IAML News
IAML 2015 Congress in New York: Congress website is now up and registration is open. Program has also been posted.
From IAML’s National Branches
IAML Australia: Call For Papers: "Portals and Pathways : Building music connections"
IAML Australia Conference 2015 (1-2 October 2015, Sydney)
Articles of Interest
- The Cobweb: Can the Internet be archived?
Jill Lepore, The New Yorker
"No one believes any longer, if anyone ever did, that “if it’s on the Web it must be true,” but a lot of people do believe that if it’s on the Web it will stay on the Web. Chances are, though, that it actually won’t." - Les risques auditifs pour les musiciens d'orchestre
France musique
"Ecouter la musique au casque ou en boîte de nuit n'est pas le seul facteur de risque auditif, les musiciens d'orchestre peuvent eux aussi en subir les conséquences. Quels sont les moyens de préventions?" - Manna for fans: the history of the hidden track in music
Jude Rogers, The Guardian
"From inner groove loops to absurd backmasking, artists have long found ways to embed secret songs, cryptic writings and coded messages in their albums." - Quelle est la santé du secteur des partitions de musique?
France musique
"Secteur méconnu, le marché de l'édition musicale des partitions rencontre les mêmes difficultés que ceux du livre ou de la musique enregistrée. A l'ère de la transition vers le tout numérique, comment se porte ce secteur en France? Les usages des musiciens amateurs ont-ils changé?"
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Matthias Claudius (1740 – 1815) Matthias Claudius was a German poet who died 200 years ago this month. Many of us know his poem "Der Tod und das Mädchen" (Death and the Maiden) through its musical setting by Franz Schubert. Perhaps less well known outside of Germany is the famous poem "Der Mond ist aufgegangen" (The Moon has Risen). It was set to music and is a standard in German church hymnals. A biography about Claudius was published in 2011 (Annelen Kranefuss: Matthias Claudius. Eine Biographie) and a new one appeared just last year (Martin Geck: Matthias Claudius. Biographie eines Unzeitgemäßen).
This four-part version was set by Max Reger:
And here is an interpretation by German rock star Herbert Grönemeyer:
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Free Book
Crank Up the Phonograph: Who We Are and Where We Came from in Early Sound Recordings by Eric Byron
Read and download here
Conferences
- South African Society For Research in Music’s Ninth Annual Congress in Cape Town, South Africa
Conference website - SOIMA 2015 Conference (Sound and Image Collections Conservation)
Second Call for Contributions - What do we lose when we lose a library? A collaboration of the University of Leuven, Goethe-Institut Brüssel & British Council Brussels
Call for papers
Friday Fun
Watch a human musician and his robots improvise together
Rachel Feltman, Washington Post
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