Darmstadt Events. The Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music from 1964 to1994 as a space of aesthetic, theoretical and political action

该项目的目标是在Ernst Thomas和Friednch Hommel担任董事期间对达姆施塔特夏季课程进行评估，基于对课程期间制作的原始录音的仔细检查。我们从三个不同的角度来研究“达姆施塔特事件”，每一个都在单独的出版物中讨论：首先，我们看一看课程中美学问题的历史演变。其次，系统分析了音乐理论在具体课程条件下的发展。第三个焦点是社会政治性的。另有一卷补充了这项研究，提供了一个主要来源的版本。我们的目标是开发一种基于行动背景的替代音乐史学方法，而不是20世纪下半叶对音乐的传统历史描述。从一开始，我们就认为有必要补充该项目的历史、美学和社会政治角度，重点放在理论角度上，这一假设已被证明是正确的，无论是参考资料本身还是从最终的论证路线。因此，延长期将用来完成在第一阶段开始的两本已经很先进的专著，并再编写一本临时标题为《理论和/作为实践》的专著和另一卷，其中将包括一本有许多资料来源的版本。与书面文本相比，口头陈述往往是自发的，是在试探性的理论语境中提出的，因此它们产生了关于空白和经常被认为是相互矛盾的理论概念之间的联系的丰富信息。一份单独的出版物(第2卷)将使人们能够对各来源的专题组采取系统的办法，而不是按实际时间顺序排列。与历史和美学观点(第1卷)和社会政治观点(第3卷)一起，确保对1964年至1994年达姆施塔特夏季课程的历史进行广泛的批判性重建。一卷编辑的文件(第4卷)将是迄今为止无法获得的资料来源的第一次出版，并将突出本项目所审查的各种抄本、书面资料来源和照片的具体质量。出于实际原因，我们决定记录托马斯和霍梅尔的董事职务--从1962年开始，一直持续到1994年--只要资料来源允许。这不会影响总体概念，但将提高文件的整体可用性，并增强我们论证所依据的组织结构的观点。

The goal ofthis project is the evaluation of the Darmstadt summer courses during the directorships of Ernst Thomas and Friednch Hommel, based on careful examination of original audio recordings which were made, during the courses. We examine the "Darmstadt events" from three distinct perspectives, each of which is dealt with in a separate publication: First we look at the historical evolution of aesthetic questions during the courses. Secondly, we systematically analyse the development of music theory under the specific conditions of the courses. And the third focus is of socio-political nature. An additional volume supplements the study by providing an edition of major sources. It is our goal to develop an alternative method of music historiography based on the context of actions, as opposed to the custornary historical description of music in the second half of the twentieth century.From the beginning, we felt it would be necessary to complement the historical, aesthetic and socio-political perspectives of the project with a focus on the theoretical perspective, and this hypothesis has proven to be correct, both in reference to the sources themselves and to the resulting line of argumentation. Thus the extension period will be used to complete the two monographs begun in the first period and which are already well advanced, as well as to develop an additional monograph with the working title of Theory and/as Praxis and a further volume which will consist of an edition of numerous sources.The recordings of lectures, courses and discussions, which have already been largely evaluated, will be examined closer in respect to processes of theory construction. In comparison to written texts, oral statements are often formulated spontaneously and in a tentative theoretical context, and thus they yield rich information both on blank spaces and on connections between theoretical concepts which are often considered to be contradictory. A separate publication (volume 2) will enable the application of a systematic approach to thematic clusters of sources apart from their actual chronological order. Together with the historical and aesthetic perspectives (volume 1) and the socio-political perspective (volume 3), a broad critical reconstruction of the history of the Darmstadt summer courses from 1964 to 1994 is ensured. A volume of edited documents (volume 4) win be the first publication of sources hitherto unavailable and will underline the specific qualities of the various clusters of transcriptions, written sources and photos examined in this project. For pragmatic reasons, we have decided to document the directorships of Thomas and Hommel - beginning in 1962 and lasting until 1994 - as far as the sources permit. This will not affect the overall concept, but it will improve the overall usability of the documentation and enhance the view of the organizational structures that our argumentation is based on.