PROGRAMME

25 October 2023 – 28 October 2023

All-day Event, Seminar Room 3
Damien Ricketson and Diana Chester: Listening to Earth Installation

All-day Event, Seminar Room 4
Composition Department: A Creation Installation

25 October 2023, 1pm-10.30pm

1pm-2pm, Box Office
Registration

2pm-2.45pm, Orchestra Hall
Opening Address

3pm-4.30pm, Various Locations

Paper Presentation Session 1 — Resonances and Traditions (Location: Ensemble Room 1)

• Grace Chan: The impact of post-COVID digital transformation on global bell and carillon culture
• Ning Hui See: Performer’s Process — Concert Programming for Women Composers
• Miao Kai Wen, Benedict Ng and Frances Lee: (Re)Sounding Stories — An Intermodal Approach to Robert Schumann’s Märchenerzählungen

Paper Presentation Session 1 — Performances and Practices: Time and Tides (Location: Recital Studio)

• Bernard Lanskey: Tides of Change — Currents through Time uncovered in returning to a personally significant work 30 years after presenting its first performance
• Olga Stezhko: ‘Blooming’ — nurturing the power of international solidarity in supporting post-colonial countries through collaborative artistic projects

 4.30pm-5pm, Orchestra Hall Foyer
Flowing Coffee and Student Performance

5pm-6pm, Orchestra Hall
Performance: Morse – YSTeve Reich

6pm-7pm, Foreword Cafe
Dinner Reception

7pm-7.30pm, Foyer
Flowing Processional: The Seventh Angel & Project Re-Sonating

7.30pm-8.30pm, Concert Hall
Performance: The Art of War — Final Chapter

8.30-9.15pm, Orchestra Hall Foyer
Flowing Drinks

9.15pm-10.30pm, Orchestra Hall
Performance: The Circle of Life

26 October 2023, 8.30am-10.30pm

8.30am-9am, Orchestra Hall Foyer
Flowing Coffee

9am-10am, Orchestra Hall
Keynote Address

• Darla Crispin: Poetry in Motion? – interrogating the respective merits of flow, stasis and resonance as states conducive to artistic research

10am-11.30am, Various Locations
Paper Presentation Session 2 — Currents in Higher Education: Unfolding Resonances (Location: Ensemble Room 1)

• Jeremy Cox: The Resonant Mirror and the Flowing Journey — Currents and Concentricities in the Structural and Affective Organisation of Calligrammes by Francis Poulenc
• Orchestra Institute: The Rep Dilemma & Futures Flowing (OI at Year 5)

Paper Presentation Session 2 — Performances and Practices: Constructing Identities (Location: Ensemble Room 2)

• Niranjan Pandian: Pravah — Melodic Resonances
• Koay Loong Chuen (Jellal) and Joan Tan Jing Wen: Negotiating Artistic Identities as a Young Artist in a Cosmopolitan Society

11.30am-12.30pm, Foyer
Lunch and Student Performance

12.30pm-1.30pm, Recital Studio
Plenary Performance: Schwanengesang

1.30pm-3pm, Various Locations

Paper Presentation Session 3 — Music and Health in the Community (Location: Ensemble Room 1)

• Kathleen Agres: Introducing YST’s Centre for Music and Health: Recent Findings and Personal Reflections
• Khoo Hui Ling and Kathleen Agres: Resonating in Society — Musical Storytelling in Community Outreach
• Elicia Neo: Pain/Relief — Linking Generative Technology with Accessibility Design

Paper Presentation Session 3 — Performances and Practices: Strings in Resonance (Location: Ensemble Room 2)

• Yung-Yu Lin: Ars Combinatoria in George Rochberg’s 50 Caprice Variations for Solo Violin (1970)
• Su Zar Zar and Gabriel Lee: Resonating Strings — A Performance Featuring the Myanmar Harp and Violin

3pm-3.30pm, Front Foyer (near Music Library)
Flowing Coffee

3.30pm-4.15pm, Concert Hall
Of Rivers and Gongs: A Southeast Asia Symphony Sharing Session

4.30pm-5.30pm, Concert Hall
Open Rehearsal: Southeast Asian Golden Age Symphony

5.30pm-6.30pm, Recital Studio
Plenary Presentation: Resonance through Time

7.30pm-8.30pm, Orchestra Hall
Performance: Homages

8.30pm-9.15pm, Orchestra Hall Foyer
Flowing Drinks

9.15pm-10.15pm, Orchestra Hall
Plenary Performance: Flow States

27 October 2023, 9am-10pm

Schedule

9am-10am, Orchestra Hall Foyer
Flowing Coffee

10am-11am, Orchestra Hall
Keynote Address

• Robert Cutietta: The View from the Top – Leaders of the World’s Music Conservatories Perspective on the Pandemic and what it means for the Future of Music Teaching

11am-12.30pm, Various Locations
Paper Presentation Session 4 — Local Reverberations (Location: Ensemble Room 1)

• Patcharee Suwantada & Joseph Bowman: Expanding 21^st Performer Genre Boundaries — A Case Study on Introducing Thai Luk Thung Elements to Thailand Trumpet Performers
• Mei Artanto: Recombination of Music Traditions in Yogyakarta Royal Orchestra Performance
• Benjamin Harris: Phenomenologies of Transient Migrant Music-Making in Singapore

Paper Presentation Session 4 — Performances and Practices: Cross Currents (Location: Ensemble Room 2/Audio Arts Lab)

