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FRIDAY, MAY 12
Coffee and Pastries [8:30am – 9:15am, department lounge]
Edu Meneses and Thomas Piquet
Katja Heldt, “Women at European Studios for Electroacoustic Music in the Early 1950s – A Feministic Reading of the Studio as Space”
Kelli Smith-Biwer, ““I Want My Stuff Really Separate”: Modular Masculinity and U.S. Midcentury Hi-Fi Culture”
Erik Broess, “Toneful Hands & Nimble Fingers: Gender, Factory Labor, and the Mythology of Builder-Signed Amplifiers from Fender’s “Tweed” Era, 1948-1960”
Michael Dekovich, “A Timeline of Labor Arbitrage in the Electric Guitar Industry”
Abigail Byrd, “Craft or Commodity? Unearthing the Impact of the String Instrument Industry”
Stephan Hammel, “The Recorder in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
Daedelus, Rachel Rome, Eran Egozy, and Ramon Castillo
Elena Razlogova, “Freeform Radio Station as a Musical Instrument”
Jack McNeill, “The Nightclub as Instrument: Performing Club Culture in Electroacoustic Composition”
Robert Strachan, “Eurorack: Technology, Materiality and the Virtual in Contemporary Modular Synthesizer Culture”
Shanti Nachtergaele, “Sociomaterial Constructions of the Virtuoso: D. Dragonetti and G. Bottesini”
Theresa Coffey, “Music Mediation as Interface for Artistic Identity”
Jiryis Ballan, “Unearthing the Latent Sounds of the Buzuq: An Expedition Through the Synthesis Processes from Instrument Sound Board to Virtual Instrument.”
Workshop: EMKVLT [1:00pm – 5:00pm, Holden Chapel]
Margaret Schedel, Sofya Yuditskaya, Jess Rowland, Susie Green, and Alyssa Wixson
Patricia Alessandrini, Hans Kretz, and Sophia Alexandersson
Christina Dörfling, “Switched and Wired: On the Making of Early Electronic Musical Instruments”
Lee Cannon-Brown, “The Global Turn, Historicized: Henry Cowell, the Rhythmicon, and Instruments of Global Music Theory”
Henry Burnam, “Gestalt Psychology and Erich von Hornbostel’s Instruments of Music Theory”
Robert Hasegawa, Alex Tibbitts, and Frédéric Le Bel
Xenia Benivolski, “The Sky’s Like a Bell—the Moon is its Tongue”
Bailey Hilgren, “A Gut-Wrenching Sound: Gut Strings, Warm Bodies, and Rehydrating Viscera”
Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn, “Sounding Decay: Instruments, Craft, and Material Agency”
Pablo Dodero, “Translanguaging in Mexican Electronic Music Instrument Designers”
Sarah McDonie, “The Whole Earth Catalog and Performance Art: Tools for Countercultural Living”
Mikkel Vad, “The ECM Record Label, Manfred Eicher, and Discourses of European Auteurism in Jazz Record Production”
Tara Rodgers and Jonathan Sterne, “Interface Writing Games: Aesthetics, Technics, Power”
>> Concert 2a [8:00pm – 10:00pm, Holden Chapel ]
Margaret Schedel, Sofya Yuditskaya, Jess Rowland, Susie Green, Alyssa Wixson and EMKVLT performers
Patrick Hartono, Ciung Wanara audiovisual performance
Cecilia Suhr, Humanity: From Survival to Revival (2022) for audiovisual performance
Sabe, Mental Feedback Loop (2023), an audiovisual performance using voice and no-input mixing
>> Concert 2b [9:00pm – 12:00am, Queen’s Head Pub ]
Daedelus
Dan Freeman
MIT FaMLE Laptop Ensemble, Algo-Rave Improvisation
Sebastian Adams, Stolen Music
Stefanie Egedy, BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S.)
Weilu Ge and Kelon Cen, FEED 3.0
Seah (Chelsea Heikes), Conduits of the Hydrosphere: Dinosaur Piss Runs Through Our Veins