ARTICULATE OPEN CLASSROOMS
Artist-researchers at the Conservatoire as well as external researchers present their research to students, by elaborating on the scope of their project, introducing their methods, research processes, or (preliminary) conclusions, performing an artistic result or by supervising a workshop.
OPEN CLASSROOMS MUSIC
MIRRORING CREATIVE LAB 10:00 - 11:00
LECTURE-PERFORMANCE / language: English
by GIUSY CARUSO and students
MIRRORING CREATIVE LAB is a module led by researcher Dr. Giusy Caruso within the Conservatoire’s Research Program. Students use the ‘mirroring method’—developed in her research—to reflect on and refine their performance practice. The method supports self-analysis in preparing concerts, auditions, and recordings, fosters body–mind balance in performance, and stimulates artistic growth in creative projects and research. Dr. Caruso and her students will present the lab, sharing insights and results from the 2024–2025 academic year.
Assemblage theory and post/de-colonial perspectives in artistic practice led research
LECTURE / language: English
by KOBE VAN CAUWENBERGHE
How can we broaden and decolonize our perspective on experimental music, its canon, and the performance practices that surround it? What might the repertoire look like if we abandon the entrenched disciplinary assumptions, boundaries and divisions inherited from the last century? Engaging with recent theoretical developments in musicology and social sciences—particularly Georgina Born’s application of assemblage theory and her emphasis on the social dimensions of music— KOBE VAN CAUWENBERGHE proposes alternative frameworks for rethinking experimental music’s historical narratives and aesthetic values. Drawing on examples from some of his own past and ongoing research, he will illustrate how these theoretical insights can be mobilized in artistic practice to move beyond the work concept, to foreground marginalized voices and cultivate new relational modes of music-making that are historically aware and critically engaged.
image right: (c) Christoph Lemp