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)