The scandal of (musical) democracy: Collective composing and improvising in an early childhood university department

The Scandal of (Musical) Democracy research project was initiated in 2009 when a group of students of our department decided to collectively and systematically delve into composing and improvising. Using a variety of working formats (which are also decided collectively) we create improvisations and compositions which are recorded at the University of Thessaly Music Recording Studio (School of Architecture). Ethnographic data have being gathered from 2012 onwards, providing insights on issues related to the forms of knowledge developed during this work, to the nature of the creative processes employed, and to the changes to musical and professional identities that this engagement has induced. To this day, this project have yielded the following publications and research conference papers: 

Publications: 

Kanellopoulos, P. A. (in review). Re-imagining music Pædeia in the age of machinic capitalism: A proposal「提案：重新想像机器式资本主义下的音乐教化（Pædeia）」[Translated by Liu Chiao-Wei]. In R. E. Allsup, Hu Xin, Liu Chiao-Wei, & Chen Shuhua (eds.), New directions for performance and music teacher education (Volumes 1 & 2): Proceedings from the symposium on university music education in China (2016), The Arts College of Xiamen University. Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China. Xiamen City: Xiamen University Press. 

Kanellopoulos, P. Α. (2016). Problematizing (musical) knowledge–power relationships: a Rancièrian provocation. Philosophy of Music Education Review, 24(1),24-44. 

Kanellopoulos, P. A. (2015). Musical creativity and ‘the police’: Troubling core music education certainties. In Cathy Benedict, Patrick Schmidt, Gary Spruce, and Paul Woodford (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Kanellopoulos, P. A. , Wright, R. W. , Hutchison, J. (2012). From ‘emancipation from’ to ‘emancipated to’: Re-thinking the role of musical improvisation in university education. Paper presented at Perspectives on Musical Improvisation Conference, 10th-13th September 2012, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. 

Paper presentations: 

Kanellopoulos, P. A. (2015). Liminality, freedom and the scandal of democracy in university education. Paper Presented at The 9th International Conference for Research in Music Education (RIME), 14 -18th April 2015. 

 
Kanellopoulos, P. A. (2015). "Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child": Revisiting improvisation pedagogy via Arendt's 'conservatism'. Paper Presented at the10th International Symposium on the Philosophy of Music Education, June 03-06, 2015, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 

Kanellopoulos, P. A. (2014). "From class to clash: Improvisation in education". Invited lecture at “Improvisation, Community Health, and Social Responsibility: Sounding possibilities: Improvisation and community action”  symposium, organised by the Onassis Cultural Centre – Athens (OCC), in partnership with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICS), OCC, October 31st – November 2nd 2014. 

Kanellopoulos, P. A. (2013). Το σκάνδαλο της δημοκρατίας στη μουσική παιδαγωγική: Η θεώρηση του Ζακ Ρανσιέρ για τις πολιτικές του αισθητικού και οι συνέπειές της για μιαν παιδαγωγική της μουσικής δημιουργικότητας [The scandal of democracy in music education: Jacque Ranciere's perpective on the policits of aesthetics and its consequence for creatice music education]. Invited lecture at Onassis Cultural Centre (OCC), Athens 26-1-2013. 

Music release: 

Monday's Drop(s): Three Improvisation Moments, Armures Provisoires, 2018:  http://www.armuresprovisoires.com/mondaysdrop.php