SIMM-POSIUM 2 — Social Impact of Making Music. London, Milton Court — Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 7–8 July 2017
SIMM-POSIUM 2 — Social Impact of Making Music. London, Milton Court — Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 7–8 July 2017

Summary/Abstract: The second symposium about social impact of making music was organized by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London (and took place in its well equipped theatre), with the support of the Ghent University,2 the Institute of Musical Research from London and the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research. The platform of SIMM-posia was developed by Lukas Pairon (the director of several music organizations) in 2015 in Belgium; it is generally concerned with the potential impact of the act of learning and making music and it gathers international interdisciplinary scholars, practitioners of diversified music projects in social work and policymakers. Their plan is to establish the SIMM research center with seminars in 2017 and the next conference is announced to be in Porto in 2019. A huge role in organization of this successful event was played by John Sloboda, a distinguished professor and researcher in psychology of music, dealing with the effects of war on civilian populations of today. Almost one hundred participants from around twenty countries (although the majority of them from the United Kingdom) discussed very directly and bravely the crucial topics – who and how uses music to impact the world, and can music be an effective tool at all?

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