[spectre] ZKM/symposium/COM.UNITY - Transformations of musical practices

[Irina Koutoudis]

ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
April 2004-04-27
 
Infomail No 12
 
 
Thursday, 6 May – Saturday, 8 May 2004
 
C O M . U N I T Y – Transformations of musical practices

Symposium in conjunction with the ZKM exhibition “Cool Hunters – Young 
People between the Market and the Media” scheduled for 2005
 
ZKM | Media Theatre, admission free
 
 
Organisers: Klaus Neumann-Braun (Koblenz-Landau), Birgit Richard 
(Frankfurt/Main) und Jannis Androutsopoulos (Hanover) in cooperation 
with the ZKM and the BWB State Institute for Communication (Stuttgart).
 
The COM.UNITY symposium examines the contours of a new music culture in 
the complex inter-relationship between society and community. Various 
aspects will be dealt with during six thematic sessions, two panel 
discussions and a club evening.
 
 
Programme
 
Thursday, 6 May
14:00             Introduction
				I. Fans, scenes, tribes: How have pop music and music scenes 
changed and how do the fans relate to them?

 

Friday, 7 May

9:00           	II. Selling out the scene: What impact is 
commercialisation having on the world of music and its consumers?

14:00           	III. Sampling: What new musical styles are being 
created by sampling and what copyright issues are 				emerging?

16:30          	IV. Digital music worlds: How are music-centred online 
communities constructed?

17:30           	Panel 1: Music portals: Between content, opinion forum 
and start-up.

20:00           	Club evening: Live acts featuring Rupert Huber / Tosca 
(Vienna); Jan Jelinek / Farben (Berlin); David 				Moufang / Source 
Recs. (Heidelberg)
 
Saturday, 8 May

9:30               V. Glocal sounds: How authentic is localised hip-hop?

14:00           	Panel 2: P2PMP3ABO / new distribution channels: From 
sound storage medium and chart success to the Internet 				und file 
sharing – will the traditional music business survive the Internet?

16:00           	VI. Clipping gender: What role do video clips and 
music TV play in shaping gender relations?
 
 
Presentations by Jannis Androutsopoulos (Hanover) / Tony Bennett 
(Surrey) / Martin Büsser (Mainz) / Christoph Dreher (Stuttgart) / 
Stephan Habscheid (Chemnitz) / Gerd Hurm (Trier) / Olaf Karnik 
(Cologne) / Gabriele Klein (Hamburg) / Hannes Loh (Cologne) / Klaus 
Neumann-Braun (Landau) / Birgit Richard (Frankfurt) / Bernd Rückwardt 
(Kaiserslautern) / Axel Schmidt (Landau) / Gerriet K. Sharma (Cologne) 
/ Inez Templeton (Edinburgh) / Peter Weibel (Karlsruhe) / Michael 
Wetzel (Bonn)
 
Panellists: Ulrike Altig-Wilkesmann (Stuttgart) / Luke Beck (Basel) / 
Rainer Henze (Konstanz) / Christian 'Fu' Müller (Düsseldorf) / Gero 
Pflaum (Hamburg) / Hubert Wandjo (Mannheim)
 
 
For more information please visit our website: www.zkm.de
 
Contact:
 
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
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76135 Karlsruhe
Fon: 0049(0)721 / 8100 – 1200
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