THURSDAY, MAY 11

Registration and Opening Reception [12:00pm – 1:30pm, Music Building]

Laws, Patents, and Musical Notation [1:45pm – 3:15pm, Room 9]

  • Peter McMurray, “Is Beatboxing Haram? On the Interface of Mouths, Beats, and Islamic Law in the Digital Age”
  • Ginger Dellenbaugh, “Interfaces for Specific Cases: Music Notation Patents of the USPTO”
  • Matthew Mendez, “Fiduciary Media: On Music’s Contractual Organologies”

Transhistorical / Intercultural Soundscapes [1:45pm – 3:45pm, Room 6]

  • Winnie W.C. Lai, “Soundwalking Hong Kong, Now and Then: Infrastructural Acoustic vs Counter-infrastructural Acoustics”
  • Fanyi Faye Ma, “Listening to 静: Political Affect and Remembrance in 2022 Shanghai Covid Lockdown”
  • Ravi Krishnaswami, “Sympathetic Strings: The Sitar in the Western Imagination”
  • Luke Riedlinger, “Disrupting Orchestral-ness in Ornette Coleman’s Skies of America

Workshop: Networked Modular Performance [1:45pm – 3:15pm, Holden Chapel]

  • Matthew Davidson and Berklee Networked Modular Ensemble

Digital Instrumentality and Automation [4:00pm – 5:00pm, Room 9]

  • Daniele Shlomit Sofer, “Reason and Measurement in Automated Music Analysis”
  • Andrew McPherson, “Digital Musical Instrument Design as Critical Engineering Practice” 

Workshop: Performing Sonic and Instrumental Agencies [3:30pm – 5:00pm, Holden Chapel]

  • Erik DeLuca, “​​Dispossessed Sound”
  • Jack Armitage, “Agentology for Organology: Cyber-, Bio-, and Ecosemiotic Perspectives on Instrumental Agency”
  • Max Schaffer, “lulu10tacles: Diving to the Dark Depths of Monstrous Embodiments in the Post-Internet”

Reinterpreting Historical Interfaces [4:00pm – 5:00pm, Room 6]

  • Theodora Serbanescu-Martin, “Henri Herz’s Dactylion & the Prosthetics of Nineteenth-Century Pianism”
  • Joti Rockwell, “Plucked on Bach: Studying the Instrumental Idioms of the BMG Family”

KEYNOTE 1: Instruments [5:30pm – 6:30pm, Yenching Auditorium]

  • Emily Dolan, “On the Edges of Technology”

>> Concert 1a [8:00pm – 11:00pm, Holden Chapel] 

  • Luciano Azzigotti and Jack Adler-McKean, Incursion (2023) for tuba and electroacoustic resonators
  • Luhee Hyunkyung Shin, Nuk (2023) for Contrabass and Live Electronics
  • Kasey Pocius and Tommy Davis, eTu{d,b}e (2022) with spatialized improvising agents
  • Quentin Lauvray (w/ Tommy Davis), Enfant, apprenez-nous à parler (2022) for eTube and live electronics
  • Ningxin Zhang, Kagemusha (2022) for Live Pipa and Electronics
  • Alma Laprida, Improvisation for marine trumpet and electronics
  • Alexander Ishov and Theocharis Papatrechas, Morphés I.5 (2023) for flutist, fixed media, live electronics, and spatialization

>> Concert 1b [9:00pm – 12:00am, Queen’s Head Pub] 

  • DJ sets by faculty-artists and students of Harvard and Berklee College TBD.

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