Constructing the Public Concert Hall

Author(s):  
NEIL THOMAS SMITH

Abstract In the current discourse surrounding classical music institutions, issues of inclusion and diversity are regularly to the fore. There is pressure to prove the relevance of orchestras and ensembles to wider society, with outreach work in educational settings and in communities already an established part of their output. Using data gathered from a research project with the International Music and Performing Arts Charitable Trust Scotland (IMPACT Scotland), which is responsible for planning a new concert hall in Edinburgh to be called the Dunard Centre, this article extends these debates by relocating them to a new arena: the buildings classical institutions inhabit. First, the public nature of the concert hall is explored by examining three ‘strategies for publicness’ identified in concert-hall projects: the urbanistic strategy, the living building strategy and the ‘art for all’ strategy. These will be discussed in relation to the extensive literature on public space. The second part of the article examines recent developments in musicology and arts policy which encourage more ‘democratic’ arts practice. These will be used as the basis for asking how the concert hall (and its primary tenant, the orchestra) might better achieve the publicness that is so often promised on their behalf.

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Accornero

“Certain sounds, even when they are loud or heard from close by, conjure small sources.” Small sounds, as Chion (2016) describes them in this quote, usually appear in intimate or contained settings, where their relatively low strength will not be spoiled by the masking effects of a noisy public sphere. What happens, however, when they are shared with an audience in a concert venue? Privileging a distributive understanding of agency, I explore the interactions of instruments, techniques, and processes through which the composer Clara Iannotta (b. 1983) brings small sounds to the public space of the concert hall in the first minute of her composition Intent on Resurrection – Spring or Some Such Thing (2014). By articulating the technological means harnessed to allow for the qualities of small sounds to emerge, I reveal the conditions that are required for sound to be recognized and experienced as intimate. Along the way, I draw connections between the amplification aesthetics of Iannotta’s work and Hyperrealist art, and theorize the concept of the “grain of the instrument” drawing on ideas from Roland Barthes, Pierre Schaeffer, and Brian Kane.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tal Feder

AbstractThis article studies the socioeconomics of government public expenditure for the arts and the normative foundations of state intervention in the arts. I pose two interrelated research questions: (a) what is the relationship between the public funding of the arts and their consumption? and (b) what mode of justification and what perception of the place of art in society is reflected in this relationship? Based on the philosophical work of Alan Badiou, I develop a novel conceptual framework to delineate three types of normative justifications for the public funding of arts organizations: romantic, didactic and classical. Using data from the public funding of 92 orchestras, theaters and dance troupes in Israel between 1999 and 2011, I estimate a cross-lagged panel data model to study how arts funding both affects and is affected by the levels of consumption of the organizations’ productions. The results of the study show a complex pattern of different relationships between funding and consumption that accord with the three types of normative justifications for public arts funding.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Syam Aditya Herlangga ◽  
Bayu Arsiadhi Putra ◽  
Aris Setyoko

