ACHAR LASKEWICZ,
Theoretician
Contents:
1 - ACADEMIC CV
2 - Theoretical Documentation/Publications
Name: Zachar Alexander Leonid LASKEWICZ
Address: Rogierlaan 283
1030 Brussels
Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)2 215 6618
Date of Birth: March 19, 1971
Country of Origin: Australia
EDUCATION
1989 - 1993
Bachelor of Arts with honours: theater and drama studies
Murdoch University, Perth (Australia).
1993
First Licence in experimental music
Royal Conservatorium, Ghent (Belgium).
1994
Diploma: "German Elementary Knowledge"
Provinciaal Handels- en Taalinstituut, Ghent.
1995
Diploma: "Nederlands als Tweede Taal, Programma II"
(Dutch as a second language-reading, writing, listening and speaking)
Amsterdam
1996
Graduate Diploma: language studies
Edith Cowan University, Perth.
WORK EXPERIENCE
1991
January 28
Lecture on music-theatre:
Logos Foundation, Ghent.
August Publication:
"Using
Music as an Open Creative Resource"
New Music Articles (issue 9) 1991, pp 26-30
NMA Publications
1992
July 17
Paper presented at colloquium:
"Rethinking
language and text in terms of a musical aesthetic"
Colloquium on Australian, American and British poetry set to music
Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia.
1993
January 26
Lecture on research: Contemporary Music Project
Royal Conservatorium, Ghent.
1995
June 10-16
Paper presented at congress:
"ZAUM:
words without meaning or meaning without words?
Towards a musical understanding of language."
International Summer Congresses for Structural and Semiotic Studies
Imatra, Finland.
1996
June 9-16
Paper presented at seminar:
"Indexicality
and Iconicity in Balinese Musical Texts"
5th International Seminar on Musical Semiotics
Imatra, Finland.
September 5-9 Paper presented at congress:
"Time and Space in Balinese Musical Texts"
International Semiotics Congress
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
November 4-6
Lecture Series Presented in Finland:
Towards a Multimedial Approach to Musical Experience
November 4 "Music as Experience/Music as Text"
November 5 "Balinese Music as an Embedded Sign:Time, Space and
Multimediality
in Balinese Music Performances."
November 5 "Multimedial Musicality in Twentieth Century Avant-garde
Performance"
University of Helsinki, Finland
November 14-16
Paper presented at congress:
"The
Balinese Musical Sign Embodied in Time and Space"
Fifth International Congress on Musical Signification
Bologna, Italy
1997
Paper presented at congress
"The
Organic Presence of the Sign in Balinese Performance Texts"
6th International Congress of the International Association for Semiotic
Studies
Guadalajara, Mexico
2000
Doctoral
Dissertation
Presented
at the University Of Ghent
under
the supervision of Prof. S. Kersenboom and Prof. J. Van Schoor
Multimedial
Musicality in the Performance Text
Part
1: Discovering the Musical Text as an Embedded Sign
Part
2: Interculturality in Balinese Performance Texts
MEMBERSHIPS
Musical Signification Project
International Semiotics Institute
Imatra Cultural Centre
Virastokatu 1, 55100 Imatra
Finland
International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS-IAS)
Institute for Socio-Semiotic Studies
Waltergasse 5/1/12, A-10-40 Vienna
Austria
Australian Music Centre (AMC)
Representation status
PO Box N690, Grosvenor Place NSW 2000
Australia
Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA)
Writer Full Member
PO Box 567, Crows Nest NSW 2065
Australia
Referees Prof. Saskia Kersenboom
Anthropological Linguistics
Department of Cultural Anthropology
University of Amsterdam
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185
1012 DK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel. +32 (0)20 525 2625
THEORETICAL DOCUMENTATION / PUBLICATIONS
"There
Will Come Soft Rains: analysis"
Description:
Unpublished paper
"Pinter's
The Birthday Party"
Description:
Unpublished paper
"Using
Music as an Open Creative Resource" New Music Articles (issue 9) 1991,
pp. 26-30 Sounds Australian (Australian Music Centre Ltd.).
Description: Article published in Australia, based on paper the composer
gave at 'The Logos Foundation' in Ghent, Belgium, January 28th 1991.
"The Performance Theory
of Music-Theatre"
Description:
Unpublished Article
"The
Work of Mauricio Kagel"
Description:
Research Assignment
"The
History and Relevance of the New Music-Theatre"
Description:
Research Assignment
"The
Russian Futurist Connection: Rediscovery of language through music-theatre
performance"
Description: Paper presented at the Colloquium on Australian, American
and British poetry set to music, Edith Cowan University, Perth Australia,
July 17th 1992.
Availability: Paper available on loan from the State Library of Western
Australia.
"Het Loket: an anti-opera (an analytical essay)"
Description: Written for the new-music composition project at the Royal
Ghent Conservatorium in Ghent, discussing Zachar's composition sharing the same
name.
"Language, Text, Music Theatre: Extending the Significative Potential of
Music in the Theatre, Towards a new concept of signification"
Description: Honours Thesis, Murdoch University 1993.
Availability: Available from the private collection of Zachar Laskewicz.
ZAUM: New Music-theatre for five performers and tape.
a historical, theoretical and scenic description
Night Shades Press, 1994.
Availability: Book available on loan from the State Library of Western
Australia.
Personal
Manifesto
Manifesto One: Reflections on Language, Culture, Art and Science
Manifesto Two: Language, Music and Communication
Nachtschimmen Press, 1995.
Availability: Book available on loan from the State Library of Western
Australia.
"ZAUM:
words without meaning or meaning without words? Towards a Musical Understanding
of Language"
Description: Paper presented at the International Summer Congresses
for Structural and Semiotic Studies, Imatra, Finland, June 10-16, 1995.
Availability: Paper available on loan from the State Library of Western
Australia.
"Indexicality
and Iconicity in Balinese Musical Texts"
Description: Abstract for a paper presented at the 5th international
Seminar on Musical Semiotics, Imatra, Finland, June 9th 1996.
Availability: Abstract available on loan from the State Library of
Western Australia.
"The
Balinese Musical Sign Embodied in Time and Space"
Description: Paper presented at the International Project on Musical
Signification's international conference in Bologna Italy, November 14-16 1996.
"The
Organic Presence of the Sign in Balinese Performance Texts"
Description: Paper presented at the "Semiotics Briding Nature &
Culture" congress held in Guadalajara, Mexico, July 13-18, 1997. Published
on a CD-Rom.
"Development,
Change and Integration: Popular Music in Balinese Performance in the 20th
Century"
Description: Paper written by Zachar Laskewicz for a conference on
Popular Music in Asia..
Written by Zachar Laskewicz April 1998.
"Musical
Sound as Presence: Musical Experience as a Dynamic Cultural Epistemology"
Description: Abstract for paper to be presented in Aix-en-Provence in
December1998 at the ICMS 6
"Popular
Music and Interculturality: the dynamic presence of Pop music in
contemporary Balinese performance"
Description:
Article awaiting publication in a book on pop music and cultural capital
Doctoral
Thesis: Multimedial Musicality in the Performance
Text
Description:
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