THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM “THE ECOLOGY OF MUSIC. SOUNDSCAPES: CHURCH, MONASTERY, CITY”

Ministry of culture of the russian federation

Russian institute of the history of arts

The international research symposium

“The ecology of music. soundscapes: church, monastery, city”

Human life force is expressed by voice, and their dwelling place is surrounded by the walls of houses; thus, the fact and the purpose of human existence are expressed. The architecture of the invisible (sound and light) and the visible architecture are connected by reflections and echoes, and the walls of an architectural object can be considered as resonators of a giant musical instrument. It is for this reason that ancient Greeks built special spaces, called odeia, intentionally arranging the architectural acoustic environment. As early as in 1650, A. Kircher said in his Musurgia Universalis that sound is similar to light and is a geometric emanation of its source, thus laying the foundation of an ecologic approach to musicology and the research of soundscapes.

The problem range of our symposium is connected with musical acoustic space of religious architecture – sound and light, the symbolism of insulating by sound and preservation of silence.

The symposium will be held on April, 28^th, 2014, in the Green Hall of the Institute, postal address: 5 Isaakievskaya Square, Saint Petersburg 190000, Russia.

Forms of participation: presentation (20 min.), poster presentation, display of video and audio materials.

Submission deadlines:

April 1, 2014 – application: name, title, employment, position, postal address, e-mail, profile, supposed form of participation, topic.

June 1, 2014 – paper (up to 20.000 characters with spaces, including footnotes and references; without illustrations and note examples), symary in English (up to 250 characters). The proceedings of the symposium are planned for publication as a collection of papers „Voice in Culture”, Issue 6. E-mail address for papers and applications: golosriii@gmail.com

The organizing committee:

Irina Chudinova, research supervisor irinachud@gmail.com

Marina Sen marina_sen@mail.ru

Alisa Timoshenko alisa2507@yandex.ru

Alexey Kossykh  kossykh@gmail.com

Olga Kolganova kolganova.spb@gmail.com

Alexander Nikanorov nikanorov04@mail.ru

Dinara Bulatova dinara.bulatova@mail.ru