Schedule and program

There will be a designated window of time for participants to view installations each day, but participants are also welcome to explore the installations on their own at any time during the listed hours.

Both days

On view in Silver 120 (Friday, 8:30am – 5:00pm; Saturday, 8:30 – 1:45pm):

Elise Silvestri, “​​Resolve and Rebirth in Czechia Climate” 

Milan Reynolds, “Springtime in New York”: Data Sonification and Slow Violence During COVID

Logan Wilkinson, “​​Smaller, Again”

Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Human and Machine Nº1

Friday, October 4

On view in Silver 220 (Friday, 1:45pm – 5:00pm)

Shaagnik Mukherji, The Detritivores 

On view at the Avery Fisher Center, Bobst Library (Friday, 11:00pm – 5:00pm)

Kelsey Van Ert, “Great Grandmother’s School/Aanikoobijigan gikinoo'amaadiiwigamig”

Saturday, October 5

On view in Silver 218 (Saturday, 10:00am – 5:00pm)

SENAIDA, “The Plastic Brain: The Effects of Microplastics on Brain Function and Brainwave Activity” 

On view in Silver 318 (Saturday, 10:45am – 3:15pm)

Wu Wei, Michelle Binyan Xu, Yihao Wang, AI as Performer: Exploring Non-Human Agency in the Anthropocene

On view at Mercer Studio (Saturday, 11:00am – 3:30pm)

Kieun Song and Hamish Robb, “燒紙”

8:30am – 5:00pm Registration (Silver 120)

8:30am – 9:30am Breakfast and coffee (Silver 120)

9:30am – 9:45am Land Acknowledgment and Conference Welcome (Silver 320)

9:45am – 11:15am Panel 1: Material Metaphors (Silver 320, Chair: Martin Daughtry) 

Rachel Horner, “Finding What Is Lost: The Intangible Archive of València’s Falles Festival”

Maire Wilson, “Thin Walls, Thinner Skin: An Analysis of Decay and Sound within Paradise Rot”

Julia Peters, “The Sublime (Sound) Object of Repulsion: Theorizing the Sound Abject”

11:30am – 1:00pm Live Concert 1 (Silver 220)

Fabricio Watanay, Poem-Rite 5: “Flying Heads”

Victor Arul, Devoted Oboist

Metamyther, “Our Eroded Futures”

Erik Texter,  gervigreindarverur (“artificial intelligence beings”)

1:00pm – 2:00pm Lunch (catered lunch provided) (Silver 120)

2:00pm – 3:30pm Designated installation time (Silver 120, 220, Avery Fisher Center)

3:30pm – 5:00pm Panel 2: Lightning Talks (Silver 320, Chair: Cloe Gentile Reyes)

Kate Galloway, “Towards a Sound Studies of the Ruderal”

Aaliyah Weathers, “‘Losing the Recipes’ in Sound: Organology of the African Diasporic and Indigenous Americas”

Natalie Dusek, “Deteriorating Materialities: Technology, Failure and Queer Futurities in ‘The Disintegration Loops’”

Cheng Jin Koh, “Reimagining Southeast Asian Stories Through Composition”

Joyce Li Yue, “Algorithmic Bias and the Failure of Music Recommendation Systems: De/composing Digital Landscapes in the Music Industry”

Darcy Copeland, “On Music and Mushrooms: Sound and Mycelium as World Building Agents”

5:15pm – 6:45pm Keynote Lecture: Marisa Solomon (Silver 320)

“From Junk to Crunk: Ecological Punishment and the Sonic Experiments of Discarded Black Life”

6:45pm – 8:15pm Reception and DJ Set (Silver 220)

Juan Ferrer + Hector Llanquin,“Surrender”

8:30am – 2:00pm Registration (Silver 120)

8:30am – 9:00am Breakfast and coffee (Silver 120)

9:00am – 10:30am Panel 3: Multiscalar Ecologies of Breakdown (Silver 320, Chair: Joel Rust)

Bárbara Moreira da Silva, “Improvising the Gut Microbiome”

Ed Williams, “Decomposition Study: Nicola Vicentino and a Compost Pile of Queer Theory”

Kristen Graves, “(De)Composing Among the Discarded: The Multisensory Emergence of a Community”

10:45am – 12:15pm Panel 4: De/Composing Publics (Silver 320, Chair: Clifton Boyd)

Johan Silvy-Leligos Jurado, “Death or Spring: Sound and Movement in 19th Century Valencian Gunpowder Rituals” 

YuHao Chen, “Coming to Terms, Coming Apart: On Script and Sand”

Ty Bouque, “Unspeakable Spaces, Exquisite Pain: The Forms of Infection”

12:15pm – 1:45pm Lunch (catered lunch provided) (Silver 120) + designated installation time (Silver 120, 218, 318, and Mercer Studio)

1:45pm – 3:15pm Panel 5: Death and Hauntings (Silver 320, Chair: David Samuels)

Devanney Haruta, “Piano (de)composition and Instrumental Afterlife”

Romulo Moraes, “Metaphorology of Sampling”

Nam Do, “I know he’s gone… but he’s not forgotten, or The Haunting of El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz: The End of Man in Leon Thomas’ ‘Malcolm’s Gone’”

3:30pm – 5:00pm Keynote Performance: Emily Johnson (Silver 220)

“A Place to Gather Ideas”

5:15pm – 6:45pm Live Concert 2 (Silver 220)

Alyssa Wixson and Oliver George-Brown, Xylocyclos

Isaac Barzso, “Folding-time: Speculative (Re)Imagining as Electronic Music Performance Practice”

Camila Agosto, Scenes from The Memory of Water, Vol. II

Meoark: Michele Cheng & Hassan Estakhrian, “Foreign Earth”

6:45pm – 7:45pm Reception (Silver 220)