Programme  

Arrival / registration / coffee 10.30 - 11.00

Topic 1:

Audiences for contemporary music and arts, 11.00 - 12.30

Sarah Boiling (chair), Interim Chief Executive, Audiences London

Edward Venning, Marketing & Communications Director, Southbank Centre

Johnny Gibson, Head of Marketing, Sound And Music

James Doeser, ACE research – Arts audiences: insight

Alastair Cameron, Arnolfini, Bristol

What does the latest research tell us about audiences for music and sound? What are the comparisons with audiences for other contemporary arts, especially visual arts and moving image? What trends are anticipated in the current and coming financial climate? How can venues develop their own research tools? How can audience research inform and develop artistic programming?

Lunch 12.30-13.30  

Louis Andriessen Interview, 13.00-13.20  

Topic 2:

The Best for Less? Making resources go further, 13.30 - 14.45

Heather Maitland (chair), Arts Consultant, Author of 'A Guide to Audience Development'

Thorbjørn Hansen, Wundergrund/SNYK, Copenhagen

Vanessa Reed, PRS for Music Foundation

Ben Lane, ACE Music

Alastair Cameron, Arnolfini

According to Arts and Business projections, between £500m to £900m will be slashed from arts organisations’ budgets in the coming months.  We have to work together to make resources stretch further so the quality and ambition of our work doesn’t suffer.  But in the past, consortium models have formed around pots of additional funding.  Little chance of that now!  So what are the most effective ways of collaborating in the current economic climate?  And how do we find the right partners?

Explore models for co-commissioning and co-producing from the perspectives of creators, producers, presenters and funders.  Then meet potential partners with resources or great ideas they want to share.  This could be the start of something interesting…

Break 14.45 - 15.15

Tea/coffee to be provided

Topic 3:

Exposition of Music – Music and Performance in a Visual Culture, 15.15 - 17.15

Limor Tomer, Whitney Museum, New York

Sandra Naumann, See This Sound exhibition curator, Linz

John Kieffer, Sound and Music

Richard Bernas, Conductor and Music Consultant to Tate Modern

Jenny Walshe, composer

Janek Schaefer, sound artist

Jim Aitchison, composer

Rebecca Shatwell, AV Festival

What can galleries and music promoters learn from each other about presenting live music events? What examples are there of successful partnerships? What is the experience of artists / musicians / composers who work in both fields?

18.30 - 19.00  pre-concert talk

19.30 London Sinfonietta / Cristina Zavalloni / Synergy Vocals / David Atherton (cond) perform Louis Andriessen’s Anais Nin (UK premiere) and De Staat

Dutch composer Louis Andriessen’s music combines unusual orchestral instrumentations, dissonance and amplification with influences from jazz to minimalism.

Anais Nin, co-commissioned by the London Sinfonietta, is a ‘monodrama opera’ for Christina Zavalloni, Andriessen’s long-time muse, based on texts by the avant-garde novelist Anais Nin, and incorporates the composer’s debut as film-maker. De Staat is Andriessen’s astounding setting of – and musical commentary on – Plato’s writing on music and politics from The Republic.

Tickets for this performance should be booked separately through the Southbank Centre.

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For further information about participating and attending, contact Julia Haferkorn and Ed McKeon atsymposium@thirdear.co.uk

Thank you for reading,

 
Julia Haferkorn, Kate Halsall and Ed McKeon