Everything we know about music derives from a very heterogeneous set of sources including the live experience, related objects, paper-based sources, and nowadays also more and more digital content. With the transfer of digital or digitized content and connected technologies into archives, it is necessary to change both native digital and digitized content into archivable formats and selections. This requires creative solutions for the challenge of transferring these sources to archiving institutions and being able to store them there. How to structure and classify this content related to the non-digital sources? What is archived and what is not – and how may this influence future performances? Or are completely different approaches needed to preserve pieces of music for analysis, listening and performance? Participants from various fields such as music research, archival science, media studies, archiving institutions and performance will present their projects and ideas, and discuss the various approaches and challenges.

The fourth edition of the biannual Symposium on Archiving and Re-Performing Electroacoustic Music AREM takes place on Friday, November 29th in the afternoon and November 30th in the morning. The interdisciplinary and international symposium will follow the topic “Technologies”.

The symposium is organized by Prof. Dr. Miriam Akkermann, Ernst-von-Siemens Endowed Professorship, Freie Universität Berlin. 

The symposium is designed as an online format, but this year, there will also be the possibility to listen to the lectures in Berlin on site (at FU Berlin, Institute for Theatre Studies, Hörsaal) in a hybrid setting. Participation is free of charge, registration is required. 

Please register at: AREM2024@theater.fu-berlin.de

SCHEDULE

Friday, 29.11.2024; 14.00 – 18.30 (Berlin time, Zoom/Hörsaal, Institut for Theatre Studies)

14.00 p.m.              Virtual and real doors open

14.15 – 14.30          Welcome       (Miriam Akkermann)

14.30 – 16.00          Session 1 – Institutional approaches 

Matthias Kassel (Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel): “Digital Shelving: Examples from the Paul Sacher Foundation's Hybrid Archive“

Lara Le Drian (Philharmonie Luxembourg): “Preserving and promoting audiovisual collections in an active cultural institution: the forgotten and changing collections at the Philharmonie of Luxembourg”

Thomas Neuhaus (Folkwang University of the Arts), Sarah Youssef (Managing Director, Digi-Kunst.nrw): "Challenges in Archiving Non-Text-Based Media at Art and Music Academies: ICEM as a Case Study and the Digi-Kunst.nrw Project as a Potential Solution"

 

16.00 – 16.30          Coffee Break

16.30 – 17.30         Session 2 – Needs and demands

Mara Helmuth (University of Cincinnati): Impulse: “A Composer's View on Sustaining Interactive Music Performance“

Anna Schäffler: Impulse: "Adapting Archival Practice: Paradigm Shifts due to Contemporary Challenges" 

17.30 - 18.30           Session 3 – Networks and data bases

Anita Jóri (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg): Impulse: “‘Morgen ist die Frage‘: On the Necessity of Archiving Berlin's Techno Histories”

Marc Battier: “Framework for documenting East Asia Electroacoustic Musical Works: The EMSAN database”

 

 

Saturday, 30.11.2024; 10.00 – 14.00  (Berlin time, Zoom/Hörsaal, Institut for Theatre Studies)

10.00 a.m.               Virtual and real doors open

10.15 – 11.45         Session 4 – Re/Presentation

Melissa Portaels (Artes KU Leuven Libraries): Impulse: “Luc Brewaeys’ Symphonic Legacy”

Nadja Wallaszkovits (ABK Stuttgart): “The restoration of the video installation Joseph Beuys CELTIC + ~~~. Reflections on the technical realisation and re-assembling in the context of the exhibition 'On Air: The Sound of the Material in Art from the 1950s to the 1970s', Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld”

Felix Mittelberger (ZKM Karlsruhe): “Reconstructing Harald Bode. From Archive to Ear”

 

11.45 – 12.15           Coffee Break

12.15 – 13.45          Session 5 – Maintenance, restoration, and beyond

Pierre Couprie (Paris-Saclay University, RASM-CHCSC) and Nathanaëlle Raboisson (Motus Musical Ensemble, IReMus): “Documentation, Analyses and Models of Loudspeaker Orchestras: The Acousmonium as a Case Study”

Miller Puckette and Serge Lemouton (IRCAM, Paris): “Jupiter: a Case Study in Live Electronic Music Preservation”

Victor Zappi (Northeastern University): “LDSP: Hacking Mobile Phones to Preserve Technology and Music Beyond Obsolescence”

 

13.45                        Farewell

 

 

 

Links to the former events

AREM2022

AREM2020

AREM2018