The conference handbook is now available under the menu item “Programme“.
Author Archives: r15
Public bus services
Follow this link for the full timetable for public bus services between Leirvik bus terminal ald
Conference bus services
The conference has booked transfer buses in the morning and afternoon between Leirvik and Rommetveit. We have also booked buses for occasions such as Bresler’s presentation at the Kulturhuset, and return after the Grill party. Below is the timetable for the conference buses:
BUS TRANSFERS
Date & Time Departure Destination Comments
08.06 12:00 STORD HOTEL ROMMETVEIT Bus stops at Leirvik terminal and Grand
08.06 17:00 ROMMETVEIT STORD HOTEL Via Grand Hotel
09.06 08:30 STORD HOTEL ROMMETVEIT Via Grand Hotel
09.06 12:10 LEIRVIK BUSSTERM. ROMMETVEIT
09.06 16:30 ROMMETVEIT STORD HOTEL Via Grand Hotel
10.06 08:30 STORD HOTEL ROMMETVEIT Via Grand Hotel
10.06 10:30 ROMMETVEIT STORD KULTURHUS For those attending Bresler’s seminar
10.06 12:20 STORD KULTURHUS ROMMETVEIT For those attending Bresler’s seminar
10.06 23:59 ROMMETVEIT STORD HOTEL Via Grand Hotel
11.06 08:30 STORD HOTEL ROMMETVEIT Via Grand hotel
11.06 16:30 ROMMETVEIT STORD HOTEL Via Grand hotel and Leirvik terminal
11.06 18:15 ROMMETVEIT STORD HOTEL Via Grand hotel, for GRS
12.06 08:30 STORD HOTEL ROMMETVEIT Via Grand hotel, for GRS
12.06 16:30 ROMMETVEIT LEIRVIK
Abstracts available
Abstracts for the PhD candidate presentations are now uploaded for both GRS and NAFOL. The two documents are available under Programme –> Abstracts
Professor Ted Solís
Invited scholar: Prof. Ted Solís
Time: Wednesday 10th 13:15 – 14:15
Title: Why Improvisation? Do we seek “tradition” or competency?
Where do our allegiances lie, in teaching, e.g., Javanese gamelan—a venerable tradition fraught with ritual, iconic, and performance conventions; or Mexican marimba music, which in its more traditional contexts is largely reproductive rather than improvisational? Should our allegiance be to the tradition, and does that tradition delineate our pedagogical goals? Many ethnomusicologists try to compensate for the perceived artificiality of the university environment by “faithfully” reproducing traditions. More recently some of us have found our pedagogic demands and personal predilections trumping reproductive “authenticity” for two reasons: First: we represent these traditions to our students, obliterating the performance and teaching hierarchies inherent in traditional learning.
Since we must thus do it all (create the context, teach all the instruments, singing, dancing) we of necessity make compromises. Secondly: we feel that these compromises lead to fruitful creativity and insights. My own goals are now more oriented toward skill sets and my students’ personal growth (notably including their perceived freedom to improvise) than, necessarily, a soi-disant reproductive “correctness”; thus, I often “mix and match” pedagogies and skill competencies. In seeking improvisational freedom, and to suit my reflexive pedagogical goals, I have created somewhat non-traditional but vibrant Pan-Indonesianisms and Pan-Latinisms in my ensembles.
Ethnomusicologist Ted Solís is Professor of Music in the School of Music, Arizona State University, USA. He holds an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Hawaii- Manoa, and the PhD in Music from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. His field research has included Northern India, Mexico, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. He directs the School of Music’s Latin Marimba band “Marimba Maderas de Comitán” and the Javanese gamelan “Children of the Mud Volcano.” He is the editor of Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Musics (University of California Press, 2004); is co-author, with Gerhard Kubik, of “Marimba” in the Grove’s Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2014; authored the article (by invitation) “’The Song is You’: From External to Internal in Ethnomusicological Performance” (in College Music Symposium Special Issue on “Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching: Then, Now, and Into the Future,” 2014); and is co-editing the book in progress Ethnomusicological Lives, the first major “ethnomusicology of ethnomusicologists”(University of Illinois Press).
Essential places (on map)
Hotels and their position relative to bus stops (coastal bus & transfer to SHUC campus) and Leirvik quay (express boat)
Stord / Haugesund University Campus and Leirvik city center, incl. hotels
Hotels
Grand Hotel
Web site:
http://www.grand-hotell.com/no/
Link to google map
Stord Hotel
Web site:
In norwegian: http://www.stord-hotel.no/no/
In english: http://www.stord-hotel.no/en
Link to google map
Nafol PhD sessions published
PhD candidates who belong to NAFOL may now look up their times for presenting papers, individual master classes or process seminars. The schedules are available under Programme –> PhD sessions (NAFOL).
Process seminars (NAFOL)
Thursday June 11 th 10.45 – 12.15
Room: UND 160
Candidate | Opponent | Chair |
Tony Burner | Anne Line Wittek | Marit Kulild |
Master classes (NAFOL)
Wednesday June 10 th 13.15 – 14.15
Room: UND 262
Candidate | Opponent | Chair: |
Siv Yndestad Borgen | Gert Biesta | Sissel Høisæter |
Room: UND 303
Candidate | Opponent | Chair |
Kirsten Linnea Kruse | Hannah Kaihovirta | Gry Tuset |
Thursday June 11 th 13.15 – 14.15
Room: UND 262
Candidate | Opponent | Chair |
Anne Karin Orseth | Anna-Lena Østern | Helga Aadland |
Nora Sitter | Liora Bresler | Helga Aadland |