ligeti
Polifonii și afinități: Ștefan Niculescu și György Ligeti

13.00
Bianca Țiplea Temeș 
(”Gh. Dima” National Music Academy Cluj-Napoca)
Echoes of Brâncuși. The Endless Column in the music of Olah, Georgescu, and Ligeti
Ecouri brâncușiene: Coloana infinită în muzica lui Olah, Georgescu și Ligeti

13.30
Christoph Flamm
(University of Heidelberg)
Acoustic masses and spaces – Ligeti’s works as sonic sculptures?
Mase și spații acustice. Lucrările lui Ligeti ca sculpturi sonore?

Friday – Vineri, 26 mai

Univers T, Amfiteatrul ”Terra”, Cluj-Napoca

SESSION 3:

”Of foreign lands and familiar sounds”

Chair: Jennifer Iverson

9.00
Stanislav Tuksar
(University of Zagreb)
“Education and Entertainment” in a Growing Bourgeois Society via Portraits of Musicians. Case Study: Croatian Magazine Vienac (1869-1903)
„Educație și divertisment” într-o societate tot mai burgheză prin portrete ale muzicienilor. Studiu de caz: revista croată Vienac (1869-1903)

9.30
Vjera Katalinić
(Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb)
Local and International Musicians in Portraits by the Croatian Composer Bruno Bjelinski (1909-1992)
Muzicieni locali și internaționali în portrete create de compozitorul croat Bruno Bjelinski (1909-1992)
10.00
Oleg Garaz
(”Gh. Dima” National Music Academy Cluj-Napoca)
Synesthetic syncretism in Mikalojus Čiurlionis’s oeuvre
Sincretismul sinestezic în creația lui Mikalojus Čiurlionis

10.30
Anna Dalos
(Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest)  
”Todesfuge”. Literature, Holocaust and Music in Hungary in 1970s
”Todesfuge”. Literatură, holocaust și muzică în Ungaria anilor ´70

11.00
László Vikárius
(Budapest Bartók Archives; ”Fr. Liszt” Music Academy Budapest)
Béla Bartók and "plein-air" in Musical Composition
Béla Bartók și ”plein-air” în compoziția muzicală
11.30 – 12.00
Coffee break

Friday / Vineri, 26 mai

Univers T, Amfiteatrul ”Terra”, Cluj-Napoca

SESSION 4:

”I belong everywhere”: Ligeti in soundtrack and beyond

Chair: Wolfgang Marx
                        
12.00
Dorothea Redepenning
(University of Heidelberg, Centre for European Historical and Cultural Studies / ZEGK Musicology)   
Ligeti's music as film music (Stanley Kubrick)
Muzica lui Ligeti ca muzică de film (Stanley Kubrick)

12.30
Julia Heimerdinger 
(University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Department of Musicology and Performance Studies)   
György Ligeti's Film Music beyond Stanley Kubrick
Muzica de film a lui György Ligeti dincolo de Stanley Kubrick

13.00
Jennifer Iverson; Steven Rings
(University of Chicago)
Ligeti and the Counterculture
Ligeti și contracultura

13.30
Federico Favali
(University of Hamburg; Conservatory of Alessandria)  
The Archetypes of Labyrinth in the Music of Ligeti between 1967-1969
Arhetipurile labirintului în muzica lui Ligeti din anii 1967-1969

14.00
Amy Bauer
(University of California, Irvine)
Theatricality, temporality and the listener in late Ligeti
Teatralitate, temporalitate și ascultătorul perioadei târzii a lui Ligeti

 

Scientific
Committee

Kofi Agawu (The City University of New York)
Amy Bauer (University of California, Irvine)
Nicholas Cook (University of Cambridge)
Hermann Danuser (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Wolfgang Marx (University College Dublin)
Adrian Pop („Gh. Dima” National Music Academy Cluj-Napoca)
Bianca Ţiplea Temeş („Gh. Dima” National Music Academy Cluj-Napoca)

 
 

 

 


 

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