Von: Lepa, Steffen via ak discourse
Datum: Fri, 16 Oct 2026
Betreff: [ak-discourse] WG: [auditive-medienkulturen] AREM 2026 – symposium on archiving and re-performing electroacoustic music
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to AREM 2026: Symposium on Archiving and Re-Performing Electroacoustic Music, taking place on 27–28 November 2026 in a hybrid format at TU Dortmund and online.
Focusing on the theme „Transformations,“ this year’s symposium brings together international researchers, archivists, artists, and practitioners to discuss the documentation, preservation and re-performance of electroacoustic, computer and digital music from different disciplinary and practical perspectives. Topics include the preservation and reactivation of electronic music studios and repertoire, personal and independent archives, AI and digitisation, digital cultural heritage, and the changing relationships between archives and musical practice.
Friday, 27.11.2026
14.00 Welcome!
14.00 – 15.45 Documentation for Preservation
„Reactivating the WDR Studio for Electronic Music“ | Gregor Hotz, Thomas Glässer and Marcus Erbe
„A New Access Strategy to Sources on Scientific Software“ | Carsten Reinhardt
„Syrian Cassette Archives: Sound & Memory Beyond the Institution“ | Mark Gergis and Yamen Mekdad
16.15 – 18.00 Learning from Archival Material using AI
„There’s Something Written on the Tapes…! The Bernd Alois Zimmermann Complete Edition as a Best-Practice Model for Multimodal Digitization and AI-Assisted Analysis of 1960s Tape Music“ | Matthias Pasdzierny
„When Transformation Is the Threat: AI, Accessibility, and the Integrity of Digital Atrocity Archives“ | Eve M. Zucker
„Shadow Material – Extracting and Embodying the Inaccessible Architecture of Archived Electroacoustic Multichannel Works“ | Gerriet Sharma
„From Tape to Code: An international AI-based standard for audio cultural heritage preservation“ | Marina Bosi and Sergio Canazza
Saturday, 28.11.2026
10.30 – 11.00 a.m. Personal Archives
„Teresa Rampazzi Archive“ | Laura Zattra
„Archival Transformations in Practice at the Grainger Museum“ | Monica Lim
„The Digital Barlow Archive – An Approach of Amplifying Participation“ | Fabian Czolbe
11.30 – 12.30 Archiving the invisible
„Are Independent Music Archives on the Internet Sustainable? Preserving the Serbian Art Music Heritage“ | Bojana Radovanović
„free-quenzy, queer feminist sonic technologies, audiocollectifness on recon.org“ | AGF (Antye Greie-Ripatti)
12.30 – 13.30 Repertoire in Transformation
„John Cage Williams Mix“ | Volker Straebel
„From Repertoire to Repository: Practical Transformations in Digital Archiving Venezuela’s Electroacoustic Heritage“ | Luis Ernesto Gómez Quintero and Diego Morales
The Symposium includes also three extra on-site events:
a workshop on documenting and preserving new music works using IRCAM’s Antony platform (27.11.2026, 10-12.30)
a screening of the film „Salamiyah – Lady of the Land“, produced by Syrian Cassette Archives, followed by a Q&A (27.11.2027, 18.15-20.00)
and a performance by Gerriet K. Sharma (28.11.2026, 13.30-15.00)
Attendance is free of charge.
For online participation, please register by contacting symposium.arem@gmail.com. You will then receive the ZoomLink to your email address.
For participating at the Antony workshop, please also register via Email to symposium.arem@gmail.com.
AREM 2026 will be held on-site at Studiobühne (U.215), Emil-Figge Straße 50, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany
The full programme, speaker information and further details can be found on the AREM website:
https://musik.kmst.tu-dortmund.de/en/forschung/systematische-musikwissenschaft/arem/
We look forward to welcoming at AREM2026!
Best,
Miriam Akkermann and the AREM organising team
Institute for Music and Musicology
TU Dortmund University