Interdisciplinary Music Research Conference

13 October 2007 - Roehampton University

A provisional programme and abstracts for this Interdisciplinary Music Research Conference are now available at http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/researchcentres/cimr/conferencesandevents/index.html

If you wish to register for this conference please cont

Interdisciplinary Music Research Conference 13th October 2007

Centre for Interdisciplinary Music Research (CIMR) Music Department, Roehampton University

To celebrate the opening of CIMR, Roehampton University’s music department is hosting a one-day conference based around the central themes of the centre. The themes are diverse; interdisciplinary is taken in its broadest meaning.

Provisional Programme

10.00 am Coffee and Registration

10.30 am Welcome and an Introduction to the Centre for Interdisciplinary Music Research

Dr. Barley Norton

b.norton@roehampton.ac.uk

10.45 am Key Note 1: Alejo Carpentier: Music and Magic Realism

Dr. Caroline Rae (Cardiff University)

Chair: Dr. Helen Julia Minors

rae@cardiff.ac.uk

11.30 am Paper Session

Chair: Dr. Maria Paraskevopoulou

Technical Support: Dr. Alan Stones

Geoffrey Cox (The University of Huddersfield) and Keith Marley (Liverpool John Moores University).

g.m.cox@huddersfield.ac.uk

Cider Makers: an exploration of the relationship between sound and image within documentary filmmaking.

Carlo Cenciarelli (King’s College, London)

carlo.cenciarelli@googlemail.com, carlo.cenciarelli@kcl.ac.uk

A Moment of Transcendence?: Listening to the Goldberg Variations in The Silence (1963)

Dylan Robinson (Sussex University)

d.w.robinson@sussex.ac.uk

Performative and Visual Musicology

1.00 pm Lunch

2.00 pm Performance-Discussion Session

Chair: Dr. Helen Julia Minors

This session will consist of an introduction to both works, performance, and then an open discussion regarding the issues raised, allowing the artists and delegates the opportunity to explore the issues raised in this session and to raise questions.

Dr. Alan Stones (Roehampton University)

a.stones@roehampton.ac.uk, http://www.alanstones.net/

An audio-visual presentation: composition for dance, ‘Shade’ made in collaboration with the film-maker/choreographer Ben Wright.

Adam Greig (Lancaster University)

a.greig2@lancaster.ac.uk

Man vs. Machine: An audio-visual interpretation of Frederic Rzewski’s Winsboro Cotton Mill Blues (1979)

3.00 pm Coffee

3.30 pm Key Note 2: Film and the Musical Icon Chair: Dr. Barley Norton

Professor Michael Chanan (Roehampton University)

m.chanan@roehampton.ac.uk

4.00 pm Plenary:

Chair: Dr. Barley Norton

The future of interdisciplinary research

Panel: Professor Stephanie Jordan (Roehampton University), Dr. Helen Julia Minors (Roehampton University) and Dr. Maria Paraskevopoulou (Roehampton University), who will each issue a short statement regarding interdisciplinary research in the aim of stimulating discussion, joined by Professor Michael Chanan and Dr. Caroline Rae.

4.45 pm Expected close of the conference

The conference committee is lead by the first president for the centre, Dr. Barley Norton, along with centre members Dr. Helen Julia Minors and Dr. Alan Stones.

For queries or information about this event please contact Dr. Helen Julia Minors, h.minors@roehampton.ac.uk or on 020 8392 3420

or

Consult are webpages (which will be updated progressively with the schedule, abstracts and booking form) http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/researchcentres/cimr/index.html

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