Conference Schedule

Friday, March 2

9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Breakfast and Registration

Conrad Prebys Music Center, Hallway Lounge

9:30 - 10:00 a.m. Opening Address by Sarah Hankins

Recital Hall (CPMC 127)

10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Session 1: Practice/Research

Recital Hall (CPMC 127)

  • Sophie Stévance and Serge Lacasse (Université Laval). Research-creation in music as an interdiscipline.
  • Will Saunders (Westminster University) and Anna Homler (performance artist and vocalist, Los Angeles). An influence for Harry Partch in devising queer compositionist approaches to collaborative performance practice.
  • Sam Topley (De Montfort University). Sound Art and Craft: Making and Playing Textile-Based Electronic Musical Instruments.

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Session 2: Audio/Vision

Orchestra Room (CPMC 136)

  • Viola Yip (New York University). “Non-Cochlear” Music: Light as expanded musical materials. (Installation on Saturday morning.)
  • Gust Burns (University of Washington). Liquid Perception: Thinking with Sounds and (Post-)Cinema Studies.
  • Anna Clock and Lauren Sankary. ‘I Could Turn You Inside Out’: The Radical Potential of Headphone Space in a Gendered Aurality. (Demonstration on Saturday morning.)

10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Installations

Experimental Theater (CPMC 122)

  • John Burnett (University of California San Diego). Splay.

Classroom (CPMC 367)

  • S. Mendelsohn (University of California San Diego). Security Chorus.

1:00 - 2:00 p. m. Break

2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Session 3: Space/Resistance (Kirstie Dorr, Chair)

Orchestra Room (CPMC 136)

  • Eugenia Siegel Conte (University of California Santa Barbara). Sounding Sacred: Reconstituting Secular Sonic Space through Chorality.
  • Audrey Amsellem (Columbia University). Noise of Silent Machines: A Case Study of LinkNYC.
  • Asher Tobin Chodos (University of California San Diego). The Blues Scale: Historical and Epistemological Considerations.

3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Session 4: After Humans (Michael Trigilio, Chair)

Recital Hall (CPMC 127)

  • Tobias Linnemann Ewé (University of British Columbia). Terror far subtler than the ear, or: How much alienation can one inhumanist take?!
  • Joel Rust (New York University). Voice, after the Anthropocene.
  • Julian Scordato (Conservatory of Brescia). Earth Song.

4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Session 5: Humans/Instruments (Amy Cimini, Chair)

Orchestra Room (CPMC 136)

  • Asha Tamirisa (Brown University). Logics and Rhetorics of Modular Interfaces in Electronic Sound.
  • Kevin Davis (University of Virginia). Instrumentality in the Expanded Field of Music Composition.
  • Etha Williams (Harvard University). La femme clavecin: Vitalist Materialism, Reproductive Labor, and Queer Musical Pleasure in the Late Eighteenth Century.

7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Keynote Performance

Experimental Theater (CPMC 122)

Clara Latham (Performer/Composer). Bertha the Mom and New Pope.


Saturday, March 3

9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Session 6: Gender/Sexuality (Sarah Hankins, Chair)

Orchestra Room (CPMC 136)

  • Max Silva (University of Chicago). Commas, Overtones, and Pain Play: Kinky Relationality in the Music of Georg Friedrich Haas.
  • Anthony Rasmussen (University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States). Acoustic Patriarchy: Hearing Gender Violence in Mexico City’s Public Spaces.
  • Alec MacIntyre (University of Pittsburgh/Seton Hill University). “Be Nice or Get Out”: Sonically Creating and Enforcing the Boundaries of Queer Space in Pittsburgh.

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Session 7: Traditions/Innovations (Wilfrido Terrazas, Chair)

Orchestra Room (CPMC 136)

  • Sean Colonna (Columbia University). Sonic Phenomenology in Duke Ellington’s Daybreak Express.
  • Audrey Slote (University of Minnesota). Categorize Me, I Defy Every Label: Janelle Monáe’s Blurring of Binaries and Vision of Utopian Freedom in The Electric Lady.
  • Otto Stuparitz (University of California, Los Angeles). The Indonesian Jazz Archive: Canonization, Curation, and Identity.

10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Installation and Demonstration

Experimental Theater (CPMC 122)

  • Viola Yip (New York University). “Non-Cochlear” Music: Light as expanded musical materials. (Paper on Friday morning.)

Classroom (CPMC 367)

  • Anna Clock and Lauren Sankary. ‘I Could Turn You Inside Out’: The Radical Potential of Headphone Space in a Gendered Aurality. (Paper on Friday morning.)

1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch

CPMC Front Courtyard

2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Keynote Address

Recital Hall (CPMC 127)

George Lewis (Columbia University). Black Liveness Matters: Karel Čapek meets Blind Tom

4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Roundtable

Recital Hall (CPMC 127)

David Borgo, Moderator

George Lewis, Clara Latham, Roshanak Kheshti, and David Kirsh, Panelists

7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Performance Session

Experimental Theater (CPMC 122)

  • Daniel Fishkin and Ensemble (University of California San Diego). Body Piece No. 2.
  • David Stout (University of North Texas). The Janus Switch.
  • Akiko Hatakeyama (University of Oregon). ち — Chi.
  • Jasper Sussman and Alexandria Smith (University of California San Diego). mother woke me (wake me).
  • Alexander Dupuis (Brown University). Loup-Garou.


(Subject to change in the event of scheduling difficulties)