THE NEW FACE OF CHINESE MUSIC

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2 CHIME European Foundation for Chinese Music Research 19th international CHIME meeting THE NEW FACE OF CHINESE MUSIC OCTOBER 21-25, 2015 Hosted by the Haute école de musique de Genève In collaboration with the Confucius Institute of the University of Geneva Preliminary program Conference website Contact information chime2015.hem@hesge.ch Xavier Bouvier Haute école de musique de Genève, Rue de l Arquebuse 12 CH Geneva / Switzerland xavier.bouvier@hesge.ch Frank Kouwenhoven, CHIME Foundation, PO Box.11092, 2301 EB Leiden, The Netherlands chime@wxs.nl The Conference is sponsored by University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO) CHIME European Foundation for Chinese Music Research ASAEM Swiss-Asia Music Research Society 2 / 9

3 CONFERENCE THEME: THE NEW FACE OF CHINESE MUSIC Where has Chinese music gone over the past few decades? Where is it positioned today? Many artists are keen to explore new ways, new media, new platforms. Traditional music, too, is being promoted in new formats: intangible cultural heritage projects, internet archives, eco-cultural protection zones, ecomuseums, honorary life grants, special exhibitions, special concert tours and more. How are innovative spirits in China currently reshaping the country's music? Does the idea of 'going back to one's roots' have any continued relevance? What are the future perspectives for Chinese music, at home, abroad, in performative and in educational terms? In the upcoming CHIME meeting in Geneva in October 2015, we hope to tackle these questions together with some of the country's foremost contemporary composers, conservatory musicians, classical and folk musical performers: the meeting is a broad attempt to assess the current state of Chinese music. As always, we offer a platform for critical voices from many different backgrounds, from music scholars and anthropologists to music policy makers, media workers, and committed aficionados. CONFERENCE VENUE The 2015 CHIME conference will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, at the centre of Europe. Sitting at the southern tip of the beautiful Lac Léman, the city is surrounded by the Alps and Jura mountains, with spectacular views on Mont- Blanc. Headquarters of Europe s United Nations and the Red Cross, it s a global hub for diplomacy. French influence is widespread, from the language, culture, to gastronomy. The conference is hosted by the Haute école de musique de Genève (Geneva University of Music), one of the most comprehensive and dynamic music school in Europe, welcoming teachers and students from all around the world. The conferences and concerts will take place the historical building of the Conservatoire de Musique, founded 1835, and situated in Place Neuve, Geneva s cultural city centre. A few sessions will be hosted by Les Salons, a charming small theatre situated 50 meters from the main building. CONFERENCE HOST Xavier Bouvier ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Frank Kouwenhoven, CHIME, Leiden Helen Rees, Musicology Dept., UCLA, Los Angeles Wang Yi, Social Academy of Sciences, Beijing Xavier Bouvier, Haute école de Musique de Genève Lee Huaqi, Haute école de Musique de Genève Basile Zimmerman, Geneva University Confucius Institute 3 / 9

4 MAP OF GENEVA MAP OF CONFERENCE LOCATIONS 4 / 9

5 Preliminary program WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER Registration, coffee /tea Registration Conference bureau at 1 st Floor Coffee/tea 1 st Floor Lobby Opening Session Opening Session Grande Salle Welcome speeches - Philippe Dinkel, Director of the Haute école de musique - Micheline Louis-Courvoisier, Vice Rector of the University of Geneva - Frank Kouwenhoven, CHIME - Xavier Bouvier Music recital Film The Inner Landscape: Guo Wenjing (Netherlands, 2015, Frank Scheffer, 55 mins) Reception Conservatoire, 1 st Floor Lobby Concert Cai Yayi Nanyin Ensemble Location to be announced 5 / 9