• Clara Wigger, Richard Winkler and Soniya Rakhmatullina: Crossing Musical Boundaries (Ensemble Room 2)
• Ho Chee Kong and Lin Xiangning: Narrating a Re-imagination of Works (Audio Arts Lab)

Paper Presentation Session 4 — New Media: Flowing Gestures (Location: Recital Studio)

• Philippe Spiesser: GeKiPe (a Gesture-based Interface for Audiovisual Performance)
• Thomas Green and Nozomi Omote: The Sounds of Chow Gar

12.30pm-1.30pm, Concert Hall
Plenary Presentation: Putting One’s Heart into Music – The Musical Journey by Elaine Chew

1.30pm-2.30pm, Foyer
Lunch and Student Performance

2.30pm-4pm, Various Locations

Paper Presentation Session 5 — Local Reverberations (Location: Ensemble Room 1)

• David Chin: Bach in the Far East
• Chen Zhangyi: A ‘New Nanyang Style’? From Bunga Mawar to Kampung Spirit

 Paper Presentation Session 5 — Local Reverberations (Location: Ensemble Room 2)

• YST Composition Department: On “A Creation”
• Damien Ricketson and Diana Chester: Listening to Earth
• SEADOM 30 under 30: Sight-seeing — A River-inspired Project

Paper Presentation Session 5 — Currents in Higher Education: Embodying Resonances (Location: Recital Studio)

• László Stachó: Mastering the future, the present, and the past — A novel musical attention training for performers
• Manus Carey: RNCM Innovate — Defining the Future of Music
• Tomomi Ohrui: A continuous professional development as an artistic citizen — An example of socially engaged practice using idiomatic improvisation as a tool to reworking and reusing

4pm-4.30pm, Orchestra Hall Foyer
Flowing Coffee and Student Performance

4.30pm-5.30pm, Orchestra Hall
From Naples to Nanyang: Flowing Futures in Music Higher Education

5.30pm-7pm, Orchestra Hall Foyer
PhD Launch, Cocktail Celebration and Canape Buffet

7pm-8.15pm, Concert Hall
Plenary Performance: Dances and Dreams — From Paris to Singapore

8.15-9pm, Orchestra Hall Foyer
Flowing Drinks

9pm-10pm, Orchestra Hall
Performance: Late Night

28 October 2023, 9am-10.30pm

9am-10am, Orchestra Hall
Keynote Address

• Anothai Nitibhon: ‘Being’ in the Flow: Performing in Ever-evolving Musicscapes.

10am-10.30am, Orchestra Hall Foyer
Flowing Coffee

10.30am-12pm, Various Locations
Paper Presentation Session 6 — New Media: Sonic Explorations (Location: Ensemble Room 2)

• Juan Parra Cancino: An Experimental Performance of Eliane Radigue’s Early Feedback Works
• Alfonso Benetti and Ana Norogrando: Artistic Research and Activitism — beyond music, multimedia and visual art

 Paper Presentation Session 6 — New Media: Tradition and Innovation (Location: Recital Studio)

• Andrew Filmer and Sulwyn Lok: Breaking Free — Transcontinental Collaboration in the New Digital Landscape
• Ainolnaim Azizol: Malay Sound Arts — Reimagining Biophony and Geophony Materials for Seed of Life

12pm-1pm, Foyer
Lunch

1pm-2pm, Orchestra Hall
Discussion Performance: Melvyn Tan on Kevin Volan’s L’Africaine

2pm-3.30pm, Various Locations

Paper Presentation Session 7 — Performances and Practices: Analysing Performance (Location: Ensemble Room 2)

• Cecilia Oinas and Danijel Detoni: Iowing Between Tactile and Sonic-Corporeality, Empathy and Bonding in Piano Four Hands Music
• Nicholas Sutherland Kennedy: Reflectiongs on a Recording — A Case Study in the Interaction between Analysis and Praxis

Paper Presentation Session 7 — Performances and Practices: Tradition and Innovation (Location: Recital Studio)

• Neal Peres Da Costa and Anna Fraser: Reimagining Schubert’s song cycle “Schwanengesang” through novel artistic and practice-led methods
• Lin Xiangning: “Made expressly for the climate!”

3.30pm-4pm, Orchestra Hall Foyer
Flowing Coffee

4pm-4.30pm, Orchestra Hall
Closing Dialogue

7.30pm-9pm, Concert Hall
Performance: Southeast Asian Golden Age Symphony Premiere

9pm-10.30pm, Orchestra Hall
Closing Reception

ABOUT THIS EVENT

Human experience is filled with flowing resonances: from distant stars, to temple bells, from concert stages, to the creative depths translated into a musical phrase – being a performer present is embodying flowing resonances.

As the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music celebrates its 20th year, we reflect upon musical resonances flowing in and out of Southeast Asia and particularly – since hosting its inaugural artistic research symposium in 2009 – towards the global synergistic growth in the field of artistic research.

As with our four previous artistic-research symposia, Flowing Resonances seeks to address the kaleidoscopic issues facing musicians as they develop their musical art; creative practices rippling within the repercussions of global sociopolitical shifts – including the 2020 pandemic, the climate crisis, and the everevolving digital landscape – all challenging and inspiring what it means to be a twenty-first century musical artist.

Please join us for what promises to be a fun and inspiring day! Find a detailed breakdown of the events going on and register at webapp.performerspresent2023.com.

TICKETING INFORMATION

Register at webapp.performerspresent2023.com.

Out of respect for other concertgoers, no children under 6 years of age will be allowed admission.

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