Pipeworks
GOArt Symposium, St Paul's Church, Arran Quay, Dublin 7
19 October 2013, 10.00–16.00 (registration 09.30)
Fee: €25 (Concessions: €15)
(Fees may be paid on the day or in advance on the mycharity.ie website

Programme
10.00–10.40 Brief introductory talks
10.00 Ms Kate Manning: Ireland's built heritage
10.10 Mr Mark Duley: An overview of Irish historic organs and restoration
10.20 Dr Paul McKeever: John White and the organ of St Paul's Arran Quay
10.40–13.00 Johan Norrback (Director, GOArt) and Carl Johan Bergsten
(coffee, 11.20) (Research Engineer,GOArt):
• Background on GOArt’s work in historic documentation and restoration
• How that work has been received in the local and wider communities
• Approaches to establishing a minimum standard for technical and historic documentation of organs in Ireland, using the White instrument as a case study
13.00–14.00 Lunch
14.00–16.00 Directed discussion about the preservation of historic organs in Ireland.

About GOArt
GOArt is a research centre that specializes in integrated studies of instruments and performance. The pipe organ and its related keyboard instruments—the clavichord, harpsichord, harmonium, and fortepiano—form our research field.
The GOArt Research Profile
GOArt’s research profile can be described as a dialectic among the instrument, the builder, the performer, and the music. All of these can be taken into account, investigated, and problematized. The instrument is respected as a coherent expression of an aesthetic and as such an agent that can teach the performer. Our first major research period, from 1995 to 2000, included two large projects: The North German Organ Research Project (NGORP), and Changing Processes in North European Organ Art 1600–1970.
GOArt's research from 2000 to the present has seen a dynamic development in two main directions. Materials research has expanded via three major EU projects exploring questions that grew out of NGORP. Secondly, GOArt has been developing tools and methods within the field of cultural heritage preservation.
Since 1995, GOArt has strategically invested in collecting literature relevant for our research projects. The collection (an institutional reference library) contains about 4450 books, and 350 other items (scores, CDs, microfilms).
To register and for more information, please email: adminpipeworks@gmail.com