6 THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER Plenary session Grande Salle RESHAPING CHINESE MUSIC Keynote: Frank Kouwenhoven Is Chinese music in crisis? Barbara Mittler A new Face/Phase for Chinese music and its Global Context Michael Saffle & Yang Hon-Lun Where are You Going, Chinese Music? Where Have you Been? Evaluating the East-West Exchanges from May Fourth to the Present Day Coffee / Tea Keynote: Zhou Long Chinese composer, living and working between cultures Roundtable Blind people groping at the elephant. Stephen Jones (chair) with Frank Kouwenhoven, Helen Rees and Jiang Shu Lunch Location to be announced Parallel sessions EAST-WEST EXCHANGE/MIGRATION Tan Hwee-San Sounds of the South: a real or imagined heritage? Helen Rees The changing faces of Chinese music overseas: Ritual, entertainment, commercial media and cultural diplomacy since Tan Shzr Ee Traditional Revivals and Hipster Nostalgia: Chinese music as heritage branding in Singapore. NEW CHINESE MUSIC (I) David Leung Whose Face? China Hongkongese or Hong Kong Chinese: Reshaping the Chineseness by Hearing the Quoted Tunes in Two Contemporary Hong Kong Compositions Liao Lin-Ni Western Intellectual Organization and Far Eastern Cultural Element / Ching in Acousmatic Composition - An Example of Musical and Cultural Analysis Wen Deqing From Traditional Music to Contemporary Music, from Acoustic Analysis to Musical Composition. CHINESE POPULAR MUSIC (I) Yawen Ludden Sound of Music in China s Urbanization: Migrant Singers Telling their Lives through Performance Pauline Tam The Sound of Innovation in Cyberspace: Hong Kong Copypasta Adam Kielman Creating the Local and Sounding Global in Southern China s Evolving Music Industry Coffee / Tea Parallel sessions GUQIN MUSIC Dai Xiaolian Discussing Guqin Dapu: a Musical or Archeological Purpose? Tse Chun Yan Timbre as an structural element in qin music Yang Yuanzheng Interpreting the Qin in Tokugawa Japan: Ogyū Sorai s Studies on Chinese Music. NEW CHINESE MUSIC (II) Liu Yong Where has melody gone? Hannes Jedeck Transfer of compositional concepts from Xinchao to Post-Xinchao : The composition class of Chen Xiaoyong Robert Zollitsch Chinese composer VS. composer of Chinese music. NANYIN WORKSHOP Cai Yayi Nanyin Ensemble Workshop on Nanyin singing and percussion Plenary session h00 Short music recital. Content to be announced Dinner (not organized, a list of restaurants will be provided) Concert Shanghai Sinfonietta Conservatoire, Grande Salle 6 / 9

7 FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER Plenary session PANEL - FU LEI: TRANSCULTURATION AND MUSICAL MODERNITY Xavier Bouvier Seeing Fu Lei s Transcultural Descriptions as Interpretations. Chen Guangchen En Dehors/As from the Outside: Debussy through an Oriental Eye. Jonathan Truffert Merging Opposites: Fu Lei s Approach to Music in His Letters to Fou Ts ong. John Winzenburg Fu Lei and the Grand Chinese Evening : Intransigence and Boundless Hope for China s Musical Future Coffee / Tea Keynote: Wang Cizhao Title to be announced Film Li Manshan, Portrait of a Folk Daoist (UK, 2015, Stephen Jones, 88 mins) Lunch [Please note: today only one hour for lunch!] Parallel sessions REGIONAL TRADITIONS (I) He Tingting Song and Dance of the Huayao Yi of Shiping County, Yunnan: Changing Cultural Patterns of the 21st Century Lin Wei-ya Minorities and the borrowed Power? A case study about the Tao (indigenous ethnic group in Taiwan) Zhang Xi Songs as the ritual structure: a case study of a traditional wedding ceremony in Chaozhou of South China CHINESE POPULAR MUSIC (II) Hu Zhuqing Porcelain Thing: beyond Orientalism in zhonggguofeng Mandopop Jiang Shu The Choice of Language: An Alternative Way of Tracing Roots in Chinese Rock Bao Ying Some Other Scenery: Wu Tiao Ren and The New Faces of Chinese Folksong. MUSIC HISTORY / EDUCATION Wang Ling Images of Religious Dances and Music-making related to Death from Yunnan, China Enio Souza The Chinese organology in Portugal Suse Petersen / Marc-Antoine Camp Talent Development and the Musical Self-Concept of Music Students in China and Switzerland Coffee / Tea Parallel sessions DISCUSSION PANEL - MUSIC EDUCATION IN CHINA Discussion with Wang Cizhao, Yang Yangdi, Liu Qian, Xavier Bouvier, Dai Xiaolian & other participants to be announced translation: Tan Hwee-san End of panel COMPUTER-AIDED RESEARCH He Jingyin Re-Visioning Guqin Performance Techniques Rafael Caro Repetto New technologies for jingju music research: Characterisation of roletypes using computational tools End of session REGIONAL TRADITIONS IN SONG Lukas Park Seeking the Roots in Beijing Bars: The Transformation of Rural to Urban Folk Music Ouyang Yiwen Who are the Zhuang? What is Zhuang Music? A Multi-faceted Semiotic Discussion on the Identity and Music of Zhuang Minority in Guangxi Li Shuqin A comparison of Dong minority songs in the 1950s and today Short Recital or Film screenings Short music recital Content to be announced Film screening: Dinner (not organized, a list of restaurants will be provided) Concert Yi Jia Ren Folk Daoist ritual music of north China Stephen Jones, 2014, 70 mins, Intersezioni Musicali / Fondazione Cini.(Concert registration of Li family band, Venice, 2012). 17h30-18h30 Film screening: Guo Wenjing: Si Fan Netherlands, 2015, 45 mins. (Concert registration of opera performed at the Holland Festival, Amsterdam 2015). 7 / 9

