Schedule

On view at the Avery Fisher Center, Bobst Library (Opening Hours: Friday 9am-6:30pm; Saturday 12:00pm-7:30pm):

Catalina Jordan Alvarez (Antioch College), “Sounded Springs” (Screen at the entrance - Film)

Christian Groothuizen (University of East London), “Resonant Objects: Communicating Vessels” (Exhibition Space - Sculptures)

Jake Nussbaum (University of Pennsylvania), “What The Garden Belongs To” (AV Room - Installation)

Dana Elkis (New York University), “Sirens” (AV Room - Installation)

Katya Rozanova, Nire, and Camilla Padgitt-Coles, “Hole” (AV Room - Installation)

Leila Adu-Gilmore, “Embodied Listening: Field Recordings of Sites of Listening in Accra” (AV Room - Installation)

For experiencing throughout conference at the Silver Center:

Daniel Fishkin, “Solar Sounds” (Silver 120)

8:30am - 4:30pm Registration (Silver 120)

8:30am - 10:00am Breakfast available (Silver 120)

10:00am - 10:30am Introduction by David Samuels (Silver 320)

10:30am - 12:00nn Panel 1: Spaces of Performance (Brigid Cohen, chair) (Silver 320)

Amanda L. Scherbenske (The New School), “Emplacing Race in New York's Experimental-Avant-Garde Juncture”

Tom Wetmore (Columbia University), “Listening as Relational Ontology in Basement Jazz Club”

Leila Adu-Gilmore (New York University), “Reimagined Spaces: Grassroots and Government Practices in Electronic Music in Accra”

12:00nn - 1:30pm Lunch break (not provided)

1:30pm - 3:00pm Panel 2: Relational Artists (Maureen Mahon, chair) (Silver 320)

Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis (New York City Department of Education), “Freetown Soundscape: Chosan’s Love Song to Sierra Leone”

Cynthia Citlallin Delgado (New York University), “dissident trans-its: Mexico City and the Performances of la Bruja in Texcoco”

Michael Palmese (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), “Notes from the Underground: Exploring Bay Area Musical Culture Through the Berkeley Barb (1965-80)”

3:15pm - 4:45pm Panel 3: Atmosphere and Time in Public Space (J. Martin Daughtry, chair) (Silver 320)

Max Jack (Humboldt University in Berlin), “‘If We Don't Sing, Then They've Won!’ Atmosphere and the Governance of Public Affects at Football Club Union Berlin”

James Gabrillo (The New School), “Sounding Public Space in Manila’s Palengke”

Carlos Cuestas (CUNY Graduate Center), “Sonic Multi-Temporalities: Dislocating Memory and History through Live Performances in Mexico City's Centro Historico”

5:00pm - 7:00pm Sound Installations, Participatory Performance, and Reception (Avery Fisher Center, Bobst Library)

Christian Gentry and Rashin Fahandej (Emerson College), “A Father's Lullaby: Collaboration and Improvisation in Community-Driven and Site-specific Multimedia Art” (Immersion Room - Participatory Performance)

8:00pm - 10:00pm Performances (Silver 220)

Jean Carla Rodea, “Buscando a Marina/Looking for Marina”

Johann Diedrick (A Quiet Life) and Ethan Edwards (Nokia Bell Labs), “Cerulean Waters”

8:30am - 4:30pm Registration (Silver 120)

8:30am - 10:00am Breakfast available (Silver 120)

9:00am - 10:30am Panel 4: Political Structures of Sounding (Michael Beckerman, chair) (Silver 320)

Ksenia Mayorova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), “Sound and the City in Contemporary Russia: Enjoying Rights or Violating Borders”

Ian Copeland (Harvard University), “Listening to the Humanitarian City: Sound and Difference in Lilongwe, Malawi”

Yaprak Melike Uyar (Freie Universität Berlin), “DIY Under Authoritarian Politics: Indie Scene in Istanbul”

10:45am - 12:15pm Panel 5: Data, Surveillance, Biopolitics (Suzanne Cusick, chair) (Silver 320)

Audrey Amsellem (Columbia University), “The Noise of Silent Machines: A Case Study of LinkNYC”

William Hallett, Erin Cooney/Nire (NYU), and Hannah Tardie, “Bird2Vec and Multiplexed Re-soundings of Death”

Andy McGraw (University of Richmond), “Mapping Sonic and Affective Geographies in Richmond Virginia”

12:30pm - 1:00pm Soundwalk Presentation (Room TBD)

Dafna Naphtali, “Walkie Talkie Dream Angles: Audio-Augmented Soundwalk in Washington Square Park”

12:45pm - 2:00pm Lunch (provided) (Silver 120)

2:00pm - 3:30pm Panel 6: Urban Transformations (Christine Dang, chair) (Silver 320)

Ben Assiter (Goldsmiths, University of London), “From Bagley’s to Spiritland: Audiophile Bars and the Gentrification of Listening”

Austin T. Richey (Eastman School of Music), “Re-Sounding Detroit: Sonic Afro-Modernity in the North End Neighborhood”

Elizabeth Bynum (University of Pennsylvania), “Of Neighbors and Nightclubs: Sound and Urban Relations in Mexico City”

4:00pm - 5:30pm Keynote by Steven Feld, “Relational Borders: Cartographies of Urban (Un)sounding”

With introduction by Bambi Schieffelin (Silver 207)

8:30pm After-Party with jm229, DJ RGRB, and DJ Seal Child (Silver 220)