Declaration of the First Symposium of European Experimental Composers The signatories, present at the First International Forum of Experimental Music declare 1 That from the sixties, the experimental music has played a very important role in the cultural and social policies all over Europe. 2 That this kind of music questions formal certainties, gives rise to new aesthetic forms, and foresees more humanized worlds. In the course of the last decades the experimental music has proved its capacity for: - pervading the frontiers both in a physical and intellectual way - - allowing the diversity of European peoples to express themselves by the creation of a more enriching future for Europe - - inciting the new generations to more active and creative forms of expression, to the detriment of the passive forms of consumption - 3 That the European cities are laboratories where the cultural reality in the Europe of the future starts brewing, and that the experimental music, independent of the specific national traditions, can create new links among the cities and enhance, therefore, the construction of a new Transeuropean culture.   Upon these basis, we stipulate the following objects: 1 The Forum of European Experimental Music in Barcelona will continue next year in Barcelona and afterwards in a different European city. 2 The creation of an adequate infrastructure and a network to spread information with the help of the musicians, 3 To increase the current involvement of the experimental music in the new technologies in order to improve the communication of cultural ideas among the cities, 4 To obtain the necessary financing in order to facilitate the creation of these networks and the movement of the artists in them. 5 Use the innovative and transnational nature of the experimental music to: (i) make the European citizens have access to a European scale culture and specially to enhance the existing interest of the young people and their active participation in the experimental artistic forms, through academic institutions and new structures. To develop new social situations for the cultural experiences, and new conditions for the music-reception and the creation. (ii) expand the cultural bonds among the geographical centres of the European Union and the peripheral territories, belonging or not to the Union, such as Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean area. (iii) overcome the isolation of the artists and other social groups against the centralized systems of cultural production on large scale, with the intention of providing with a new normality in order to facilitate the creative development of all the citizens in each city. (iv) stimulate the setting up of a network of collaborators in the creative industry and the production.   Therefore, we declare the intention to establish a permanent Secretariat of European Experimental Music in order to be able to carry out these objects within an indeterminate period which is independent of the most immediate national and social circumstances. Symposium of European Experimental Composers Copenhagen 9th October 1996 Barcelona Victor Nubla Brussels Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg Budapest Albert Márkos Copenhagen Martin Klapper Copenhagen Christer Irgens-Moller Copenhagen Henning Frimann Copenhagen Niels Winther Hamburg Birgit Ulherr Helsinki Raoul Björkenheim Lisbon Carlos Zingaro London Tim Hodgkinson Moscow Dmitry Ukhov Stockholm Raymond Strid Vienna Werner Kodytek Warsaw Krystof Knittel




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