Locations and Dislocations: An Ecomusicological Conversation
Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Princeton, NJ
All events in Cullen Center Room 1 unless otherwise indicated. The keynote speech and concert on Saturday afternoon are free and open to the public. Conference registration is required for all other events.
Friday, April 8
8:50am Welcome from Dean Matthew Shaftel
9:00am 20th-Century Composers
Chair: Matthew Shaftel, Westminster College of the Arts, Rider University
- Joseph Finkel (Arizona State Univeristy): The End of the Faustian Man and the Limits of Progress: John Cage’s United States Bicentennial Compositions and His Environmental Thought
- Elizabeth Martignetti (The Graduate Center, City University of New York): Des canyons dans les canyons: Sounding Territory
- Lars Helgert (Catholic University): The “Horst Wessel Lied” as Nazi Imagery and Displacement in Two Later Works by Lukas Foss
10:30am Break
10:50am Leah Stein (Leah Stein Dance): Bellow Falls (film)
Chair: Byron Au Yong, University of San Francisco
11:10am Sonic Vibrancy in the City
Chair: Byron Au Yong, University of San Francisco
- 60-minute workshop led by Steven Kemper (Rutgers University) and Wendy Hsu (Independent Scholar)
12:10pm Lunch on Campus / Posters by “Music and Ecology” Class (Cullen 2)
2:00pm American Communities
Chair: Rachel Mundy, Rutgers University, Newark
- Sharon Mirchandani (Westminster Choir College of Rider University): Ordinariness, Ongoingness: American Community in Musical Works by Brenda Hutchinson and Maria Panayotova
- Matthew DelCiampo (Florida State University): So Percussion, Princeton University, and Performing Where (we) Live
- Robert Fallon (Carnegie Mellon University): Mining Politics for Humanity: Strategies of Musical Environmentalism in Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields
- Katheryn Lawson (University of Iowa): Canaries, Chirps, and Thrushes: Closer Hearings of the Jazz Aviary
4:00pm Break
4:20pm Displacements and Disintegrations
Chair: Sharon Mirchandani, Westminster Choir College of Rider University
- Brandon Masterman (New York University): Feeling Disintegrated: A Queer Ecology of Harsh Noise Music and the Becoming-Queer Body
- Saesha Senger (University of Kentucky): Place, Space and Time in MC Solaar’s American Francophone
5:20pm End of Day
Saturday, April 9
8:00am Soundmind/Princeton at Princeton Cemetery
- 90-minute workshop by Adam Tinkle (Skidmore College)—on location if weather is good, on campus if weather is bad
10:00am Locations
Chair: James Deaville, Carleton University
- Andrew Colwell (Wesleyan University): Acoustic Feedbacks: Rethinking the Relationships between Place, Music and Ecology in a Mongolian Community
- Jessica Stearns (University of North Texas): Opera, Architecture and Place: The Regional Experience of the Santa Fe Opera Festival
11:00am Break
11:20am Listening
Chair: Ryan Taussig, Eastman School of Music
- Erik DeLuca (University of Virginia): Wolf Listeners
- James Deaville (Carleton University): The Well-Mannered Auditor: Listening in the Domestic Public Sphere of the 19th Century
- Otto Muller (Goddard University): Rural Noise
12:50pm Lunch on Campus
2:00pm Keynote Speech by Byron Au Yong (Bristol Chapel; open to the public)
Chair: Eric Hung, Westminster Choir College of Rider University
3:00pm Break
3:15pm Concert (Bristol Chapel; open to the public)
- Thomas Rex Beverly (Freelance Composer): Telepresent Storm: Rita (7′)
- Kristofer Bergstrom (Los Angeles Taiko Institute): Radiddlepa (7’)
- Lenka Morávková (University of California, Riverside): Glass Spilled Out from a Broken Bathtub (25’)
- Mia Theodoratus (Freelance composer): The Afterlife of Angels (15’)
- Works by Byron Au Yong (45’)
5:15pm Break
5:30pm Banquet at Hamilton House
Sunday, April 10
9:00am Sonic Placemaking
Chair: Kate Galloway, Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Henry Spiller (UC Davis): Sundanese Bamboo Music and the Landscape of West Java
- Sabine Feisst (Arizona State University): Sonic Placemaking in the American Southwest: The Listenn Project
- Jada Watson (U. of Ottawa): If They Blow a Hole in the Backbone: Sarah Harmer’s Campaign to Protect the Niagara Escarpment
10:30am Break
10:50am Lost and Found in the Urban Sound Maze: Improvisers on the Work-Place Continuum (Panel)
Chair: Aaron Jafferis, Independent Writer
- Ofer Gazit (University of California, Berkeley): Jazz, Terraza 7, and Immigrant Folk in Jackson Heights, Queens
- Whitney Slaten (Columbia University): Amplifying Jazz as Cultural Repatriation in Harlem: Jazzmobile and the Urban Soundscape
- Amanda Scherbenske (Montclair State University): Labors of Immateriality and Solidarity in New York Experimental Music Venues
- Respondent: Matthew Goodheart (Columbia University)
12:50pm Lunch (On Campus)
1:30pm Technology
Chair: Justin Burton, Rider University
- Ray Lustig (Freelance Composer): Latency Canons: Challenges as Inspiration in Remote Internet Musical Connection (lecture-rectial)
- Aaron Pettigrew (University of British Columbia): Interrogating Displacement and Musical Change in Southwestern Timor-Leste
- Nick Bazzano (New York University): On Holding On-Hold: Speculative Tactics toward an Accelerationist Listening Practice
- Michael Gardiner (University of Mississippi): Synthetic Climates and the (re)Presentation of Japanese Ecology
3:30pm Conference Reflections from the Program Committee
- Justin Burton (Rider University)
- Kate Galloway (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
- Eric Hung (Westminster Choir College of Rider University)
- Rachel Mundy (Rutgers University, Newark)
- Ryan Taussig (Eastman School of Music)
4:00pm Conference Ends