CHARM Symposium 6: Playing with recordings
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham - 11-13 September 2008
How do musicians use recordings and what has been their impact? In this final CHARM symposium we explored the attitudes towards recordings of performers and teachers, along with the ways in which recordings contribute to both the maintenance of musical culture and processes of style change. Do recordings prompt or inhibit style change? Have they resulted in stylistic convergence, as is often claimed? And what is the relationship between such processes and the technological or business history of recording? Might technology and business practices be seen as the principal drivers of performance style in the age of recordings? In addressing the interface between recordings and the professional practice of performance, the symposium paved the way for the transition to CHARM's successor centre from April 2009, the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice.
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Click on the links below to view some of the papers from CHARM Symposium 6 (please note that for copyright reasons, music examples listed in the papers may not be available to download):
- Matthias Arter, Beethoven's Fifth - a passage to the 19th century (pdf file)
- Amy Carruthers, Out of the concert hall and into the control room: Mackerras and his musicians in the recording studio (pdf file)
- Mine Doğantan-Dack, Something old, something new, something borrowed, something true: questions of aesthetics and epistemology in using recordings (pdf file)
- Beth Elverdam and George Brock-Nannestad, How musicians use recordings in discourse and in praxis - in the perspective of an anthropological dynamic concept of culture (pdf file)
- Pekka Gronow, Recycling history: learning performance practice from records (pdf file)
- Andrew Hallifax, The engineer as stylist (pdf file)
- Tony Harrison and Sigurd Slåttebrekk, Being the go-between: recreating Grieg's 1903 Paris recordings (pdf file)
- Alexander Kolkowski and Federico Reuben, Horatio Oratorio: composing using historic sound recordings (pdf file)
- Ananay Aguilar, Report from symposium 6 (pdf file)