Reports from ICTM Study Groups

[...]not least, were the films screened at the symposium, such as Worth Repeating by Miranda van der Spek (on the music of the Ouldémé people in the North of Cameroon and its relations with daily life: an example of aesthetic perfection combined with documentary rigour); We're Too Loud by Michael MacDonald (about a second-generation rock musician struggling to maintain a "hippie" way of life); Ťažká duša by Jana Belišová (produced in collaboration with professional film-makers and Slovak television that tells three stories of young Roma people and their relation with traditional songs; Follow Me Down by Benjamin Harbert (an intense documentary about the importance of music for the inmates of different Louisiana prisons); Eolssigu! by Horacio Curti and Ariadna Pujol (various audiovisual pieces for a museum exhibition on the subject of traditional Korean music); and Estevao by Robbie Campbell (composed by two pieces of a non-linear immersive installation on Chopi timbila xylophone). The ten sessions focused, in a majority of cases, on the first sub-theme; while other approaches discussing institutional affiliations or relationships in a musical culture also contributed many interesting perspectives. [...]the presented papers comprised a wide variety of thoughts, from "we are all outsiders" (namely archivists who rely on experts) to "the ethnomusicologists, in-between archives and the others." Susanne Ziegler, who had led the Study Group for a long period, announced she wanted to step down. [...]she and Ingrid Åkesson (Co-Chair) had previously sent a letter to all Study Group members with a request to propose members who would take over the positions of Chair and Co-Chair. [...]the Study Group held a general assembly, chaired by the Steering Committee, which was attended by 83 participants.