What are and were the roles of different musical instruments in their communities and how are they changing? What are the key factors enabling and influencing these changes? How does the process of internationalisation of regional instruments and their use in artificial music influence their construction, practice, and social status? How do composers influence these processes?

Speakers:
Hiromu Motonaga (keynote)
Genmyo Iso (keynote)
Gunnar Jinmei Linder (keynote)
Hannes Heyne
Jana Ryndová PhD.
Tara Browner
Özlem Doğuş Varli
Mahmut Cemal Sarí
Vlastislav Matoušek
Saida Daukeyeva
Erdem Özdemir
Sedat Çılgın
Ahmed Tohumcu

 

Symposium took place during ISFP 2017
Find out more: 2017.isfp.cz

ISFP 2016 was organised by NEIRO Association for Expanding Arts with the support of HAMU, National Gallery, Czech-Japanese Association, OSA, Municipality of Prague, hotel AXA, Institut intermédií, exprestisk.info, Radio Wave, Ministry of Culture, Classic radio, Radio 1, GOOUT, FF UK, Japanese Foundation and Miyabi