ISGMA 21 Programme

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Monday, November 1st, 2021

1:00 pm ARRIVAL AND REGISTRATiON

2:00 ‒ 2:30 pm WELCOME (Klangwerkstatt)

Stefan Hagel, Lars-Christian Koch, Maurice Mengel, Dahlia Shehata

2:30 ‒ 4:00 pm 1ST SESSION: TRENDS IN MUSIC ARCHAEOLOGY (Klangwerkstatt)

Chair: Stefan Hagel

Fang Jianjun 方建军 (ONLINE) Experimental Restoration and Reconstruction in Music Archaeology (online)
José Pérez de Arce (ONLINE) Archeo-Musicology in South America: Goals, Resonance and Future (online)
Anna Gruszczyńska-Ziólkowska The Acoustic Space Beyond the Human Sound Horizon

4:00 ‒ 4:30 pm Coffee break

4:30 ‒ 6:00 pm 2ND SESSION: EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC ARCHAEOLOGY (Klangwerkstatt)
Chair: Arndt A. Both
Wang Zichu (ONLINE) The Development of Experimental Music Archaeology in China (online) André Schlauch Practical Experiment: Exploring the Differences of Sounds with Different
Bottoms on Beycesultan-type Clay-Drums Gjermund Kolltveit Palaeolithic Strings? Experimental Approaches

6:00 ‒ 7:00 pm POSTER PRESENTATIONS (ONLINE: Klangwerkstatt)

Chair: Maurice Mengel

Péng Xiǎoxī 彭小希 Dancing Image System of Ancient Asian Bronze Drums

Heidi Köpp The Very Earliest Music in Ancient Egypt from the 5th Millennium to the Middle of the 3rd Millennium BCLubos Chroustovsky Did they make them all in pottery? On the possible wooden drums in the Stone Age Europe
Ireneusz Czajka / Katarzyna Tatoń The Rattles from Szadek: Acoustic Research with the Use of Numerical Sound Reconstruction
Gjermund Kolltveit Norwegian Ringing Stones

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021

9:00 ‒ 10:30 am 1ST SESSION: INSTRUMENT STUDIES AEROPHONES AND IDEOPHONES (Klangwerkstatt)

Chair: Cajsa S. Lund

Susanne Münzel, Gabriele Dalferth, Wulf Hein, Barbara Spreer, Hannes Wiedmann, Anna Friederike Potengowski
Current Research on the Forty-Thousand Years Old Palaeolithic Wind Instruments of the Swabian Jura (SW-Germany)Marco Sciascia (ONLINE) An Egyptian Singlepipe with Two Thumb Holes Found in the Ruins of Panopolis in 1888 and Studied by Victor Loret Beate Maria Pomberger Metallic Idiophones between 800 BC and AD 800 in Central Europe – Their Function and Acoustic Influence in Daily Life

10:30 ‒ 11:00 am Coffee break

11:00 ‒ 12:30 am 2ND SESSION: INSTRUMENT STUDIES AEROPHONES (Klangwerkstatt)

Chair: Anna Gruszczyńska-Ziólkowska Christophe Vendries / Patrice Herbin (HALF ONLINE) The Discovery of a new Gallo-Roman Trumpet on the Forum of Bavay Raquel Jimenez Celtiberian Clay Trumpets (2nd - 1st c. BC): Between Celtic Europe and the MediterraneanMark Howell Pre-Columbian Maya Trumpets

12:30 am ‒ 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 ‒ 3:30 pm 3RD SESSION: INSTRUMENT MAKING ANCIENT AND MODERN (Klangwerkstatt)

Chair: Daniela Castaldo Sibylle Emerit / Susanna Schulz / Ricardo Eichmann Lost context: Challenges Facing Experimental Reconstruction of the Egyptian Angular Harp (Louvre Museum N 1441)
Chrēstos Terzēs Some Thoughts on the Structure and Function of the Megara auloi
Sylvain Perrot The Organization of Instrument Making Workshops in Ancient Greece: Written Sources and Archaeological Data

3:30 ‒ 4:00 pm Coffee break

4:00 ‒ 5:00 pm 4TH SESSION: INSTRUMENT STUDIES: AEROPHONES (Klangwerkstatt)

