Reconsidering Music, Technology, and Gender:

 A Symposium at UCLA 

January 27th, 2024, Lani Hall in the Schoenberg Building, UCLA

Co-organizers: Catherine Provenzano and Lily Shababi

Keynote: Angélica Negrón  

Tentative Schedule 

8:30am: Light opening refreshments and remarks

9-10:30am: Online circulations and emerging technologies  

Chair: Catherine Provenzano

Natalia Merlano Gomez, Mujeres en la Música Contemporánea. An experience during the pandemic 

Molly McLennan, From a different perspective: How Aotearoa's LGBQT*, Takatāpui, and MVPFAFF Music Communities have employed the technologies of music streaming platforms 

Ingeborg Dalheim, «If no-one knows who wrote this art song, does it even exist?» Imagining Norwegian Early 20th Century Classical Singing

10:45am-12:15pm: Popular media representations of gendered play 

Chair: Candace Hansen

Ashley Dao, “There’s a Kind of Hush”: Bootleg Aesthetics, Erotics of Empathy, & Grain in Todd Haynes’s Superstar (1987)

Christine Capetola, “U.S. Girls, FKA twigs, and the Warped Call to Women’s Work” 

Pau Aguilera Martínez and Silvia Martinez Garcia, “Luna Ki’s “performance of vulnerability”: defying the binary through voice technologies” 

12:15-1:30pm: Lunch Break

1:30-3:00pm: Real-time, interactive music making, compositions and performances 

Chair: Lily Shababi

Alexandria Smith, “Hearing Vision” 

Oliver Brown, “Interactivity as Improvisation” 

Chieh Huang, “​​Indigeneity and Computer Music in the Anthropocene” 

3:15-4:45pm: Instruments and recording studio practices 

Chair: Ashley Dao

Steve Waksman, “Gender and the New Guitarscape: A Study of Two Guitarists” 

Candace Hansen, “Analog Technologies of Deviance: Queer Drumming as Rhythmic Rupture” 

Bethany Younge and Seth Cluett, “Without a Technical Bone in My Body: Critical Strategies for Inclusive and Accessible Technical Studio Design” 

4:45p-5:30: Break 

Light refreshments provided 

5:30-7p: 7th Annual Robert U. Nelson Lecture: Angélica Negrón

Hosted by the Center for Musical Humanities