Performing Classical Music in the 21st Century
(2015)
author(s): Alistair Sung
published in: KC Research Portal
Name: Alistair Sung
Main Subject: Classical Cello
Research Coaches: Gerard Bouwhuis, Renee Jonker
Title of Research:
Performing Classical Music in the 21st Century
Research Question:
Can a reconsideration of presentation, programming and audience relationship influence
the response to classical music?
Summary of Results:
The financial and cultural climate of the past 50 years has changed the way in which
classical music is perceived. Where once it was valued as a crucial part of a healthy
society, it has now grown isolated from mainstream culture and has been relegated to the
periphery of modern cultural life. This paper will examine how these recent cultural and
social developments occurred and focus on their effects on the performance of classical
music in the 21st century. Through an analysis of new and existing approaches to
performance, a framework will be established which will form the basis of a test concert.
Data gained from this concert will then be analysed in order to explore the possibility of
altering existing concert conventions to respond to the problems facing the performance
of classical music. Research will be presented in the form of a research paper.
Biography:
Alistair began learning the cello in Sydney Australia with Marcus Hartstein and David
Pereira. After attending Newtown High School of Performing Arts, Alistair completed
his Bachelor Music (honours I)/Bachelor Arts (philosophy) at the University of New
South Wales in 2010. On graduating, Alistair was awarded the university medal and his
honours thesis, ‘Variety in Performance: A Comparative Analysis of Recorded
Performances of Bach’s Sixth Suite for Solo Cello’ was co-published in the Empirical
Musicology Review (Ohio State University). Alistair is currently completing a Masters
degree at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague with Larissa Groeneveld.
Alverata, hedendaagse Europese letters met wortels in de middeleeuwen
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Gerard Unger
connected to: Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This research of Gerard Unger is only available in Dutch.
De kern hiervan is een letterontwerp, gebaseerd op de combinatie van een middeleeuws en een hedendaags concept. Het middeleeuwse deel betreft de elfde en de twaalfde eeuw, de romaanse periode, en in het bijzonder de epigrafie van die tijd: romaanse kapitalen in inscripties. Deze kapitalen werden gedurende tweehonderd jaar in een groot deel van Europa toegepast. Hiernaast zijn velerlei typografische en culturele ontwikkelingen in de twintigste en de eenentwintigste eeuw de bron voor het nieuwe letterontwerp. De Alverata toont enkele middeleeuwse kenmerken die wonderwel met de modernste typografische software en voor hedendaags gebruik is toe te passen. Bovendien kan de Alverata het uitgangspunt zijn voor vernieuwend leesbaarheidsonderzoek.
Propaganda Art from the 20th to the 21st Century
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Jonas Staal
connected to: Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This study by artist Jonas Staal explores the development of propaganda art from the 20th to the 21st century.
Staal defines propaganda as the performance of power by means of the equation propaganda = power + performance. Through his work as a propaganda researcher and practice as a propaganda artist, he argues that different structures of power generate different forms of propaganda and therefore different forms of propaganda art.
Whereas in the context of the 20th century Staal discusses the differences between avant-garde, totalitarian, and modernist propaganda art, in the 21st century he proposes the categories of War on Terror Propaganda Art, Popular Propaganda Art, and Stateless Propaganda Art. By means of concrete examples of artists and artworks within each of these categories, he attempts to show how the performance of power in the 21st century translates into different visual forms, and how they shape and direct our reality.
Staal’s study shows that power and art exist in continuous interaction. Propaganda and propaganda art are not terms that only refer to the past, but concepts and practices through which we can understand the construction of reality in the present.