Chair: Raquel JimenezJoachim Schween / Thorsten Helmerking Casting Bronze Lurs: New Considerations on an Old ProblemDaniela Castaldo An Unusual Roman Brass Instrument from Voghenza (Ferrara, Italy)

5:00 ‒ 5:30 pm Coffee break

5:30 ‒ 6:30 pm 5TH SESSION: ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSICARCHAEOLOGY AND SOUND MAPPING (Klangwerkstatt)

Chair: Olga Sutkowska

Gloria London (/ Andreas Georgiades) (ONLINE)

Ethnoarchaeological Evidence of Cracked Pots Reused as Sound Enhancers in Cypriot Early 20th Century Churches

A. Adje Both

Teotihuacan Sound Mapping: Exploring the Sonic Sphere of the City of the Gods, Mexico

8:00 ‒ 10:00 pm PUBLIC CONCERT (Klangwerkstatt)

Hussien Mahmoud and Dahlia Shehata Egyptian Lutes
Nancy Thym and Njamy Sitson Harp playing techniques

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021

9:00 ‒ 10:30 am 1ST SESSION: INSTRUMENT STUDIES: ORGAN AND IDIOPHONES (Klangwerkstatt)

Chair: Andreas Haug

David Catalunya The 12th-Century Organ and Bell Carillon of the Nativity Church in Bethlehem

Lucy-Anne Taylor The Early Medieval Organ

Annemies Tamboer (ONLINE) Roman Iron Age Ceramic Rattles from The Netherlands: Sound Tools, Amulets, Votive Objects?

10:30 ‒ 11:00 am Coffee break

11:00 am ‒ 5:30 pm: WORKSHOPS and MUSEUM VISITS

Slot 1 Klangwerkstatt

Anna Friederike Potengowski, Wulf Hein, Barbara Spreer, Gabriele Dalferth, and Susanne C. Münzel
Reconstructions of Palaeolithic Melodic Wind Instruments – Variability of Shape, Sound and Performing Practice.
includes:

Gabriele Dalferth Physics of flute making - Parameters Causing Pitch Variability in Reconstructions.
Thomas Olesch Process of flute playing – physiological insights – 11 ways of sounding a tube.
Anna Friederike Potengowski, Barbara Spreer, Ruth Unterkofler - Four swan ulnae as templates of the mammoth ivory instrument from Geißenklösterle “GK3” with 4 different mouth pieces.
Michael Praxmarer Griffon vulture radius instrument from Hohle Fels “HF1” in 4 different reconstructions.
Maria Hackl, Veronika Kaudela Grubgraben-instrument (reindeer tibia bone) in different reconstructions.
Thomas Olesch Holunderholzflöte von Hagenau (Bronze Age) one single reconstruction in different ways of sounding.
Anna Friederike Potengowski Comparative study of 4 different ivory reconstructions of “GK3” under application of only one playing method.
Bernadette Käfer Sounds of the Stone Age: How to play different instruments, 20 years of retrospection.
Wulf Hein, Anna Friederike Potengowski “Tunes of tusks”: Mammoth ivory as raw material.
Wulf Hein, Anna Friederike Potengowski Problems of tightness of GK3: Glue – material mammoth ivory versus African elephant ivory.

Slot 2 Museum Island

Dahlia Shehata, Stefan Hagel
Accessing Museum Artefacts

includes:

- Ancient Near Eastern Whistles and Idiophones
- Altes Museum
- Neues Museum
- Science battle: Reconstructing the Ancient Greek Kithara with Special Guest Ralf Gehler
- Egyptian Harps and Lyres

6:00 ‒ 6:30 pm WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS (Klangwerkstatt)

Thursday, November 4th, 2021

9:00 ‒ 10:30 am 1ST SESSION: INSTRUMENT STUDIES AEROPHONES (Klangwerkstatt)

Chair: Dahlia Shehata

Reem Shakweer / Mohamed Maged / Abdulbasset Hatab Military and Processional Music in Ancient Egypt: Reconstructions of the Egyptian Metal Barrel Drum – Tutankhamun TrumpetOlga Sutkowska The Oxus and Meroë Auloi: Charting the Edges of the Hellenic Musical Culture Cajsa S. Lund About buzz disks and buzz bones – an ethno-musicarchaeological study

