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CONCERT

Thursday, 5 November, 19.00 * Bratislava, Slovak Radio, Studio 5
> Rudolf Růžička - Crucifixion I.
> Zoltan Pongracz - Concertino per zimbalo ungherese, cimbalom: Viktoria Herencsar
> Magdalena Dlugosz - U zrodla, At The Roots
> Janos Decsenyi - Stones
> Dieter Kaufmann - Blech & Kehle, eine Alpensymphonie Tag, Nacht, Morgen (parts 1, 2, 3) Schrott & Korn, eine Abfallsymphonie Hochzeitsreise, Passage (parts 4, 5) voice: Gunda Koenig piano, voice: Dieter Kaufmann
> Peter Zagar - Music From Studio piano: Peter Zagar dance: Group of Contemporary Dance Bratislava choreography: Zuzana Hájková

SEMINAR

TRADITIONS, THE PRESENT AND PERSPECTIVES OF ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC IN CENTRAL-EUROPEAN REGION

Friday, 6 November - 9.30 - 13.00 * Seminar in the Conference Hall
> Dieter Kaufmann
> Zoltan Pongracz
> Roman Berger
> Jozef Patkowski
> Lothar Voigtlaender
- 15.00 - 17.30 * Presentations in the Fresco Hall
> Lothar Voigtlaender
> Christian Calon
- 19.30 - 22.00 * Presentation of CD anthology
Electroacoustic music in Castle Lounge Saturday,

Saturday, 7 November * Dolná Krupá Castle
- 9.30 - 13.00 * Seminár in the Conference Hall
> János Decsényi
> Hugh Davies
> Gian Franco Maffina
> Rudolf Růžička
- 15.00 - 17.30 * Panel discussion regarding separate
lectures of the seminar in Castle Lounge

Castle in Dolná Krupá

IFEM '92 - organized by CECM Bratislava (Center For Electroacoustic And Computer Music) in cooperation with Experimental Studio of Slovak Radio and Slovak Music Fund, supported by State Cultural Fund Pro Slovakia and The British Council Bratislava. Concept by Juraj Ďuriš, Andrej Zmeček, Rudolf Žákovský - published by CECM Bratislava 1993


International Forum of Electroacoustic Music - IFEM '92
We have endeavoured to make this catalogue not only a collection of statements, but also an attempt on mediation of events, because in mutual connections and in the context of undocumented or nonverbal information consists their message.
The statements were presented as seminar papers in the Dolna Krupa Castle in Slovakia from 5 to 7 November, 1992. We gave the whole event - together with accompanying concert and presentations - the name: International Forum of Electroacoustic Music - IFEM '92.
The Forum has arisen from the need for communication. Centres for electroacoustic music have got long-term traditions in central Europe. However, information interchange and cooperation - if any at all - take place only in certain latent forms. This condition caused natural need to create a platform that would enable regular interchange of opinions, ideas, experiences, analyses and information from this sphere of contemporary art. The potential is sufficient for the discussion; not only in historical view but, first of all - with regard to rapid technological development, expansion of compositional possibilities and presentation techniques of musical artifacts - the present and the future are to be discussed.
Besides the papers at the seminar, pieces of Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Austrian and Slovak electroacoustic music were presented in the opening concert. The objective of IFEM '92 was to make transparent, present and recapitulate the experience of electroacoustic music in this region, for the first time after the iron curtain breakdown.
The participants presented Canadian and German music during the session in the Castle. We understand the international character of the Forum within wider than regional scope. With respect to foregoing years of mutual isolation, contacts between cultures are becoming inevitable. Therefore, personalities from worldwide had been invited to the Forum. Their participation made possible more universal comparisons, more open view of the actual state of things, more complex formal and esthetical evaluations.
Our intention is to continue in organization of the Forum in the future; to make it a constant platform for communication and cooperation, placed somewhere at the boundary of Eastern and Western cultures. The first step is completed by the edition of these proceedings.