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Dislocations: Reassessing Ligeti’s Many Worlds in the 21st Century

University of Chicago, March 6-8 2018

Sound Installation
March 5–8 Ligeti in Context: The Witch’s Kitchen at the WDR Electronic Studio Logan Stairwell
Die Hexenküche (The Witch’s Kitchen) was the colloquial nickname for the electronic music studio at the
WDR radio station in Cologne, called as such by conservative critics and skeptical audiences who questioned
its aesthetic relevance. For composers such as Ligeti, however, the WDR studio was a utopia for creating
truly avant-garde music. This installation reimagines the compelling and strange electronic sounds of the
studio. Come immerse yourself in the soundscape of mid-century modernism.

Concert
March 6 Tuesday Evening (7:30p – 10:00p) Logan Performance Hall
Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Ligeti’s Ètudes and Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata. (NB: Aimard also
gives lecture-demonstration on Monday March 5, 4:30 p.m., Logan Center, Penthouse 901)

Conference
March 7 Wednesday Morning Panel (9:30a – 12:00p) Fulton
Technocratic Modernism and the Aesthetics of Failure
9:30 – 10:00 Jennifer Iverson (University of Chicago) and Samuel Pluta (University of Chicago)
“Electro-acoustic Translations and the Aesthetics of Failure”

10:00 – 10:30 Naomi Woo (University of Cambridge) *needs piano*

“The Practice of Failure in Ligeti’s Touches Bloquées”
short break
10:45 – 11:15 Joseph Cadagin (Stanford University)
“Piecing Together Ligeti’s Unfinished Alice in Wonderland”

11:15 – 11:45 Joshua Banks Mailman (Columbia University)

“The Legacy of Ligeti's Unsung Innovation: Textural Incline of Pitch (TIP)”

Wednesday Lunch (12:00p – 1:30p) catered by Chicago Curry House Fulton lobby
Wednesday Demo Lectures (1:30p – 3:00p) Fulton
Theorizing Playing, Self and Other

(1:30 – 3:00) “On the Viola Sonata (1991-94)”

Seth Brodsky (University of Chicago) with Doyle Armbrust (Spektral Quartet)

afternoon coffee break (3:00p – 3:30p) Fulton lobby

Wednesday Afternoon Keynote (3:30p – 5:00p) Fulton
Read my Désordre! Ligeti Against the Historicists
Amy Bauer (U of C Irvine)

Wednesday Dinner (5:30p – 7:30p) for conference participants La Petite Folie

Evening Performance
Wednesday (8:00p – 10:00p) Logan Penthouse 901
Transylvania Transit – A Musical Journey through Modernism's Mirror
New Budapest Orpheum Society Ensemble
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Artistic Director, Philip V. Bohlman (University of Chicago)

The New Budapest Orpheum Society, the Jewish cabaret and ensemble-in-residence for the Humanities
Division, journeys to the Transylvanian world in which György Ligeti grew up and which he explored in
his early career as a Romanian ethnomusicologist of Hungarian-Jewish heritage. In the course of the
evening the ensemble will travel through the shtetls to the urban ghettos of the Carpathians, searching
out the confluence of post-Shoah Polish cabaret with Hebrew songs in the new settlements of modern
Israel. Passing through modernism's mirror, as did Ligeti in his early years, listeners will experience
twentieth-century music in new and unexpected ways.

Sponsored by the Division of the Humanities, the Franke Institute, the Logan Center, the University of
Chicago Arts Council, the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, and the Department
of Music.

Conference
March 8 Thursday Morning Panel (9:30a – 12:00p) Fulton
Composing Multiplicity: Cycles, Distortion, and Dissonance in the Late Piano Works
9:30 – 10:00 Clifton Callender (Florida State Uuniversity)
“Between the Hands: Interharmony and Combinatorial Tonality in the Études and
Beyond”

10:00 – 10:30 Maxwell Silva (University of Chicago)

“Uncanny Disintegration, Playful Flux: Hearing Attenuated Tonality in
Ligeti's Fanfares”
short break
10:45 – 11:15 Sara Bakker (Utah State University)
“What Makes a Study? Perspectives from Ligeti and Nancarrow”

11:15 – 11:45 Imri Talgam (The Graduate Center at CUNY) *needs piano*
“A Perception-Based Strategy for the Performance of Rhythmic Dissonance in Ligeti's
Polymetric Ètudes”

Thursday Lunch (12:00p – 1:30p) catered by Cedars Mediterranean Fulton lobby

Thursday Afternoon Panel (2:00p – 4:30p) Classics 110
From Transylvania to the Global Stage: Research, Teaching, and Tempering

2:00 – 2:30 Bianca Țiplea Temeș (Gh. Dima Music Academy Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
“Haunting Soundscapes of Transylvania: Ligeti’s Research Stay at the Folklore Institute
in Bucharest”

2:30 – 3:00 Anthony Cheung (University of Chicago)

“Undercurrents and Overtones: Strangeness, Denaturing, and the Microtonal
Conspiracies of Ligeti and His Students”

afternoon coffee break (3:00p – 3:30p) Classics 110 lobby

3:30 – 4:00 Noah Kahrs (Eastman School of Music)

“Imperfect Representations of Non-Tempered Intonation in Ligeti's Late Piano
Writing”
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4:00 – 4:30 Benjamin Levy (University of California Santa Barbara)

“Sound Worlds Colliding: Microtones and Macropolitics in the Music of Ligeti and
Vivier”

Thursday Dinner (5:00p – 7:00p) on your own

Evening Film Screening

Thursday (7:30p – 10:30p) Logan Screening Room 201

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick, 2 h 29 min)

Pre-film talk: Berthold Hoeckner (University of Chicago)

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Conference Locations

Fulton Recital Hall

4th floor of Goodspeed Hall (Department of Music)
1010 E 59th St. 60637 = corner of 59th and Ellis, enter inside the Quad
https://maps.uchicago.edu/?location=Goodspeed+Hall

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts

incl. Performance Hall on 1st floor, Screening Room 201, and Penthouse 901
915 E 60th St. 60637
https://maps.uchicago.edu/?location=Reva+and+David+Logan+Center+for+the+Arts

Classics
adjacent to Goodspeed Hall—you don’t even have to walk outside
1010 E 59th St. 60637
https://maps.uchicago.edu/?location=Classics+Building

Hyatt Place Chicago South

5225 S. Harper Ave 60615 (shuttle to/from University is provided, ask at the front desk)
https://chicagosouthuniversity.place.hyatt.com/en/hotel/our-hotel/map-and-
directions.html?icamp=propMapDirections

La Petite Folie
1504 E 55th St. 60615 (we’ll likely take Ubers and Lyfts together)
http://www.lapetitefolie.com/findus.html

Bus routes that serve Hyde Park and campus:

CTA 171 and 172:
http://www.transitchicago.com/bus/171/
http://www.transitchicago.com/bus/172/
University of Chicago shuttles:
http://uchicago.transloc.com