Abstract: Turonggo Karyo Budoyo is one of the Jaranan arts groups in the city of Samarinda. This group managed to maintain its existence amidst the reduced public interest in the performing arts of jaranan, especially the youth who should be the successors in preserving local arts. It is done through the creativity offered by the Jaranan Turonggo Karyo Budoyo Art Group, which combines pop songs with jaranan gending in their performances. This study aims to analyze the processes that occur in creativity and describe how the audience's acceptance of creativity. This study uses a qualitative research methodology and a participant approach using 3 (three) stages in the study, namely determining the research location, data collection techniques, and data analysis techniques. Determination of the location aims to focus on the object of research. Data collection techniques include literature study, observation, interviews, and documentation. As for the data analysis technique using data triangulation between researcher observations, interview data, and analyzed documentation. The results of this study can answer the formulation of the problem and research objectives that have been determined. The creative process is carried out through regular practice by paying attention to the budget, duration, and song selection. The process also involves four dimensions of creativity that influence each other: person, process, press, and product. The creativity offered is well received by the public or audience. The community considers combining pop songs with gending to be one way to introduce Javanese art to the broader community, especially young people, to be preserved.   Abstrak: Turonggo Karyo Budoyo merupakan salah satu grup kesenian jaranan yang ada di kota Samarinda. Grup ini berhasil mempertahankan eksistensinya ditengah berkurangnya minat masyarakat terhadap seni pertunjukan jaranan terutama para pemuda yang seharusnya menjadi penerus dalam melestarikan kesenian daerah. Hal ini dilakukan melalui kreativitas yang ditawarkan oleh Grup Kesenian Jaranan Turonggo Karyo Budoyo, yaitu menggabungkan lagu pop dengan gending jaranan dalam pertunjukannya. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menganalisa proses yang terjadi di dalam kreativitas serta menjabarkan bagaimana penerimaan penonton terhadap kreativitas tersebut. Penelitian ini menggunakan metodologi penelitian kualitatif dan pendekatan partisipan dengan menggunakan 3 (tiga) tahapan dalam penelitian, yaitu menentukan lokasi penelitian, menentukan teknik pengumpulan data serta menentukan teknik analisa data. Penentuan lokasi bertujuan untuk memfokuskan objek penelitian. Teknik pengumpulan data meliputi studi kepustakaan, observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Adapun untuk teknik analisa data menggunakan tringulasi data antara observasi peneliti, data wawancara, dan dokumentasi yang dianalisis. Hasil penelitian ini mampu menjawab rumusan masalah dan tujuan penelitian yang telah ditentukan. Proses kreativitas dilakukan melalui latihan rutin dengan memperhatikan budget, durasi serta pemilihan lagu. Dalam prosesnya juga melibatkan empat dimensi kreativitas yang saling mempengaruhi, yaitu person (orang), process (proses), press (tekanan), serta product (produk). Kreativitas yang ditawarkan diterima baik oleh masyarakat (penonton). Penggabungan lagu pop dengan gending dinilai masyarakat menjadi salah satu cara memperkenalkan kesenian jawa kepada masyarakat luas terutama para pemuda agar dapat dilestarikan.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Bruno Costa ◽  
Luis Miguel Lopes Teixeira

A compreensão da atual realidade europeia no contexto da criação artística para o espaço público revela uma pertinência acrescida numa altura em que novos domínios da criação artística conquistam espaço na agenda europeia. Com o desenrolar deste estudo, pretendeu-se verificar e contextualizar uma nova realidade europeia no contexto da promoção e difusão de artistas e espetáculos, com impacto, ainda, ao nível da criação. As novas orientações rumo à perspetiva transnacional levam a uma tendência de criação de redes e parcerias, mas qual o papel das redes? Com recurso à compilação bibliográfica, pretendeu-se reunir as condições necessárias para a compressão do estado da arte e da criação artística para o espaço público.Palavras-chave: Artes de Rua. Artes Performativas. Redes Internacionais.ABSTRACTUnderstanding the current European reality in the field of artistic creation for the public space is becoming more pertinent at a time when new areas of artistic creation are gaining space in the European agenda. With the development of this study, it was intended to verify and contextualize a new European reality in the domains of promotion and diffusion of artists and performances, with impact, at the creation level. The new orientations towards the transnational perspective lead to a trend to create networks and partnerships, but what is the role of networks today? By bibliographical compilation, it was intended to gather the necessary information for the understanding of the state of art from artistic creation to public space.Keywords: Outdoor arts. Performing arts. International networks.


Author(s):  
Nurvita Wijayanti ◽  
Panggio Restu Wilujeng

Nowadays, slogans in the public space have become the most significant socialist symbols and meanings that are easily accessible to the public, such as the example of writing traffic signs, billboards, information boards and other media. The problem lies in the lack of attention to the linguistic element, considering that the media contains formal slogans as a reflection of the level of standardization in the interpretation of symbols and meanings aimed at educating the public. These errors are found in a number of public spaces in Pangkalpinang City. This study aimed to describe the linguistic aspects of writing slogans in the public space as well as how to socialize about the delivery of symbols and meanings in the writing. This study also looked at how the purpose of informative education through symbols and meanings of the writing in the socialization media was interpreted by the people of Pangkalpinang. So that there are two formulations of the problem that will be elaborated in this study, namely: (1) How is the distribution of slogans in public spaces indicated to violate linguistic values ​​?; (2) How is the dissemination of symbols and meanings contained in the slogans conveyed educatively to the public? The theory used to carry out this research is the socio-phonological theory, ambiguity, and sociology of communication from Hebert Mead about symbolic interactionism. The method used was descriptive qualitative using data collection techniques, namely full observation and interviews. This research showed that there are no concepts that are misleading in conveying symbols and meanings contained in slogans in public spaces that should be formally informal because the Pangkalpinang community translates phonemes into orthographical (writing).


