Musical Aesthetics and Semiotics, Music Production
Brief characteristics
Heuristic research of creative dimension of music perception and original theory of musical correla(c)tivity focused on mutual correlation of poly-dimensional musical work of art and multidimensional (un)consciousness of listener. The history of non-conventional musical culture in Slovakia since 1980s. Innovative semiotics of music and innovation of education methods of music semiotics on high schools. Original, internationally valuated creation of contemporary non-conventional music.
Research team leader and team members
prof. Eero Tarasti (University of Helsinki, Finland)
prof. Ivo Medek (Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic)
prof. Ivo Medek (Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic)
Most significant research projects
- International research project: Musical Signification Project, 2006 - 2015.
Publications
- Fuják, J.: Musical Correla(c)tivity. Notes on Unconventional Music Aesthetics. - Nitra: ÚLUK FF UKF, 2005. - 140 p. - ISBN 80-8050-870-4;
- Fuják, J. & The California E.A.R Unit: TransPOPsitions! – Intermedia wrestling (DVD). Live in Los Angeles (Hevhetia, 2006);
- Fuják, J. (ed.): Otáz(ni)ky hudobnej semiotiky a estetiky (Question(mark)s in Musical Semiotics and Aesthetics). - Nitra: UKF, 2010. - 176 p. - ISBN 978-80-8094-693-7;
- Fuják, J.: Various Comprovisations. Texts on Music (and) Semiotics. Helsinki: Semiotic Society of Finland - Acta Semiotica Fennica XLVII, 2015. - 120 p. - ISBN 978-952-68257-5-5. - ISSN 1235-497X;
- Hautzinger, F. – Fuják, J. – Sörés, Z.: Live in Brussels (CD). (Hevhetia, 2013).
Conferences
- Intuitive Music, Its Correla(c)tivity and Intermedial Overlaps. 7th International Congress on Musical Signification (ICMS), Imatra, Finland, International Semiotic Institute, 2001;
- Intercultural Dimension of Improvise Music. 8th Congress of IASS "Signs Of The World: Interculturality and Globalization”. Lyon, France, Université Lyon, July 7, 2004;
- Mutual Correlation of Lyrics and Non-conventional Music (Contemporary Intermedial Projects in Slovakia). International Symposium Intermedialität in Der Lyrik in Ost-Mittel-Europa Nach 1960 organised by GWZO Universität Leipzig, Germany, July 9, 2005;
- The Remarkable Creativity of Music Perception. 9th International Congress on Musical Signification – Music Senses Body”, Rome, Italy, Universitá Tor Vergata. September 21, 2006;
- (Sonic) Notes of Comproviser on J. C. International Conference „John Cage: Man - Work - Paradox, Akademy of Music, Cracow, Poland, October 16, 2012;
- Slovak Experimental Music-Intermedia Arts from Semiotic Perspective (In Theoretical Range from Peter Faltin to Jozef Cseres). 12th International Congress on Musical Signification – „Music, Semiotics, Intermediality“, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, April 6, 2013.
International cooperation
International Association of Semiotic Studies, Helsinki, Finland;Esthétique de la Performance et des Arts du Spectacle, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France;
California Institute of the Arts, USA;
Akademia Muzyczna, Cracow, Poland;
Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic;
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic.
