Symposium 2025 – Program 

Venue: Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Orchestral Hall

9:00
Registration

9:30 – 11:00
Morning Session

• Gunnar Jinmei Linder – Ikkyū, the Buddhist monk-poet, and the thin layer between “popular” and “spiritual”
  
• Vlastislav Matoušek – The Formal Structure of Choshi

11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30
Keynote Speaker

• Matthew Noone – The Sound Beyond Imagination

12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break

14:00 – 16:00
Afternoon Session

• Tomáš Reindl – Researches of Psychological Aspects of Microintervals in Hindustani Music
• Rowan Glass – Ethnomusicology: “Shamans and Charlatans: The Circulation of ‘Medicine Music’ in Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley”
• Anna Neuwirthová – Music as a Medium

20:00
Concert: Opening Concert of the 15th International Shakuhachi Festival Prague 2025
ZEN: Sound and Silence
New Town Hall, Prague 1