10:30 ‒ 11:00 am Coffee break

11:00 am ‒ 12:30 pm 2ND SESSION: INSTRUMENT STUDIES CHORDOPHONES (Klangwerkstatt)
Chair: Gjermund Kolltveit Felipe Aguirre Quintero (ONLINE) Physical, Iconographic and Symbolic Features of the Plectrum: Some Reflections on Sound Production in Ancient String InstrumentsGabriela Currie Steppe Harps and Shamans: Archaeological Context, Morphology, and FunctionWáng Xīdān 王希丹 (ONLINE) The study and reconstruction concept on the remains of plucked instruments unearthed from the Tomb of Princess Honghua in Wuwei, Gansu Province, China

12:30 ‒ 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 ‒ 3:30 pm 3RD SESSION: INSTRUMENT STUDIES IDEOPHONES (Klangwerkstatt)

Chair: Mark Howell Monika Ciura The Most Prestigious Maya Instrument. Investigation of rattles in the Maya Culture of the Classic PeriodRasha Shehata / Eman Elbably The Role of the Sistrum in Ancient Egypt: Hathor’s Sistrum: Reconstructing a Metal Sistrum at the Egyptian Museum

Christoph Louven The ’talempong batu’ Lithophone of Talang Anau (West Sumatra) and its Astonishing Tuning

3:30 ‒ 4:00 pm Coffee break

4:00 ‒ 5:30 pm 4TH SESSION: MUSIC IN ETHNOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES (Klangwerkstatt)

Chair: Gabriela Currie

James Lloyd (New) Materialism and the Music of Roman Britain D. Restani / D. Castaldo / S. Emerit / S. Perrot / Ch. Vendries / A. Vincent RIMAnt: A French-Italian Database of Remains of Ancient Musical Instruments Sam Mirelman (ONLINE) Ancient Assyrian Vocal Technique in Ethno-Archaeological Perspective

5:30 ‒ 5:45 pm Short break

5:45 ‒ 6:45 pm 5TH SESSION: SOUNDSCAPES AND SOUND ARCHAEOLOGY (Klangwerkstatt)

Chair: Maurice Mengel

Jutta Günther / Florian Leitmeir Reconstructing Roman Soundscapes: Music and Sound(s) in Urban Spaces

Rupert Till (ONLINE) Digital Phenomenology in Sound Archaeology

8:00 ‒ 10:00 pm EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SESSION OF CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS (Klangwerkstatt)

Friday, November 5th, 2021

9:00 ‒ 9:45 am ISGMA General Meeting (Klangwerkstatt)

09:45 ‒ 10:00 am Short Coffee break

10:00 ‒ 11:30 am 1ST SESSION: FINDS AND EXPERIMENTAL SOUND INVESTIGATIONS (Klangwerkstatt)

Chair: Ricardo Eichmann

Fang Xueyang (ONLINE)

The Soundscape in Prehistoric China: An Ethnographic Analogy on Musical Instruments Found in Taosi Cemetery

Riitta Rainio / Kristiina Mannermaa (ONLINE)Prehistoric Pendants as Instigators of Sound and Body Movements: Traceological Analysis of the Eurasian Elk (Alces) Incisors from Hunter- Gatherer Burials, Northeast Europe, circa 8200 cal. BP Dorota Popławska / Jerzy Sikora (ONLINE)A Medieval Key for Tuning String Instruments from Ostrowite in Eastern Pomerania (Poland)

11:30 ‒ 12:00 am Coffee break

12:00 ‒ 1:30 pm 2nd SESSION: ICONOGRAPHY (Klangwerkstatt)

Chair: Lars-Christian Koch Ingrid Furniss (ONLINE) 'Chinese' Lutes in the Shosoin Collection of Nara, Japan: A Case Study of the Trade of Instruments, Materials, and IconographyAngeliki Liveri (ONLINE) Playing a Musical Instrument in Classical Athens. Representations on Red-Figure Vases Fabio Vergana Cerqueira (ONLINE)The ‘Apulian Sistrum’ on the Italiote Vase-Painting: Searching Contexts of Musical Performance (4th century B.C.)

1:30 ‒ 2:30 pm Lunch

2:30 ‒ 4:00 pm HUMBOLDT FORUM TOUR

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