8 SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER 9.00 Parallel sessions PANEL DISCUSSION - NEW MUSIC IN CHINA Moderator: Ulrich Mosch. Panel discussion on New Music in China with Zhou Long, Wen Deqing, Wang Ying, Zhu Shirui, Robert Zollitsch. FILM The Heart of Qin in Hong Kong Maryam Goormaghtigh, Switzerland, 2013, 52', prod. Deyin Qin Society. (On qin players in Hong Kong) Short music recital Content to be announced Coffee / Tea Parallel sessions CHINESE MUSIC TODAY Nancy Rao Shi, Propensity of Things, Landscape and Musical Gesture in Contemporary Chinese Composition Chang Liu Wandering Between Home and Abroad: Fifi Rong and The Myth of Roots Lunch Parallel sessions PANEL - MOTIVATION OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGISTS: STUDIES, APPLICATION, AND ENGAGEMENT Xiao Mei A show or a dialogue: an exploration on the stage performance. Chen Zhiyi A sight for ethnomusical ethnography films. MUSIC HISTORY Du Yaxiong Chinese Elegant Music and Its inheritance Lee King-chi Elevating Cantonese Music: The Role of Musical Notations and Transcriptions François Picard The classicization of Chinese instrumental music PANEL - Chinese and Vietnamese theatre: the transformation of contemporary shows Catherine Capdeville-Zeng The modernization of rural Jiangxi Caichaxi a fieldwork study. Nathalie Gauthard Renewal and Revitalization of Chinese artistic forms and western influence: the example of U Theatre of Taiwan. Ting Matilda Lee-Ting Modern Piyingxi Displaced from Diversity. Yvonne Duong The music of modern hát bội plays. To be announced Sightseeing Dinner gala With frolic (open stage, feel free to bring your instruments) 8 / 9

9 SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER 9.30 Plenary session CHINESE POPULAR MUSIC Keynote: Nimrod Baranovitch Ethno-environmental pop songs in China Panel on Chinese popular music Chair: Andreas Steen, with Bao Ying, Adam Kielman, Nimrod Baranovitch, Jiang Shu, Hu Zhuqing, Shi Yinyun Coffee/Tea Parallel session REGIONAL TRADITIONS (II) Dong Jie Accordion music crash with silk Fang Bo / Guo Shuhui Sounds Left Over by History: Between Searching and Transitioning. Preface of the Proceedings of Fieldworks and Researches of Shi Fan Luo Gu in the Context of Etiquette and Custom at Regions South of the Yangtze River China Fu Limin The Truthfulness as Happened in Life : The Evolution and Account of Fengcheng Traditional Percussion Instruments. EAST-WEST EXCHANGE (II) Jun Zubilaga-Pow The Concepts of the Sinophone and the Siniticate in Chinese Music and Sound Research Sherlyn Chew Fostering World Peace through Chinese Music: The Power and Educational Value of Teaching Chinese Music in a Multicultural Setting Lin Yuan Osborne Radio Broadcast Concerts in Plenary session Brief closing ceremony Light meal 9 / 9

Sound, Noise and the Everyday: Soundscapes in China August 21 24, 2014

Aarhus University / CHIME Sound, Noise and the Everyday: Soundscapes in China August 21 24, 2014 Aarhus University Nobelparken Building 1483 Rooms: 244, 251, 354 and Building 1482 Auditorium: 105 All food