Music and Materialisms : A Free One-day Conference

Saturday 23rd February 2019, Kingston
Visconti Studio, Kingston University, United Kingdom
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Eric Clarke (University of Oxford)
Deadline for Proposals : 10 December 2018
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A full version of the call, including detailed submission instructions can be read online. 

This transhistorical conference seeks to draw together scholars interested in using such frameworks to challenge existent ontologies of sound and sound-making. The conference organisers are particularly interested in contributions relating to music and materialism as relating to the following themes:

• Power: Material inscriptions of power; The foregrounding or loss of questions about power/inequalities in different materialist approaches; Politics of making; feminist and queer materialisms;
• Bodies: The body in performance and reception; The place of the senses (beyond hearing); Materiality of performative acts; Explorations of bodies/genders in performance; Embodiment and materiality limits; Touch;
• Notation: Role of the score as a “script” for performance; Material indeterminacy; Participatory music-making and politics of performance; The score as a material object;
• Histories: The history of material objects; Historical dimensions of materialist theories themselves - why materialisms, and why now? Is it possible to conceive of history without a place for materiality?;
• Culture: Organology; Museology; Curatorial practices; Analysis of physical objects and social meanings; Mediation of material objects in practices of production; Dissemination; Consumption; Simulation; Computation;
• Ontology: Beyond representationism; Non-repeatability; Actuality vs. nothingness; Post-sapien/post-humanism; Flux;

The conference organisers welcome proposals for contributions in a variety of formats. Papers (20 minutes), artistic reports, performances, lecture-recitals, and interactive demonstrations (along with other formats of the proposer’s devising) are all welcome.

Please direct all enquiries to musicandmaterialism -at- gmail.com

Prof. Isabella van Elferen, Kingston University
Dr Matthew Sergeant, Bath Spa University
Dr Samuel Wilson, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Conference Organisers

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