2021
DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2021.1893681
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Empty Minds: Innovating Audience Participation in Symphonic Practice

Abstract: Symphony orchestras today acknowledge the need to make their art relevant again in today's societies and innovate their practices. When these innovations regard audience participation, they challenge the ritualised formats of classical music performance and disrupt normative, social, and artistic traditions. The orchestra therefore presents an interesting case to develop a better understanding of the value-laden dynamics of innovation in public participation. Implicit notions of an 'ideal public' and its desir… Show more

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“…The rhythm and speed of the performance conductor of a large symphony orchestra represent the emotional changes of the music [1] . How to unleash a high level of conducting art is a question that every conductor is deeply contemplating.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The rhythm and speed of the performance conductor of a large symphony orchestra represent the emotional changes of the music [1] . How to unleash a high level of conducting art is a question that every conductor is deeply contemplating.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…observations were meant to serve a practical aim too. They not only function as an 'end result' in the form of this dissertation but also played a role throughout the process of the larger project: my observations became part of conversations with staff and musicians of the orchestra, my analyses served as mirrors that enabled reflection while doing experiments, and my writings ended up as material in the collaborative learning model we, researchers, staff members, and orchestral musicians, developed together (see www.artfulparticipation.nl; Peters et al, 2020;Spronck et al, 2021;Van de Werff et al, forthcoming). 8 While conducting this research about the innovation of audience participation in symphonic music, I was thus also part of a project that, together with a symphony orchestra, was experimenting with that very theme in practice.…”
Section: The Innovation Of Audience Participation In Symphonic Musicmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These children were the quietest of all, so there, they agree, their aim of creating a moment of attentive listening in silence worked out best (Field notes, 11 April 2019). 57 An adaptation of this section has been published as article in Science as Culture (Spronck et al, 2021).…”
Section: Empty Minds? Giving the Audience A New Aesthetic Responsibil...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…This book, the result of a research project in the Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music (MCICM), founded in 2018, is proof of that. So far, the concert ritual has been critically questioned as a site for innovation, leading to the creation of new concert formats, experimental concert spaces, and alternative ways for the audience to participate (Idema, 2012;Pitts, 2005;Spronck, 2022;Toelle & Sloboda, 2019). Recently, and in light of the rise of social and political movements such as Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and Fridays for Future, issues of decolonisation and diversification of the canon, equality, and sustainability have been added to the mountain of challenges that classical music faces.…”
Section: Aachen May 2023mentioning
confidence: 99%