‘Hiu Liu - Sound Flowing’ is the title of an oncoming deSingel concert by Het Collectief and the Chinese Dragon Ensemble. To provide a theoretical framework to this event, the study group WHAM (study of contemporary and present-day music) of the Antwerp conservatory, is organizing a conference on Chinese music and the link between Western and Eastern (contemporary) music and modes of composition.
Composers Kee Yong Chong, Huang Roo and Annelies Van Parys will elucidate their views on the subject during workshops. Additionally, Chin Cheng Lin, who is preparing a doctorate at the Arts Faculty of the Antwerp Conservatory, will give a talk on ‘Natural Movement in Marimba Playing’, the subject of his thesis. Prof. Dr. Walter Weyns and Prof. Dr. Philippe Verbeeck, both of the University of Antwerp, will provide an insight into the relation between East and West from a socio-cultural and cultural-philosophical point of view. There will equally be masterclasses about Chinese instruments and ways of playing them. • Reflections on Chinese Culture in times of globalization (Prof. Dr. P. Verbeeck)
• A perspective on Chinese music culture : a testimony by composers and musicians (Kee Yong Chong / Huang Roo / Wu Wei)
• Traditional and contemporary concert practice in China (D. Moelants)
• About exotism and the tension between Eastern and Western culture exchange. (Prof. Dr. W. Weyns)
• The philosophy of Tai Chi(Chin Cheng Lin)
the link: http://www.europalia.eu/programme/conferences/colloques-workshops-conferences/article/confluence-between-east-and-west?lang=fr