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar

This study explores Habermas’s work in terms of the relevance of his theory of the public sphere to the politics and poetics of the Arab oral tradition and its pedagogical practices. In what ways and forms does Arab heritage inform a public sphere of resistance or dissent? How does Habermas’s notion of the public space help or hinder a better understanding of the Arab oral tradition within the sociopolitical and educational landscape of the Arabic-speaking world? This study also explores the pedagogical implications of teaching Arab orality within the context of the public sphere as a contested site that informs a mode of resistance against social inequality and sociopolitical exclusions.


Author(s):  
OLEKSANDR STEGNII

The paper analyses specific features of sociological data circulation in a public space during an election campaign. The basic components of this kind of space with regard to sociological research are political actors (who put themselves up for the election), voters and agents. The latter refer to professional groups whose corporate interests are directly related to the impact on the election process. Sociologists can also be seen as agents of the electoral process when experts in the field of electoral sociology are becoming intermingled with manipulators without a proper professional background and publications in this field. In a public space where an electoral race is unfolding, empirical sociological research becomes the main form of obtaining sociological knowledge, and it is primarily conducted to measure approval ratings. Electoral research serves as an example of combining the theoretical and empirical components of sociological knowledge, as well as its professional and public dimensions. Provided that sociologists meet all the professional requirements, electoral research can be used as a good tool for evaluating the trustworthiness of results reflecting the people’s expression of will. Being producers of sociological knowledge, sociologists act in two different capacities during an election campaign: as analysts and as pollsters. Therefore, it is essential that the duties and areas of responsibility for professional sociologists should be separated from those of pollsters. Another thing that needs to be noted is the negative influence that political strategists exert on the trustworthiness of survey findings which are going to be released to the public. Using the case of approval ratings as an illustration, the author analyses the most common techniques aimed at misrepresenting and distorting sociological data in the public space. Particular attention is given to the markers that can detect bogus polling companies, systemic violations during the research process and data falsification.


Author(s):  
Natalia Kostenko

The subject matter of research interest here is the movement of sociological reflection concerning the interplay of public and private realms in social, political and individual life. The focus is on the boundary constructs embodying publicity, which are, first of all, classical models of the space of appearance for free citizens of the polis (H. Arendt) and the public sphere organised by communicative rationality (Ju. Habermas). Alternative patterns are present in modern ideas pertaining to the significance of biological component in public space in the context of biopolitics (M. Foucault), “inclusive exclusion of bare life” (G. Agamben), as well as performativity of corporeal and linguistic experience related to the right to participate in civil acts such as popular assembly (J. Butler), where the established distinctions between the public and the private are levelled, and the interrelationship of these two realms becomes reconfigured. Once the new media have come into play, both the structure and nature of the public sphere becomes modified. What assumes a decisive role is people’s physical interaction with online communication gadgets, which instantly connect information networks along various trajectories. However, the rapid development of information technology produces particular risks related to the control of communications industry, leaving both public and private realms unprotected and deforming them. This also urges us to rethink the issue of congruence of the two ideas such as transparency of societies and security.


2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 15-19
Author(s):  
Jason Blum

Recently, theology has garnered renewed attention in the academy. For various reasons, both theologians and some religious studies scholars have argued that theology deserves to be brought into greater dialogue with other disciplines, and some have even argued that theology ought to be taught in the public university. There are interesting arguments to be made that theology is more similar to other disciplines than might initially be supposed, and even that it is at the cutting edge of certain recent developments in scholarship more broadly. There are also, however, noteworthy barriers to incorporating theology more fully into the academy, and these may present significant challenges to inter-disciplinary dialogue and the possibility of productive exchange between theology and other areas of research.


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