CFP: Musical Creativities, Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikpädagogik, Gießen, 11-12 Jul 2025

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This international conference explores phenomena, discourses, and practices of musical creativity. On the one hand, current developments in AI technology and on the other hand, a growing post-humanist critique of the subject call for a re-evaluation of the concept of creativity. Through an explorative concept with presentations, round tables, and lecture performances, the conference aims to provide impulses for critical, interdisciplinary research on the topics of AI, music, and creativity.

In three sections, we will address both theoretical questions of creativity and specific music-related case studies:
• The first section, Creativity Theories in Interdisciplinary Dialogue, is dedicated to the phenomenon of musical creativity from the perspectives of the individual disciplines of music psychology, music philosophy, and music sociology as well as ethnomusicology. Possible incompatibilities between these approaches should not be resolved into a consensus, but should be understood as a constructive potential: at best, they can contribute to a critical development of the respective concepts of creativity.
• In the second section, Historicity of the Creative, a historical-critical perspective is adopted. The aim is to understand creativity as a discourse and to ask, for example, to what extent creativity narratives have contributed or continue to contribute to the stabilisation and institutionalisation of cultural hegemonies.
• The third section, Co-creativity in Musical Practice, understands creativity as a negotiation process. Insights will be given by composers and musicians as well as musicologists who conduct artistic or academic research into co-creative processes.

Our financing plan foresees covering the costs of travel, accommodation and catering. We expect to be able to give a final confirmation on this by Spring 2025.

We welcome proposals for a 20-minute talk followed by a discussion, but we also appreciate more experimental forms of presentation for one of the three thematic sections. Please send a short outline with a working title (approx. 150 words) and a CV to katrin.schmidt -at- musik.uni-giessen.de by 15 December 2024. After peer review by the organizational committee, you will receive a response from us by 31 January 2025. 

For more information: https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/fb03/institutefb03/musik