Conference Schedule

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            20^th-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 19^th 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