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In 2005, at the request of the NOVUS Art School he elaborates musical aesthetics topics for non-musician high-school graduate young people.
The task was, by starting out from music, to find problems that point beyond music and for whose discussion there is no need for expert musical knowledge.
Theoretical sessions were supplemented by creative musical games and exercises borrowed from dance therapy, which had the aim to highlight the relationship between music, movement and communication.

Brief review of the presentations and sessions:


Károly Cserepes:
Musical Infinity
Wandering about the Frontiers of Music

  1. What is music?
    • Rhythmic organisation of the Universe
    • Rhythmic organisation of cognition
    • Rhythmic organisation of music
  2. Voice
    • Voice as rhythm
    • Vocal microscopy (analysis and synthesis of voice)
    • Musical relativity theory
  3. Tone
    • Acoustics
    • Microphysics of music
    • Tuva song techniques
    • Problems of moderation (Béla Tarr: Werkmeister harmonies and lessons thereof)
    • Criticism of musical theory
  4. Musical rhythm
    • Origins and structure of musical rhythm
    • Ambiguity of rhythm, polyrhythm
    • Asymmetric rhythm and balance
  5. Origins and the three worlds of music
    • Disclosing nature’s secrets
    • Slowed down bird sounds
  6. Béla Bartók
    • The crisis of music at the beginning of the 20th century
    • Tonal music and dodecaphony
  7. Noise and silence
    • Extension of the concept of music
    • John Cage
    • Sampler and digital sound samples
  8. Repetitive music and minimal
    • Problems of little and much
    • The unchanged variable
  9. Music and communication
    • Music and movement: body language
    • Synchronisation of energies
    • (Creative sessions with dance therapy elements)
  10. Music and schmaltz
    • Social constraint of happiness. Analyses
  11. Jazz
    • Art or pop music?
  12. Rock music
    • Contemporary music or pop music?
  13. Techno
    • Shamanism
    • Music and trance
    • Techno and party culture
  14. Worldmusic
    • Music and globalisation
    • Problems of cultures crossing