| Post: | Head of Department |
| Other posts: | Senior Lecturer in Music |
| Location: | Silverstone |
| Email: | B.Heile@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 3198 |
| UK: | (01273) 873198 |
| International: | +44 1273 873198 |
Biography
I studied musicology and English and American Literature at Technische Universität Berlin (M.A. 1996), before embarking on a PhD at Southampton (2001). The title of my thesis is 'Transcending Quotation': Cross-cultural Musical Representation in Mauricio Kagel's Die Stücke der Windrose für Salonorchester; download it here http://www.sussex.ac.uk/music/documents/thesis.pdf and http://www.sussex.ac.uk/music/documents/appendix.pdf (two pdf files for the main text and the appendix respectively). Before becoming a full-time lecturer at the University of Sussex (from 2003), I was Leverhulme Special Research Fellow at the University of Southampton (2001-02) and at Sussex (2002-03).
I became Head of Department in January 2007 and have been trying ever since to square the circle of providing the best education and experience for students, a supportive environment for staff and positive results for University managers.
For more details, go to my website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/bh25/
Role
Head of Department, Library CoordinatorResearch
Most of my research centres on new music, experimental music theatre and contemporary jazz. My book The Music of Mauricio Kagel (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) has been variously described as 'masterly' (The Musical Times), 'impressive' (Notes), 'highly successful' (Studies in Musical Theatre), 'fine' (Music and Letters) and 'extremely well-crafted and stimulating' (Latin American Music Review), among other things. My new book, a collection of articles entitled The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), is intended to shift the debate on contemporary music.
I am currently working with Martin Iddon (Lancaster) on an edition of the correspondence and other documents relating to Mauricio Kagel's participation at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses on New Music. At the same time, I am working on a larger project, tentatively entitled 'New Music, Globalisation and the Cultural Geography of Modernism', which will, among other things, examine the global spread of contemporary classical music and the ensuing dynamics of centres and peripheries as well as the curiously deterritorialised (to employ a Deleuzian term) nature of new music.
Selected publications
2009
Musikgeschichte als Geschichten-Erzählen: Ein Argentinier in Darmstadt in MusikTexte
The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music Aldershot: Ashgate, 260 pp.
2008
Uri Caine’s Mahler in Twentieth-century Music pp. 229-55
`Composition with Film: Mauricio Kagel as Filmmaker Robynn Stilwell, Phil Powrie, ed., in Composing for the Screen in the USSR and Germany Bloomington: Indiana University Press pp. 106-21
`Homo ludens? Spiel und Spielen im Werk von Mauricio Kagel¿ Werner Klüppelholz, ed., in Vom instrumentalen zum imaginären Theater: Musikästhetische Wandlungen im Werk von Mauricio Kagel Hofheim: Wolke pp. 109-27
`Transcending Quotation¿: Cross-cultural Musical Representation in Mauricio Kagel¿s Die Stücke der Windrose für Salonorchester Saarbrücken: VDM
2007
`Avantgarde, Engagement und Autonomie: Mauricio Kagel in den sechziger Jahren¿ Arnold Jacobshagen and Markus Leniger, ed., in Rebellische Musik: Gesellschaftlicher Protest und kultureller Wandel um 1968 Cologne: Dohr pp. 81-91
`Mauricio Kagel¿s ¿Instrumental Theatre¿: Metaxis, Framing and Modes of Presentation ¿ Five Propositions¿ Giordano Ferrari, ed., in La musique et la scène : L¿écriture musicale et son expression scénique au xxe siècle Paris: L'Harmattan pp. 183-92
`W poszukiwaniu Kagela: rozwa¿ania o twórczej subiektywno¿ci¿ [`Apocrypha and Simulacra: On Kagel¿s Recent Work¿] in Res facta nova pp. 11-19
2006
Recent Approaches to Experimental Music Theatre and Contemporary Opera in Music and Letters Volume 87 pp. 72-81
The Music of Mauricio Kagel Aldershot: Ashgate, 209 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3523-6
2004
“Transcending Quotation’: Cross-cultural Musical Representation in Mauricio Kagel’s Die Stücke der Windrose für Salonorchester in Music Analysis Volume 23 pp. 57-85
Darmstadt as Other: British and American Responses to Musical Modernism in Twentieth Century Music Volume 1 pp. 161-78
Imaginäre und imaginierte Musik im Schaffen von Mauricio Kagel Ulrich Tadday, ed., in Musik-Konzepte: Mauricio Kagel ISBN 3-88377-761-7
`Imaginäre und imaginierte Musik im Werk von Mauricio Kagel¿ in Musik-Konzepte pp. 83-96
`Kagel, Bachtin und eine dialogische Theorie musikalischer Intertextualität¿ Felix Diergarten, Ludwig Holtmeier and Michael Polt, ed., in Musiktheorie zwischen Historie und Systematik: 1. Kongreß der deutschen Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie Saarbrücken: Wissner pp. 62-69
2002
`Collage vs. Compositional Control: The Interdependency of Modernist and Postmodernist Approaches in the Work of Mauricio Kagel¿ Joseph Auner and Judy Lochhead, ed., in Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought London: Routledge pp. 287-99