BEAST FEaST 2019: ▶︎▶︎fast-forward▶︎◀︎rewind◀︎◀︎
Thursday 2 – Saturday 4 May 2019
The University of Birmingham, UK

Since its inception, electronic music has been wedded to notions of modernity 
and futurity. Composers like Edgar Varese and Iannis Xenakis styled themselves 
as musician-scientists, blazing a path into the future, while popular 
electronic music from Louis and Bebe Barron to Kraftwerk frequently drew on 
images of space travel and nuclear power to frame the new sounds of electronic 
synthesis. Recent years have seen postmodern tropes of revivalism, pastiche, 
and appropriation make an appearance in popular electronic music genres like 
hauntology, as musicians have become increasingly interested in plundering the 
past as a resource for the present. Yet this fervour has not taken hold to the 
same extent in electroacoustic music, and much of the discourse around the form 
remains at least outwardly committed to the modernist ideas of the new it 
espoused in the 1950s; an ‘old’ ideal of the new, rather than a ‘new’ 
fashioning of the old.

Under what conditions might the old be reimagined as the new? Is the 
‘old-fashioned’ ideal of the perpetually new more productive and necessary than 
ever, or simply the intellectual underpinning for well-established styles and 
schools? For this edition of BEAST FEaST, we invite composers and listeners of 
electronic music to rewind in order to fast-forward: What new paths may open up 
by engaging more closely with works, idioms, and technologies from the past? 
What ideas, old and new, might take us forward?

Join us for three days of music, meeting, and ideas, along with featured guest 
artists Norah Lorway <http://https//norahlorway.com>, Pete Stollery 
<http://http//homepages.abdn.ac.uk/wae006/petestollery.com/en/>, Anothai 
Nitibhon <https://www.anothain.com/>, Jean-David Caillouët 
<https://www.facebook.com/zoosounds/>, Anton Lukoszevieze 
<http://www.antonlukoszevieze.co.uk/> and Apartment House 
<http://www.apartmenthouse.co.uk/>.


CALL FOR WORKS, TALKS, AND INSTALLATIONS

For BEAST FEaST 2018 we invite submissions that touch on any aspect of the 
theme ▶︎▶︎fast-forward▶︎◀︎rewind◀︎◀︎described above. We seek to represent the 
broadest range of electronic music practices and practitioners at the festival, 
and we aim for diversity of music, background, and ethnicity, as well as 
balance in gender representation. We therefore encourage all to submit to our 
call for works, and ask that you repost this call as widely as possible.

More info and Call for Works, Installations and Talks here: 
http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/beast-feast-2019/ 
<http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/beast-feast-2019/>

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