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Welcome to the 24th symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Musical Instruments which will take place from 29th march to 01st April, 2023, at the Faculty of Music in the University of the Visual and Performing Arts, UVPA, Colombo. The symposium will accommodate both onsite and online presentations in the English language.
For Attendee Registration:
THEMES
SOUND MANIPULATION ON/THROUGH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: REFINING VERSUS SIMPLIFICATION IN TRANSMISSION AND PERFORMANCE
HUMANS AND THEIR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AS PART OF NATURE
Abstract Book
Final Programme Plan
Number (1, 2, 3, 4) – day
ia – in absence
ip – in person
yellow marker – in person presented without pre-recording
Session A – first morning 9.00 am – 10.30 am
Session B – second morning 11.00 am – 12.30 pm
Session C – first afternoon 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm
Session D – second afternoon 4.00 pm – 5.30 pm
Session E – after duties
Only members of ICTM can be session chairs except for the opening. All single papers are of 20 minutes + 10 min Q&A. So, each session is 90 minutes long. The sessions will take place at UVPA in a class room equipped with offline and online equipment. Single sessions and Q&A are open to all attendees. The excursion and some performances will be available as documentaries.
1A chair: Saman Panapitiya (ip) / Ranjith Fernando (ip)
Opening (20 Min) Rinko Fujita (ia) / Ranjith Fernando (ip)
The Ideals of Nature in Guqin Performance Practice: The 7-Stringed Chinese Zither Guqin
Hoh Chung Shih (ip)
Workshop (55 min)
1B chair: Rasto Jakovljevic (ip)
A Newly Emerging and Socially Inclusive ‘Pitiful’ Sound: Okinawan Ryukyu Karen in the View of Art Therapy and Well-being
Huang Wan (ia)
The Tuvan khöömei throat-singing and its Igil Accompaniment as Instruments of Nature
Choduraa Tumat (ia) and Bernard Kleikamp (ia)
TBA
Saida Daukeyeva (ia)
1C chair: Huang Wan (ia)
The Future of Instrumental Sound and Instrumentalists
Gisa Jaehnichen (ip)
The Evolution of Sanjo with a Focus on the Refining Process of the Seong Geumyeon School of Gayageum Sanjo
Jocelyn Clark (ia)
Studies on Resonators of Local Wind Instruments in Southwest China
Yang Chen杨 琛 (ip)
1D chair: Ahmad Faudzi Musib (ia)
The Functionality of Instrumental Timbre in Religious Rituals
Zhong Weicheng (ia)
Biegga, Čáhci, Duoddarat, and other ‘Geo-Phones’: Polyorganicity of Sápmi and Environmental Accompaniments to Sami Yoiks
Nicola Renzi (ia)
The Mandoharp Creation of Amaradheva and its Use in the 1980s and 1990s
Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda (ip)
2A chair: Gisa Jaehnichen (ip)
The Use of Conch Shells (Hak Gedi) in Sri Lankan Cultural Context
Iranga Samindani Weearkkody (ip)
Refining Pluralism or Over Simplifications of Musical Cultures
Gerald Ng Kea Chye (ia)
The Long Drum of Yao Lusheng in the Fuchuan Area of Guangxi
Lu Song (ia)
2B chair: Timkehet Teffera (ia)
The Production of Tabla in Sri Lanka
Nishadi P. Meddegoda (ip)
Stones Can Also Be Used as Musical Instruments
Yang Yujia (ia)
The Flow of “Han”: Woong Yi Lee’s Transnational “Musicking” Research
Xue Tong (ia)
2C chair: Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda (ip)
The Lithuanian Diaspora Brass Bands in the USA
Rūta Žarskienė (ia)
A New Conversation of Viola and Zhongruan
Andrew Filmer(ia) and Sulwyn Lok (ia)
Bamboo Siblings: The Mouth Organs in Continental Southeast Asia and China
Liu Xiangkun (ip)
2D chair: Jocelyn Clark (ia)
Vocalized Strings: Uniqueness in the Layers of Alice in Chains
W.M.D.A.L.B. Tilakaratna (ip)
Re-constructing the Azande Manza Xylophones of Northern DR Congo through Artistic Experimentation
Adilia On-ying Yip (ip)
The Role of Spirituality and Nature in Iranian Performance Traditions
Sahereh Astaneh (ia)
From 6.00 pm to 7.00 pm on Sri Lankan time – Cultural Show
3A chair: Charudaththe Bandara Illangasinghe (ip)
On the Relationship Between Zhuang qīxiánqín and Similar Musical Instruments
Chu Zhuo (ia)
Timbral Manipulation of Flute Sound in Flamenco as a Process of Indigenisation
Massimo Cattaneo (ia)
Refining vs. Simplification in Sape players Tusau Padan, Matthew Ngau Jau, Jerry Kamit, and Tuyang Tan Ngan’s Transmission and Performance on and through Sound Manipulation
Ahmad Faudzi Musib (ia)
3B chair: Gerald Ng Kea Chye (ia)
Embracing Nature and Producing Instruments: The Case of Waza Trumpets of the Bertha
Timkehet Teffera (ia)
Pa’O Khaya Revealed: New Materialism in Ethnographic Organology
Christopher A. Miller (ia)
Nurturing Music with the Nature: Sound construction of vaCopi timbila and cimbveka
Joaquim Borges Gove (ia)
3C chair: Iranga S. Weerakkody (ip)
The Science behind the Art of Making the Gataberaya
Bandara, K. (ip), Samarasinghe, K. (ip), Embogama, S. (ip), & Nethsinghe, R. (ip)
Screening time of related video material (80 Minutes)
3D chairs: Gisa Jaehnichen (ip) / Rastko Jakovljevic (ip) / Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda (ip) / Rinko Fujita (ia)
Business meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Musical Instruments
Agenda of the Business Meeting:
- Short Report of the 24th Symposium (Chinthaka prageeth Meddegoda)
- Suggestion of next symposium (Rastko Rastko Jakovljevic)
- Suggestion for next SIMP VIII (deadlines, shape, requirements: Gisa Jaehnichen/Alex Dea)
- Preparation for next election (voting election committee) during the next symposium (Rinko Fujita)
- Suggestions for next topics (Gisa Jaehnichen + Rastko Jakovljevic)
Misc (Rinko Fujita)
4A – D Excursion to a village of instrument makers + Kandy, return to Colombo. Picking up at the hotel or the university.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Huang Wan – phoebehw@126.com
Manfred Bartmann – mbfrisiaorientalis@gmail.com
Timkehet Teffera – timkehet.teffera@mdc-berlin.de
Alex Dea – sinom_49@heavenlychimes.com
Gisa Jähnichen – gisajaehnichen@web.de (Study Group Chair)
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE:
Dr. Saman Panapitiya (Dean/Faculty of Music)
Dr. Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda
Dr. Sampath Chandrasiri
Professor Iranga Weerakkody
Kamani Samarasinghe
Kamalinie Samarakoon
E. M. I. Edirisooriya
B. A. K. M. Rajapaksha
K. A. A. Indunil
A. M. Chandralal Amarakoon
A. M. R. S. K. Alagiyawanna
D. A. C. Atapattu
C. B. Illangasinghe
Niluka D. Thilakarathne