Political Ontologies of Music: Rethinking the Relationship between Music and Politics in the Twenty-First Century

ONTOMUSIC provides an innovative and interdisciplinary theoretical framework to analyse the political and ethical dimensions of contemporary art music in the twenty-first century. It explores the relationship between composers’ ethical concerns, political thought and ontological assumptions about music. These ontological assumptions are defined as personal or collective assertions about the nature and means of music and sound, which reveal our beliefs on what music is as well as what music can do or accomplish. ONTOMUSIC argues that integrating composers’ ontological assumptions about music into the exploration of their political or ethical commitments makes possible the study of a broader range of living composers and their views about ethical issues such as social justice, human rights and the environment.

Id1590
Grant Value300000
Commencement Date / Completion Date1 April 2021 - 31 March 2024
Contributors Dr Luis Velasco-Pufleau (Principle Investigator)
Funders [164] Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (European Commission)
URIhttps://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101027828
Keywordsontological assumptions, sound, sociotechnical imaginaries, politics, affect, music, silence, sonic archives, aural experiences, sound ecology, sound activism
Publications Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (2021). Music, Noise and Conflict: Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Acoustic Agency and Ontological Assumptions about Sound. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 146(2), pp. 501-508. Cambridge University Press 10.1017/rma.2021.18
Egli, Florian; Pearce, BinBin; Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (8 December 2021). So schaffen wir eine echte Brücke zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. In: Higgs. Online: Scitec-Media GmbH
Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (23 June 2022). Cartographies of Meaning: Can musicians stand for Ukraine without participating in propaganda? VAN Magazine VAN Verlag
Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (2022). La musique est-elle une arme de propagande comme les autres ? Réflexions sur l’écriture d’un texte d’opinion critique en contexte de guerre. Revue musicale OICRM, 9(1), pp. 181-193. Observatoire interdisciplinaire de création et recherche en musique (OICRM) 10.7202/1090521ar
Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (2022). Musique et solidarité avec l’Ukraine : Comment les musiciens peuvent-ils s’opposer à la guerre sans devenir un instrument des dispositifs de propagande ? Music, Sound and Conflict OpenEdition 10.58079/rny1
Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (25 May 2023). Sounding Out Absent Bodies: Ghost Harmonies, Resonances and Remembering in Marisol Jiménez’s XLIII Memoriam Vivere (Unpublished). In: The Aesthetics of Absence in Music of the Twenty-First Century. Oslo. 25-26 May 2023.
Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (13 April 2023). Conflits armés contemporains, systèmes de notation et écologie documentale : penser à travers low intensity conflicts de Franck Leibovici (Unpublished). In: SICM 2023 – Le conflit dans la création musicale contemporaine : Violences, idéologies, territoires, hybridations. Paris. 13-14 April 2023.
Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (13 November 2022). Music and Human Rights: Exploring New Relationships between Music and Politics in the Twenty-First Century (Unpublished). In: 2022 AMS-SEM-SMT Joint Annual Meeting. New Orleans. 10-13 November 2022.
Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (23 March 2023). Sonic Agencies, Hybrid Improvised Sounds and the Politics of Collective Memory in the Work of Marisol Jiménez (Unpublished). In: Music Discourses after 1970. Bern. 23-25 March 2023.
Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (23 August 2022). Sounds, Echoes and Silences in Listening Experiences of Survivors of the Bataclan Terrorist Attack in Paris (Unpublished). In: 21st Quinquennial IMS Congress. Athens. 22-26 August 2022.
Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (8 July 2022). Exploring Trauma and Recovery through Listening Experiences of Survivors of the Bataclan Terrorist Attack in Paris: On the (Co-)Construction of Knowledge and Ethical Responsibility of Bearing Witness in Music Research (Unpublished). In: Music/Sound Through the Lens of Trauma: Methodology, Theory and History. Utrecht. 7-8 July 2022.
Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (6 October 2021). Only fear grew inside my body’: Ethics, femicide and compositional strategies in Hilda Paredes’ La tierra de la miel (Unpublished). In: Sounding Out Musical Ethics. London. 6 October 2021.
Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (8 September 2021). Did you say ‘music’? Exploring the relationship between narratives on musicology and ontological assumptions of music (Unpublished). In: Narrating musicology. Reviewing the history/histories of musicology. Bern. 5-8 September 2021.
Velasco Pufleau, Luis (2023). Listening is Action: A Soundwalk with Hildegard Westerkamp. Performance Philosophy, 8(1), pp. 86-100. 10.21476/PP.2023.81430
Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (2023). Listening is action : une promenade sonore avec Hildegard Westerkamp. Music, Sound and Conflict OpenEdition 10.58079/vf09
Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (18 January 2024). A Struggle for Memory: Composer Hèctor Parra on his new opera "Justice". VAN Magazine VAN Verlag
Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (2024). Une lutte pour la mémoire : entretien avec Hèctor Parra à propos de son opéra Justice. Music, Sound and Conflict OpenEdition 10.58079/vmet

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