EVENT

14.00 welcome and introduction
14.05 keynote reading Jacqueline Oskamp / 'The discovery of the Universe'
Technology and associated expectations and utopias as an injection of creativity

14.30 performance Xioa He

14.40 keynote reading Pieter Verstraete / 'Vocal Extensions'
Disembodied Voices in Contemporary Music Theatre and Performance

15.00 discussion with Jacqueline Oskamp en Pieter Verstraete
- moderation - Josephine Bosma
- guests - Christian Kesten, Sjaron Minailo, Jeroen Groenewegen

16.00 end of debate

EXTENDED PROGRAM:
17.00 - 18.00 performance Alex Nowitz (de)

20.00 - 21.00 short film program curated by Martijn van Boven (nl)

22.00 - 03.00 Late Night Performance Event (LNPE) with Frieder Butzman (de), Charlemagne Palestine (us),
Stephanie Pan (us),Gerard herman (be) , Pete Um (uk), EARR ensemble (div)
attention: the LNPE will take place in DE PLAYER IV, Tolhuisstraat 107 BG, Rotterdam.

ABOUT:
Pieter Verstraete (be) is a Lecturer in the Drama Department of the University of Exeter. He was previously researching at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. In 2009, he completed a PhD dissertation, entitled The Frequency of Imagination: Auditory Distress and Aurality in Contemporary Music Theatre. His publications include articles on music theatre, opera, installation art and interactive dance.
He has co-edited a book, entitled Inside Knowledge (CSP), and published chapters in books, such as Performing the Matrix (Epodium), Sonic Mediations (CSP) and Cathy Berberian: Matchless Mistress of Vocal Art (forthcoming with AUP).

Jacqueline Oskamp (nl) publishes since 1989 about music (De Groene Amsterdammer, de Volkskrant and Vrij Netherland). In 2003 a collection of interviews with Dutch composers, entitled 'Simply Radical - is there such a thing as Dutch music?' was published. In her recent book, 'Onder Stroom' (Ambo, 2011) Oskamp outlines the history of electronic music in the Netherlands; an anarchic mess of professional and private studios occupied by a handful of flamboyant talents. A utopian belief in the art colors the rise of electronic music. Experimental composers recognize that technology is the perfect tool to postwar life feeling: rationally and literally packed with unprecedented opportunities. In six colorful portraits of pioneers - including Bruynèl Ton, Dick Raaijmakers and Michel Waisvisz - describes Jacqueline Oskamp the developments in electronic music; the musical avant-garde of the second half of the twentieth century.

Josephine Bosma (nl) lives and works in Amsterdam. From an art background, she is a journalist and author in the fields of art, new media and media theory, focusing on art, sound and performance on the internet, as well as cyberfeminism and media politics.
From 1991-1998, she worked for the radio (Radio Patapoe, VPRO). Bosma organized the radio section of the next5minutes mediafestival 2 and 3, and was editor of the streaming media sections of the nettime book ReadMe and the n5m3 workbook.
Recently she published her book 'Nettitudes: Le's talk Netar' at NAI Publishers. which contains five essays about art and new media.

Christian Kesten (de) is a nowadays composer. His interest lies in the 'space in-between': between music and theatre, music and language, between music and the visual arts. His pieces work with the space which opens up between the sound of language and the parallel, non-illustrative action (-cycling 1990; des Kleinen Übergewicht 1995, 45 seconds 2006). One of the pieces he will do is zunge lösen [releasing tongue] (solo version 1999/ ensemble version 2001/ trio version 2002) - for tongue and breath - works with the root of articulation and is both a work for voice and a scenic composition, music-theatre in a compact form.

Minailo Sharon (is) studied for director at the theater academy in Israel and continued to study theater studies and musicology in Amsterdam. With a number of other students he founded in 2000 the company Het Verdriet van de Zeedijk with which he made representations till 2006. In 2005, together with Anat Spiegel, Minailo made the 'MTV Opera' Khadish, which was an international success. Since then, he is mainly involved in opera, on which he has a refreshing point of view. In 2007 he founded Foundation Studio Minailo, focussing on musical theater and opera and working together with diverse artists, singers and composers. Minailo's mission is to show lovers of music and theater that opera is not as inaccessible as many think.

Jeroen Groenewegen (nl) does research on contemporary Chinese music. He wrote articles entitled 'Screaming and crying androids: voice and presence in Chinese popular music' and 'Explosive acts: Beijing's Punk Rock Scene in the Postmodern World of 2007'. He became sinologist with a thesis on the Beijing based rock band Tongue and he is just about to finish his Ph.D. with the thesis, The Performance of Identity in Chinese Popular Music, at Leiden University, the Netherlands, in which he compares the Chinese experimental electrofolk artist Xiao He with the pop star Faye Wong and the rock band Second Hand Rose. He concentrates thereby on, cultural identity, classification, gender, theatricality, creativity.

Xiao He will give a short performance in the debate program.