Irina Kirchberg et Axel Petri-Preis ont présenté une conférence dans le cadre des journées d’étude Turning Social qui se déroulaient à la University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Different innovative potentials are attributed to the practice of music mediation (Musikvermittlung, médiation de la musique, audience and community engagement). According to the logic of cultural institutions, it is associated with audience development, the hope of acquiring new audiences. From the perspective of cultural education, music mediation is capable of enabling intensive aesthetic experiences that stimulate musical learning processes. In terms of cultural policy, it is believed to enable access to the cultural heritage. Finally, from a socio-political perspective, music mediation is seen as having the potential to exert a socially transformative effect on concert life, (higher) music education and society as a whole.
In order to unfold this social-transformative potential, practitioners in music mediation make use of the great attraction that music exerts on (many) people. Through music it is possible to unite people spatially for a certain time, to bring them together in one place – be it physical or digital. After more than two years marked by physical distancing during the Corona pandemic, the initiation of real encounters between people through music is of central importance for the practice of music mediation.
Pour plus d’informations, visiter le site web de la conférence.
