[AMS-announce] CONF: CCreativity, Innovation and Labour in Music, Open Univ., Milton Keynes, June 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

Creativity, Innovation and Labour in Music              
A symposium

Monday June 22nd – symposium, 9.30 – 5.00 Tuesday June 23rd – workshop on developing a network, 9.30 – 11.30

The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Central Meeting Rooms

Organisers: Dot Miell, Mark Doffman, Mark Banks, Jason Toynbee, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University Raymond MacDonald, Department of Psychology, Glasgow Caledonian University

Interdisciplinary research into music at the intersection of creativity, innovation and labour is an emerging topic that presents many challenges for researchers. For example:

•     the theme of labour calls attention to musical work, economic exploitation and the everyday processes of music making,

•     innovation takes in the problem of the nature of the new in different genres, but also questions of how musical innovation gets evaluated, rewarded or ignored,

•     and creativity gestures towards issues of origination and emergence, artifice and authenticity, the individual and the collective.

This symposium brings together experts from across the disciplines in order to develop a more coherent analysis of how these themes converge. The format consists of a series of presentations each followed by discussion with the aim of advancing our understanding of the topic, and establishing an informal research network to take things forward - a workshop on the Tuesday morning is to plan next steps.

Speakers:

Martin Cloonan, Glasgow University - Creating live music: an industrial perspective
Don Knox, Glasgow Caledonian University - Who are we innovating for? The need for interdisciplinary input in setting goals for music information retrieval
Bennett Hogg, University of Newcastle - Working through the new
Fabian Holt, University of Roskilde - Creativity and innovation in contemporary live music production
Matt Stahl, University of Western Ontario - Recording artists, employment, domination and democratization

Please contact Heather Scott (H.Scott at open.ac.uk) if you wish to register for a free place at this event. 

This is an Interdisciplinary Music Research initiative, part of The Open University’s Strategic Investment in Research