The international modal music symposiums give a framework for reflection and research on modal musics.
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The international modal music symposiums give a framework for reflection and research on modal musics.
The international modal music symposiums give a framework for reflection and research on modal musics.
Modal understanding, which is historically present in Western music, seems today reserved for describing non-European music. However, modality is the base of many Western Europe popular types of music, as it is for Western Brittany, where oral and popular modal music was common. And it was this that fuelled our reflection.
The modal music network will be a cornerstone for thought, research and meetings aimed at feeding creation. It will bring together performers, composers, instrument makers, teachers and musicologists around a range of musical styles: popular and classical music from oral traditions, traditional music from Western countries, jazz and contemporary classical music.
Beyond informal exchanges, the members of the centre gather in biennial conferences to deal with modality and its presence in contemporary musical creation. The first conference, which marked the start of the centre, took place in November 2011 around the topic “Modality, a bridge between East and West”.
From there, every 2 years we have organized a symposium in Brittany on a different theme related to modal music.
2021 - DECEMBER 10th IN BREST, CAPUCINS
Hits and classics
Betrayal or reflection of popular musics of oral tradition?
2019 - 12 and 13 DECEMBER AT THE QUARTZ, NATIONAL SCENE IN BREST (29) - FESTIVAL NOBORDER #9
In a digital world, what (r)evolutions in mediation, transmission and creation practices for oral tradition music?
Symposium 2017
Drom organizes the 2017 NoBorder#7 Symposium on the theme of Pentatonism, its original and universal fantasy, its relation to modality, Celtic music and Breton music.
In parallel with the symposium, Drom organizes with its partners an internship on world music "From the village to the planet" for media practitioners, journalists and radio hosts, live performance professionals. Thursday 7th December
09h30 : Welcome | Greeting 10h00 : Symposium opening speech
10h30-12h30 : The (...)
Symposium 2015
TRANSMIT, TEACH, LEARN, REPRODUCE, IMITATE, FLY: WHAT CHOICES AND WHY?
Symposium 2015
Symposium "The transmission and teaching in folk music of oral tradition"
From 10 December 2015 10:00 to 11 December 2015 16:00
Symposium 2014 in collaboration with Le Quartz
You could not attend the 2014 NOBORDER Festival symposium ?
The summarises of the three round tables are available.
SYMPOSIUM 2013
Following the 2011 symposium "La Modalité : a bridge between East and West", Drom and its partners are preparing a second meeting on December 13 on the theme "Music (Modal, tonal, Eastern, Western, scholarly, popular) : between rejection and seduction".
Symposium 2011
On 17 and 18 November 2011, a conference gathering musicians, composers, instrument makers and craftsmen, and musicologists was held at Le Quartz, Brest’s Cultural Centre, to discuss modality in contemporary creation and the common points it implies between East and West.