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Sonic Circulations Conference Programme
PDF finalised conference programme (with abstracts) available here.
All sessions will take place at King’s College, London, Strand Campus, unless otherwise noted.
| Monday 24 June | |
| 9:45 | REGISTRATION, TEA/COFFEE |
| 10:15-10.30 | INTRODUCTIONS |
| 10:30 | SESSION 1: The Politics of Song (Chair: Laura Tunbridge) |
| Vanessa Paloma Duncan-Elbaz (University of Cambridge): La Voz de mi Madre en la Mía: Recording Moroccan Women’s Sephardi Repertoire in the Interwar Period
John Gabriel (Hong Kong University): Topicality and Reportage in the Discourse of Radio Music Theater in Weimar Republic Germany |
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| 11:30-12:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 12:00 | SESSION 2: Genealogies and Reproduction (Chair: Flora Willson) |
| Peter Asimov (University of Cambridge): Comparative Philology and the Emergence of Musicology: Interdisciplinary Frictions in Fin-de-Siècle France
Alexander Cowan (Harvard University): The Mismeasure of Music: Eugenics, Marketing and the Science of Musical Ability |
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| 13:00-14:15 | LUNCH (provided) |
| 14:15 | SESSION 3: Space/Place (Chair: Peter McMurray) |
| Fiona Smyth (Trinity College, Dublin): From Delhi to Hastings in the 1920s: Controversy and Experiment in Architectural Acoustics
Gavin Williams (King’s College, London): Music on Demand and the Strait of Malacca William Fourie (Royal Holloway, University of London; Africa Open Institute): Music, Mining, and the Desolated Figure of African Modernity |
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| 15:45-16:15 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 16:15 | KEYNOTE: Gascia Ouzounian (University of Oxford), Sound and Music in Three Dimensions: Bell Telephone Laboratories and the Spectacular Demonstration of Stereophony
(Chair: Heather Wiebe) |
| 17:15 | DRINKS RECEPTION |
| 19:00 | DINNER (not included in conference fee) Pig and Goose Restaurant, 213 The Strand, Temple |
| Tuesday 25 June | |
| 9:30 | SESSION 4: Subjectivity and Mind (Chair: Laura Protano-Biggs) |
| Alexandra Kieffer (Rice University): Nature, Culture, Affect: Music and the Unconscious in Early Twentieth-Century France
Patrick Valiquet (University of Edinburgh): Relaxing the Musical Spirit: Ginette Martenot and Scientific Pacifism Joseph Pfender (New York University): The Bureaucratic Modern |
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| 11:00-11:30 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:30 | SESSION 5: War (Chair: Kate Guthrie) |
| Melanie Gudesblatt (University of California, Berkeley): Violent Sound: Opera as Trauma in 1919 Manhattan
Heather Wiebe (King’s College, London): Morale as Sonic Force: Listen to Britain and Total War Jacob Downs (University of Sheffield): Headphone Technologies and Psychological Warfare at the Advent of the Cold War: from Militarisation to Weaponisation |
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| 13:00-14:15 | LUNCH (provided) |
| 14:15 | SESSION 6: Musical Circuits (Chair: Deirdre Loughridge) |
| Jon Solomon (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Prometheus Charged: Electricity, Saint-Saëns, Scriabin, and the Classical (Greco-Roman) Tradition
Giles Masters (King’s College, London): Soviet Sounds, Modern Times?: The Iron Foundry and the ISCM (1930) Ted Gordon (Columbia University): Music in the Cybernetics Moment: Two Case Studies from the San Francisco Tape Music Center |
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| 15:45-16:15 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 16:15 | KEYNOTE: James Q. Davies (University of California, Berkeley): Bioethical Tech: Albert Schweitzer’s Climate-Proof Piano and the Colonial Trade in Life
(Chair: Arman Schwartz) |
| 17:15 | CONFERENCE RESPONSES: Gundula Kreuzer (Yale University) and John Tresch (The Warburg Institute, London)
(Chair: Emily MacGregor) |
| 18:00 | END |
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