The Music of Nature: Sound Imitation in Ritual and Art
The Russian Institute for History of the Arts’s Department of Organology held a conference entitled “The Music of Nature: Sound Imitation in Ritual and Art” on October 10th in the Institute’s Green Hall in St Petersburg, Russia. The focus of this conference was on the phenomenon of the imitation of nature as the foundations of art.
Topics included:
1. Mimesis in poetics and music
2. Elements of nature and music
3. Landscapes and the sounds of music
4. The cosmos and music
5. Flora and fauna and musical symbolism
6. Contemporary musical technologies as instruments of musical imitation
7. Musical instruments and the image of the world