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I N T E R N A T I O N A L   O R G E L P A R K   S Y M P O S I U M   2 0 2 5 

 

N E W     R E S E A R C H

 

 

 

The 18th International Orgelpark Symposium, taking place on June 5th, 6th, and 7th, showcases new research concerning organ art on three levels: research by scholars, research by instrument builders, and research by musicians. On all three levels a remarkable activity can be observed, suggesting that the organ is actually becoming successful at its transition into a 21st century instrument: it proves to fit any music by activating its historic roots, giving access to them in ways considered unthinkable until only recently. 

 

The Symposium brings together some of the main key figures in recent organ history, including Yves Rechsteiner (Toulouse-les-Orgues, initiator of the Explorateur Organ), Daniel Glaus (his project Organ-Innov-Um laid the foundations for the current developments), Hans-Ola Ericsson (who initiated the realization of the Orgel Acusticum, the huge hyperorgan in Piteå, North-Sweden), Randall Harlow (who coined the very term ‘hyperorgan’), and Nils-Henrik Asheim (who pioneered hyperorgan music before the term existed at all); as well as the organ builders Jürgen Scriba (presenting a brand-new dynamic organ valve, developed over the past year), Tony Decap (doing the very same, in a very different fashion), and Claudius Woehl (representing the next generation of organ builders). In addition, the symposium opens the Orgelpark’s floor for no less than fifteen young and very active researchers and artists, including Francesca Ajossa, Annie Garlid, Elisabeth Hubmann, Katta, Jasmine Karimova, and Amarante Nat.

 

Next to their contributions, the symposium schedule includes ample time for discussions, as well as three full-fledged evening concerts.

 

 

 

S Y M P O S I U M   D A Y   1  /  T H U R S D A Y  /  J U N E  5

 

14.15 WELCOME & MUSIC 

> Hans Fidom / Jasmine Karimova

 

14.30 KEYNOTE

> Yves Rechsteiner: New approaches to organ art

 

15.00 NEW TECHNOLOGIES [1]

> Tony Decap presents the SMARTValve

> gamut.inc presents their organ project

 

15.30 LECTURE / CONVERSATION

> Daniel Glaus: Looking back at the Organ-Innov-Um project

 

16.00 BREAK

 

16.30 LECTURE

> Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn: Listening as a tool to build instruments

 

17.00 CONCERT INTRODUCTIONS

> Randall Harlow: the Global Hyperorgan Event tomorrow moring

> Danya Pilchen: the Paper Braids concert tonight

 

17.30 BOOK PRESENTATION

> Peter Peters: Electronic Baroque / Making a pipe organ for the 21st c.

 

18.00 BREAK

 

20.15 CONCERT

> Danya Pilchen: Paper Braids

 

 

 

S Y M P O S I U M   D A Y   2  /  F R I D A Y  /  J U N E  6

 

09.00 GLOBAL HYPERORGAN EVENT: AULOS (KEVIN ERNSTE)

> One concert performed in three places:

         - Christoph Bull / Los Angeles (First Congregational Church), USA

         - Andrew Blackburn / Central Victoria, Australia

         - Randall Harlow / Amsterdam

 

10.00 KEYNOTE

> Bill Thompson: A Knowing Space

 

10.40 NEW TECHNOLOGIES [2]

> Jakob LKK: A transportable hyperorgan

 

11.00 BREAK

 

11.30 NEW TECHNOLOGIES [3]

> Adrian Foster: The harmonic hyperorgan

 

12.00 THE HYPERORGAN NETWORK

> Jan Stricker and Bjørn Ross: the Copenhagen Organ Sound Art Festival

> Nils-Henrik Åsheim: the Oslo Organotopia Festival

> gamut inc: Aggregate

 

12.45 BREAK

 

14.15 NEW RESEARCH [1]

> Michael Koenig: Early examples of a globalized pipe organ culture

> Jaap Jan Steensma: The Organ as an Identity Marker (1574-1798)

> George Rahi: Music for the augmented pipe organ

> Peter Power: rethinking the organ as a composer

 

16.00 BREAK

 

16.30 NEW RESEARCH [2]

> Giuliano Bracci: Transcribing / Between listening, memory, and invention

> Annie Garlid: Organ-core / Sacred organics in a 21st c. music scene

 

17.30 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

 

18.00 DINNER BREAK

 

20.15 CONCERT

> Guus Janssen: improvisations / new musics

> Jasna Velickovic: Orgelpark Chain Composition

> Sound Rebellion: Sonic Event

 

 

 

S Y M P O S I U M   D A Y   3  /  S A T U R D A Y  /  J U N E  7

 

09.30 NEW TECHNOLOGIES [4]

> Jürgen Scriba and Michael Krahe: Linear valves: the holy grail of organ

    building?

 

10.15 KEYNOTE

> Holger Schulze and Satoshi Morita: What does an organ pipe sound

   like? The craft of organ building and an anthropology of sound

 

11.00 BREAK

 

11.30 MUSICS

> Nils-Henrik Asheim: Dziga Vertov's Man with a movie camera

> Francesca Ajossa: Playing Cecilia Arditto

> Hans-Ola Ericsson: Mandatory music

 

12.45 BREAK

 

14.15 NEW TECHNOLOGIES [5]

> Hannes Ritschel: New AI-inspired organ playing technologies

 

14.45 NEW RESEARCH [3]

> Mauricio Silva Orendain: The plasticity of the pipe

> John Forster: Composing for hyperorgan

> Michele del Prete: A new perspective on 20th century organ art

 

16.00 BREAK

 

16.30 WRAPPING UP

> Introduction / Claudius Maria MayWoehl: Trancendence

> MUSIC / Katta

 

17.30 DINNER / TRAVEL BREAK

 

20.15 CONCERT (OUDE KERK)

> Hampus Lindwall, Ellen Arkbro, Hanne Lippard (ensemble)