Selected Participants

2023 Third International Symposium of Contemporary Music Research

"Contemporary Music, Present and Future"

The Department of Ethnomusicology, Nanhua University will hold this international symposium from April to June 2023.  Firstly, sincere thanks to everyone who applied, and congratulations to all the successful applicants!  We are honoured to have your participation in this symposium of new works and contemporary music research.  The symposium consists of three parts: 

1. Keynote Address in Mandarin by Pan Hwang-Long (Saturday April 29th)

2. Symposium, featuring selected musicological papers, the Yannis Kyriakides' Keynote Address in English (Saturday May 27th)

3. Two Composer Forums, featuring presentations from the composers of the selected works (June 2 and 9)

We shall also be organising video/audio recordings of those of the selected works which remain currently unrecorded.

If you have any questions, please write to us at the following email address: music.conference.nhu@gmail.com. 

This year we had applications for twelve papers and seventeen compositions, from which we selected eight papers and four compositions for inclusion.  The following participants' papers and/or compositions have been selected (non-Chinese names are listed in alphabetical order; Chinese names are listed in order of stroke count):

Selected papers (eight in total)

・Joevan de Mattos Caitano — International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt from the perspective of Taiwanese composers and performers  

・Sam Cave — Overtone Influences – some recent developments in the application of spectral resources    

・Wallace Crossman — A Korean-Australian Aesthetic within  Breathing Materiality of Spirit and Being

・Mu-Xuan Lin — The Melancholy and the Erotic of a Sincere Postmodern Identity : the cinematic spaces and a     vulnerable time 

    林慕萱 — 「一個真誠後現代主體的憂鬱與情欲：電影式空間與脆弱的時間」

・Riccardo D. Wanke — Geometries in Sound: the embodied cognition of Sound-based Music 

・鄭艷麗 —  潑墨為染，濃描淡寫——胡曉新作《聲腔·板式》分析

   Yanli Zheng —  "Splash Ink and Draw gently": The analysis of Hu Xiao’s new composition, Opera Tune and    

   Rhythmic Form 

・劉冬艷 — 「手風琴與電子音樂相結合的音色音響構建與探究」

    Liu Dong-Yan  —  The construction and exploration of timbral and sonic combinations of accordion and electronic music

・ Chan Chak Hang  —   A comparative study of E. Blackwood’s Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic     

    Music Media, opus 28, 15 note (6th movement) and Gamelan Slendro scale (c. 5-ET). How do timbre and  

    temperament affect the perception of consonance and dissonance?

    陳澤行 — 「音色和音律如何影響協和與不協和？ E. Blackwood的電子音樂媒介十二首微分音調練習曲，作品             28，15平均           律（第六個樂章）與印尼甘美朗的五聲音階（slendro, 約5平均律）的比較研究」

Selected compositions (four in total)

・Sam Cave — ...but their stillness showed plainly... for string quartet

・Matthew Lam  — In Extremis for string quartet

・Farzan Salsabili — Sketches with that one blurry eye for string quartet

・Yi-Ting Lu — Dust in the Air for string quartet

    呂佾庭 — 《微塵與光》

Sign-up forms for auditors will be posted on the following page: