Music Beyond Human. A conversation with Michel van der Aa

Jelena Novak

Jelena Novak Center for Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Keywords: Michel van der Aa

Abstract

This conversation was audio recorded in Michel Van der Aa’a studio in Amsterdam on 18 September 2019.

Author Biography

Jelena Novak, Center for Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Jelena Novak (CESEM, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) works as a researcher, lecturer, dramaturge, music critic and curator, aimed at bringing together critical theory and contemporary art. Her fields of interest are: music and opera in the age of posthuman, extended vocalities, singing and new media, capitalist realism, voice studies and feminine identities in music. Novak has been a founding committee member of the Society for Minimalist Music and a founding member of the editorial collective Teorija koja hoda, TkH [Walking Theory]. In 2013 she won the Thurnau Award for Music-Theatre Studies from the University of Bayreuth. Her most recent books are Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body (Ashgate/Routledge, 2015), Operofilia (Orion Art, 2018) and Einstein on the Beach: Opera Beyond Drama (co-edited with John Richardson, Routledge, 2019).