Music & aesthetics
Music & Aesthetics is a project that was founded in 1995 by Ludwig Holtmeier , Richard Klein, Eckehard Kiem and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf .
aims
The project pursues the following goals:
- Development and dissemination of aesthetic reflection in and about music;
- Research into the relationship between music and cultural or social sciences, especially philosophy ;
- Work on a musical analysis, especially the latest music;
- Building a musical aesthetic that includes music analysis, historical hermeneutics and aesthetic criticism;
- Critical analysis of the relationship between theoretical musical speech and musical practice;
- Communication of musical aesthetics with the "current" discourses of cultural and social sciences and philosophy, while maintaining the respective professional independence and professional standards.
This is done with
- the Society for Music and Aesthetics, founded in 1995,
- the magazine Musik & Ästhetik, published by Klett-Cotta since 1997 ,
- the Institute for Music and Aesthetics, founded in 2012,
- Events,
- Book publications.
Conception
The Society for Music and Aesthetics has been organizing events since 1996. From 1998 to 2006 she cooperated with the bludenzer days of contemporary music. In cooperation with her, the English book series New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century has been published since 2002 (edited by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf , Frank Cox and Wolfram Schurig ), so far 8 volumes. Eckehard Kiem, Richard Klein and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf were from 1998 to 2001 "scientific advisors" in the production of the "Stuttgarter Ring" at the Stuttgart State Opera . Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf and Johannes Menke have been publishing the sinefonia series of studies at Wolke Verlag since 2006.
The magazine Musik & Ästhetik is published by Ludwig Holtmeier, Richard Klein and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf. So far she has published over 650 articles in a wide variety of fields. It is supported by well-known personalities from international musical and cultural life and cooperates with numerous employees all over the world. From 2004 to 2007 she was supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
In 2012 the Institute for Music and Aesthetics was founded. His focus areas are: music philosophy, autonomous music criticism, empirical-hermeneutic sociology of music, contemporary music, music theater, media work and practical expertise. It is headed by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf and Peter Mixture, Richard Klein is the scientific director.
Symposia of the Society for Music and Aesthetics
- Think with your ears. Adorno's Philosophy of Music, Horben 1996.
- Music in Time - Time in Music, Freiburg 1998.
- Polyphony & Complexity, Bludenz 1998.
- Wagner's Ring as a deconstruction of modernity, Stuttgart State Opera 1999
- Aspects of the Harmonics of New Music, Bludenz 2000.
- The basics of contemporary composing, Stuttgart 2002.
- Morphology in New Music, Bludenz 2002.
- Criticism - phenomenality - art. On the 100th birthday of Theodor W. Adorno, Freiburg 2003.
- Critical composing, Stuttgart 2004.
- Bringing It All Back Home. On the critical content of Bob Dylan's work, Frankfurt a. M. 2006.
- Music & Present 2007, Leipzig 2007
- Music & Present 2008, Leipzig 2008
- Music & Present 2009, Leipzig 2009
- Music & Present 2010, Leipzig 2010
Book publications
- Richard Klein, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (ed.): Thinking with your ears. Adorno's philosophy of music. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-28978-0 .
- Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (Ed.): Richard Wagner. Modernist designer. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-608-91979-1 .
- Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (Ed.): Myth Cage. Wolke, Hofheim 1999, ISBN 3-923997-87-6 .
- Richard Klein, Eckehard Kiem, Wolfram Ette (eds.): Music in time - time in music. Velbrück, Weilerswist 2000, ISBN 3-934730-27-2 .
- Richard Klein in collaboration with the Stuttgart State Opera (ed.): Scars of the total work of art. Wagner's »Ring des Nibelungen«. Fink, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7705-3565-0 .
- Eckehard Kiem, Ludwig Holtmeier (ed.): Richard Wagner and his time. Laaber, Laaber 2003, ISBN 3-921518-95-4 .
- Wolfram Ette, Günter Figal, Richard Klein, Günter Peters (eds.): Adorno im Widerstreit. To the presence of his thinking. Alber, Freiburg 2004, ISBN 3-495-48131-1 .
- Richard Klein: Bob Dylan: My Name It is Nothin '. Not pop, not art. Lukas, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-936872-45-7 .
- Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf: Critical Theory of Music. Velbrück, Weilerswist 2006, ISBN 3-938808-04-7 .
- Axel Honneth, Peter Kemper, Richard Klein (Eds.): Bob Dylan. A congress. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-12507-6 .
- Richard Klein, Johann Kreuzer, Stefan Müller-Doohm (eds.): Adorno - manual. Life - work - effect. Metzler, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-476-02254-7 .
- Johanna Dombois, Richard Klein: Richard Wagner and his media. For a critical practice in music theater. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-608-94740-3 .
New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century
The English-language series comprises eight volumes so far, Hofheim (Wolke):
- Polyphony & Complexity, 2002.
- Musical Morphology, 2004.
- The Foundations of Contemporary Composing, 2004.
- Electronics in New Music, 2006.
- Critical Composition Today, 2006.
- Facets of the Second Modernity, 2008.
- Klaus Huber. From time to time. The Complete œuvre. Conversations with Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, 2010.
- Musical Material Today, 2012.