Symposium 2025 – Program (to be finalised by 19. 5. 2025)

9:00
Registration

9:30 – 11:00
Morning Session

• Dieter Weische – Robuki and its Healing Properties
• Gunnar Jinmei Linder – TBA
• Vlastislav Matoušek – TBA

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 – TBA
• Marius Hofbauer – John Cage’s Empty Words and Mindfulness: Music, Meditation, and (Not) Listening at the Naropa Institute, 1974

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