PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC COMPOSING:
Links between Music and Visual Arts
 
16–19 October 2012, Vilnius
 
 
Conference's website: http://pmc.lmta.lt/EN.html
 
CONFERENCE AGENDA
 
 
Tuesday 16 October
 
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre,
Main Building, Juozas Karosas Hall (Gedimino ave. 42)
 
10.00–14.00 Masterclass for composition students 
Tutored by Adam MELVIN, Mārtiņš VIĻUMS
 
16.00–19.00 Composers‘ session
 
16.00 Adam MELVIN (University of Ulster, Magee College, Northern Ireland), Light Music: Crossdisciplinary Approaches to Mixed Media Composition in Fulgurite Chamber (2012)
 
17.00 Mārtiņš VIĻUMS (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre), Microsonority as Articulation of Color and Space in Mārtiņš Viļums' The Sense of the Past for string orchestra
 
18.00 Dimitris BATSIS (University of Ioannina, Greece), Anastasia GEORGAKI (University of Athens, Greece) & Panagiotis TIGKAS (University of Bristol, UK), Cardiac Biomusic
 
 
Wednesday 17 October
 
Headquarters of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union (A. Mickevičiaus str. 29)
 
9.00 Registration of participants
 
9.30 Opening of the conference
 
Session 1: General assumptions concerning the links between sound and image. The phenomenon of M. K. Čiurlionis
 
Moderator Rimantas JANELIAUSKAS
 
10.00 Anna SHVETS (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland), Contemporary Music and Visual Arts in the Light of Postmodern Philosophy
 
10.30 Markos LEKKAS (Ionian University, Greece), Optical and Acoustical Gestalt, Illusioning the Brain
 
11.00 Gražina DAUNORAVIČIENĖ (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre), A Sketch of Art Nouveau Signs in M. K. Čiurlionis’ Music
 
11.30 Mantautas KRUKAUSKAS (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre), Lithuanian Memes in M. K. Čiurlionis Music, Paintings and Texts
 
12.00–12.30 Coffee break
 
 
Session 2: Visualisation of musical means of composing
 
Moderator Rimantas ASTRAUSKAS
 
12.30 Bianca ŢIPLEA TEMEŞ (Gh. Dima Music Academy, Cluj, Romania), The Image Behind the Music: Visual Elements in Ligeti´s Oeuvre
 
13.00 Achilleas CHALDAEAKES, Anastasia GEORGAKI (University of Athens, Greece), Visual Aspects of Byzantine Music Modes: Exploring the “Ethos” of Byzantine Melopoeia through Acoustic Analysis
 
13.30 Ewa KOWALSKA-ZAJĄC (Academy of Music, Łódź, Poland), The Genre of Music Graphics in The Output of Polish Composers in the Second Half of the 20th Century
 
 
16.00 Presentation of ideas for composing music
 
Igor VOROBYOV, Anna SHVETS, and Marius BARANAUSKAS present and comment on their own music
 
 
 
Thursday 18 October
 
Headquarters of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union (A. Mickevičiaus str. 29)
 
Session 3: Muscial pictures and visual music
 
Moderator Lina NAVICKAITĖ-MARTINELLI
 
10.00 Eka CHABASHVILI (Tbilisi State Conservatory, Georgia), Music Inside Pictures and the Process of the Visualization of Music by the Multi-topophonic Composition Technique
 
10.30  Inesa DVUZHYLNAYA (Grodno State University, Belarus), Musicality of Paintings by Gregory Fried
 
11.00 Steven ELISHA (Georgia Southern University, USA), Inspiration and Connection: Solomon Valley Inspires Landscape Paintings, a Solo Cello Suite, Haiku Poetry and 24 Kansas Communities 
 
11.30–12.00 Coffee break
 
Moderator Ramūnas MOTIEKAITIS
 
12.00 Laima VILIMIENĖ (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre), Musical Painting and Painterly Music in the Art of A. Schoenberg and W. Kandinsky
 
12.30 Blake PARHAM (University of Adelaide, Australia), Andrzej Panufnik and Andre Dzierzynski: Art, Music and Poland 
 
13.00 Irena FRIEDLAND (Haifa University, Tel Aviv University, Izrael), Ut Pictura Musica: Interactions between Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments and Analytic Cubism in Visual Arts
      
 
Piano.lt Concert Hall (Trakų str. 9 / Kėdainių str. 1)
 
19.00  Concert: Unidentified piano cycles by M. K. Čiurlionis
 
Presented by musicologist Prof. Darius KUČINSKAS
 
Performed by pianists Petras GENIUŠAS, Rimantas JANELIAUSKAS, Sergejus OKRUŠKO, Halina RADVILAITĖ, Jurgis KARNAVIČIUS, Aleksandra ŽVIRBLYTĖ
 
 
Friday 19 October
 
Headquarters of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union (A. Mickevičiaus str. 29)
 
Session 4: Links between sound and image in diverse arts
 
Moderator Mantautas KRUKAUSKAS
 
10.00 Antanas KUČINSKAS (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre), Interaction between Music and Image in Film: Presumptions and Typology
 
10.30 Marina LUPISHKO (France), Music and Architecture: Engaging into a Dialogue?
 
11.00 Inga JANKAUSKIENĖ (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute), Sounding Picturesque City
 
11.30–12.00 Coffee break 
 
Moderator Antanas KUČINSKAS
 
12.00 Ljudmila KAZANTSEVA (Astrakhan Conservatory, Volgograd Institute of Art and Culture, Russia), The Musical Portrait
 
12.30 Lina NAVICKAITĖ-MARTINELLI (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, University of Helsinki), Composing Identities: Visual Representations of Music Performers
 
13.00 Marta SZOKA (Academy of Music, Łódź, Poland), Visual Aspects of the Music Performance
 
13.30 Final discussion. Closing of the conference
 
 
PAPER POSTERS:
 
Larisa ELISHA (Georgia Southern University, USA), Giants of French Impressionism in Music and Visual Art
 
Stela GUŢANU (Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania), Only One Tree and So Many Birds by G. Balint – a Musical Representation of The Tescani Park by Horia Bernea
 
Kalliopi STIGA (College of Kea, Cyclades, Greece), Words, Pictures, Sounds: ‘Greekness’ expressed by Odysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos and Mikis Theodorakis
 
Margarita KATUNYAN (Moscow Conservatory, Russia), The Concert Paradigm in the 16th and 17th Centuries: Sound and the Audiovisual Conception of Space
 
Igor VOROBYOV (St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia), Derivative Replication in the Soviet Art of the 1930–1950s (with the Example of Friedrich Ermler’s Film She is Defending the Motherland and Gavriil Popov’s Second Symphony The Motherland)
 
Madalina HOTORAN (Emanuel University of Oradea, Romania), Music and Paintings in Eduard Terényi’s Creation
 
Rimantas JANELIAUSKAS (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre), Realization of Lithuanian Sound and Visual Archetypes in M. K. Čiurlionis‘ Compositions
 
Organisers of the conference:
Lithuanian Composers' Union
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
 
Conctact:
Marius Baranauskas, Coordinator of the conference
E-mail: pmc@lmta.lt