Emptiness, silence and the experience of waiting

Friday, 03. December 2021 um 09:47 Uhr

From 21.11. to 26.11.2021 the German-French Autumn School took place again in Bayonne, Basque Country. The Center for World Music was represented as co-organizer and with some contributions.

This year's Autumn School dealt with the topic of "Anthropology of Absence", referring to experiences of emptiness, silence and insecurity, which are recorded and discussed in an interdisciplinary way, especially in their scientific-theoretical dimension with reference to music. In this context, the particular social efficacy of experiences of absence and strategies of withdrawal were inquired into. The Fall School also enabled scholars from the humanities and social sciences to engage in a dialogue with artists and representatives of cultural institutions.


Organizers

The organizers are the Center for World Music, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) with the Basque Anthropological Research Institute on Music, Emotion and Human Societies (ARI Institute), the University of Cologne, the Franco-German University/Université franco-allemande and the Centre Georg Simmel.

Sponsors

The Fall School is sponsored by the Université franco-allemande/German-French University.  


Organizers

  •     Prof. Dr. Denis Laborde, CNRS -EHESS, Institute ARI, Bayonne
  •     Prof. Dr. Raimund Vogels, Center for World Music, Hildesheim
  •     JProf. Dr. Eckehard Pistrick, IfEM, University of Cologne
  •     Dr. Michael Fuhr, Center for World Music, Hildesheim

Contributions from the Center for World Music

In the program the Festschrift "Diggin' Up Music" from the Center for World Music was presented. In the contribution "Les arènes de l'invisibilité dans l'industrie musicale" Samuel Mund discussed with the author and ethnomusicologist Sandrine Lecoz from EHESS. He also shared his experience of working on the CWM's ethnomusicological collections in his talk "What are we waiting for? The silence of music objects in archives and museums". Dr. Nepomuk Riva spoke on the dimensions of meditative silence in the prayers of the Taizé Community in his paper "Getting Quiet Inside - Making a Connection - Enduring Silence."
Further information

The Fall School is held annually. As soon as contributions can be submitted for the 2022 edition, you will find information here

 

 

Programme

The Sounding Absences of the Ethnographic Field - Side Effects or Serious Objects of Study?
JProf. Eckehard PISTRICK, Musikethnologie, Universität zu Köln

Wenn die Seele eins wird mit dem Universum -  Erfahrungen aus der Sahara, Wie sich der Lebensraum der Kel Tamasheq in der Musik der Tuareg reflektiert
Alhousseini Anivolla & Sandra van Edig, Bonn, Diskutant: Dr. Lukas Bugiel, Musikpädagogik,vHumanwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Post-Doc, Universität zu Köln

Between Boredom and Relief: Some Elements for an Ethnography of Asylum Seekers' Waiting
Dr. Carolina KOBELINSKY, Anthropologie, Chargée de Recherche CNRS, Laboratoire d‘Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparée (LESC), Université Nanterre

Bracelet électronique, détention à domicile, détention
Dr. Mathias DAMBUYANT, Chargé de recherche pour le Ministère de la Justice, IIAC, CNRS-EHESS, Paris. Discutant: Dr. Carolina KOBELINSKY, Anthropologie, Chargée de Recherche au CNRS, Laboratoire d‘Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparée (LESC), Université Nanterre

Abd al-Halim's Bicycle: A Postcolonial Nocturne
Prof. Martin STOKES, Ethnomusicology, King’s College, University of London

A Sonic Manual to War Imagery from the Middle East
Dr. Clara WENZ, Musikethnologie, Post-Doc, Universität Würzburg. Diskutant: Prof. Martin STOKES, Ethnomusicology, King's College London

Les arènes de l’invisibilité dans l’industrie musicale
Sandrine LECOZ, EHESS, Institut ARI – Bayonne. Discutant : Samuel MUND, Musikethnologie, Center for World Music, Universität Hildesheim

Absence, nostalgie et création: la poésie et la chanson arabe
Dr. Corinne FORTIER, Chargée de Recherche CNRS, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, Collège de France, Paris. Diskutant: Sandrine LECOZ, EHESS Paris – Institut ARI, Bayonne

A Space between a Body in a Trauma – Voicing, Silence and Subjectivity in Camille Noment's Rapture
Dr. Iris BLAKE, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, Discussant: Alaia CACHENAUT, EHESS Paris – Institut ARI, Bayonne.

Where have all the dead gone? Reflections on absence, grief and politics
Dr. Antonio PUSCEDDU, Anthropologie, Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA), Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal, CRIA

Musique au balcon: sociabilités musiciennes en temps de pandémie
Prof. Denis LABORDE, Anthropologue, Directeur de Recherche CNRS & Directeur d’études EHESS, Institut ARI – UMR Passages

Wie laut ist Musik?
Dr. Lukas BUGIEL, Musikpädagogik, Universität zu Köln, Diskutantin: Dr. Alicia VOGT, Anthropologie, EHESS - Universität Frankfurt/Main - Institut ARI, Bayonne

Innerlich zur Ruhe kommen – eine Verbindung herstellen – das Schweigen aushalten. Die Dimensionen der meditativen Stille bei den Gebeten der Communauté de Taizé
Dr. Nepomuk RIVA, Musikethnologie, Universität Hildesheim, Diskutantin: Dr. Clara WENZ, Musikethnologie, Universität Würzburg

Worauf warten wir noch? Das Schweigen der Musikobjekte in Archiven und Museen
Samuel MUND, Musikethnologie, Center for World Music, Universität Hildesheim, Diskutant: Dr. Mathias DAMBUYANT, Chargé de recherche pour le Ministère de la Justice, IIAC, CNRS-EHESS, Paris

Déjouer l’absence par la danse en ligne: le cas des CoviDantza
Alaia CACHENAUT, EHESS Paris, Institut ARI – CNRS, Bayonne, Discutant : Dr. Iris BLAKE, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA

Les musiciens de Orpheus XXI en temps de pandémie
Dr. Alicia VOGT, Anthropologie, EHESS - Universität Frankfurt/Main - Institut ARI, Bayonne, Discutante: Dr. Corinne FORTIER, Anthropologie, Chargée de Recherche CNRS, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, Collège de France, Paris

Artistic Contributions

Film screenings with artist talks, moderation: Denis Laborde & Eckehard Pistrick

Aztarnak I – Traces 1, de Paula Olaz, les Demandeurs d’asile du CADA (Bayonne) et Jon Gaztambide (Saint-Sébastien) (Haizebegi, 2021, 12 min.), & Silence, de Pat Collins, (Irlande – Allemagne, 2012, 82 min.), & Centro di Permanenza Temporanea (2007), by Adrian Paci (6 min.)

Lecture & Discussion

States of in-between: presence, silence, voice. An encounter with Ismet Prcic and his novel “Shards