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FRIDAY, MAY 12

Coffee and Pastries [8:30am – 9:15am, department lounge]

Workshop: Open-source and Networking Tools to Deploy Ephemeral Immersive Spaces [9:15am – 10:45am, room 9]

  • Edu Meneses and Thomas Piquet

Gendered Spaces in the History of Music Technology [9:15am – 10:45am, room 6]

  • 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”

Materialist Organology [9:15am – 10:45am, room 4]

  • 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” 

Panel Discussion: Music Pedagogy in the Age of Digital Instruments [11:00am – 12:30pm, room 9]

  • Daedelus, Rachel Rome, Eran Egozy, and Ramon Castillo

Virtual Instruments and Collective Sonic (Sub)Cultures [11:00am – 12:30pm, room 6]

  • 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”

Performance-based Studies of Virtuosity and Artistic Identity [11:00am – 12:30pm, room 4]

  • 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

Panel Discussion: Inclusive Co-Creation in and of Online Sonic Spaces [1:45pm – 3:15pm, room 9]

  • Patricia Alessandrini, Hans Kretz, and Sophia Alexandersson

Historical Instruments of Music and Science [1:45pm – 3:15pm, room 6]

  • 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” 

Workshop: The “Polymorphic Instrument” in Georgia Spiropoulos’s Roll… n’ Roll… n’ Roll for Harp and Live Electronics [2:45pm – 3:45pm, Paine Hall]

  • Robert Hasegawa, Alex Tibbitts, and Frédéric Le Bel

Elemental Media as Musical Culture [3:30pm – 5:00pm, room 9]

  • 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”

Mapping Networks of Audio-Technical Discourse [3:30pm – 5:00pm, room 6]

  • 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” 

Workshop: HYDRA Spatialization System [4:00pm – 5:00pm, Paine Hall]

  • Hans Tutschku

KEYNOTE 2: Interfaces [5:30pm – 6:30pm, Yenching Auditorium]

  • 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

Audio-Visual Installations [3 Days, Music Building]

  • 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