Virtual Symposium
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"The Organology of Affect: Post-War North American Masculinity and the Making of the Pedal Steel Guitar" Daniel Neill
Daniel Neill is PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research is inspired by his experiences as a professional drummer, amateur pedal steel guitarist, and modular synthesizer enthusiast.
RoundTable1080.mov"Feminist Hacking, a methodology, a course, a practice" Sofy Yuditskaya, Jess Rowland, Meg Schedel
Formerly known as Bunker, EMKVLT consists of Sofya Yuditskaya, Margaret Schedel and Jess Rowland. They are a regular fixture on the New York City improvisation scene, with performances at H0L0, Harvestworks, Improvisation Summit, EIS, Putty's Coronation, NYU, Stony Brook, SummerCamp, Country Club and more. Individually the musicians have internationally recognized careers; EMKVLTis the intersection of our interests and identities. EMKVLT functions as the core of our open ensemble, The International Witch Collective.
"Monetized Misrecognitions: Alex Hefner, Cross-Genre Reaction Videos, and Deffered Expertise" Florian Walch
Florian Walch is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. in Music History and Theory in 2023 with the dissertation “Extreme Metal Across the Digital Divide: Music, Technology, Genre.” His research focuses on theories of genre and technology in popular music, with further interests being psychoanalysis, critical theory, and the theory of musical analysis more broadly. Currently, he is working on a comparative study of how metal, hip-hop, and electronic dance music resolved conflicts between their existing commitments and the analog-digital transition by codifying new musical subgenres.