Study Group Music and Media

Op zaterdag 4 en zondag 5 juli 2009 zal door de International Musicological Society de interdisciplinaire en multidisciplinaire studiegroep Music and Media gepresenteerd worden in een pre-conferentie, voorafgaand aan de gezamelijke conferentie van de IMS en de IAML te Amsterdam. De studiegroep heeft als doel de diverse aspecten die relevant zijn voor het thema "mediatzing music" te onderzoeken en te ontdekken.

Programma:

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM 1ST MAM MEETING, AMSTERDAM, ORGAN PARK

Saturday, July 4

9.00 Registration & Coffee
9.30 Prof.dr. Emile Wennekes (organizing committee), Word of welcome

9.40 Opening lecture
Prof. dr. Etty Mulder (Radbout University Nijmegen), “Exposante Fixe” by Peter Struycken, a
dynamic colour imagery for a composition by Pierre Boulez’

10.30-12.30
Session 1, chair Prof.dr. Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University)
-Marjaana Virtanen PhD (University of Turku and Academy of Finland), From rehearsals to
mediatized performance: musicians’ gestures and their changes
-Jannie Pranger MA (Utrecht University), Mediatized performance: the cultural and the natural
-Dr. Christopher Morris (University College Cork), Digital Diva: Opera on Video
-Prof. dr. Tomi Makela (Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg), Visualizing Virtuosity and
the idea of “Gesamtkunst

12.30-13.30 Lunch break

13.30-15.30 Session 2, prof. dr. Etty Mulder chair
-Dr. Jin Hyun Kim (University of Cologne): Interface technologies of mediatizing musical
experience
-Dr. Isabella van Elferen (Utrecht University), MP3 and the City: Magic Bubbles and Urban
Interfaces
-Matthias Pasdzierny (University of Arts Berlin), Mash-up, Songsmith & Co. Popular Music as a
Room of Play
-Melanie Frisch MA (Universitaet Bayreuth), Music in Videogames

15.30-16.00 tea and coffee break

16.00-18.00 Session 3: prof.dr. Sander van Maas, chair
-Dr. Martin Knust (Stockholms Universitet), European pre-filmic conceptions of mediatizing
music within a dramatic artwork
-Manuel Deniz Silva (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), The politics of “mechanized sound”:
depictions of inappropriate uses of music media in Portuguese early sound comedies
-Brent A. Ferguson (Texas State University), Film Music and Emotion: A Bibliographic Essay
-Dr. James Deaville (Carleton University, Ottawa), Sounding the War in Iraq: The Politics of
Television News Music

18.00-19.30 Dinner

Sunday, July 5

-9.30 Dr. Hans Fidom (Organ Park, Amsterdam), Mediatizing Music Machines
-10.00 Prof.dr. Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University), Mediatzing Music as program, Music &
Media as IMS Stdy Group

-10.30-12.30 Session 4, chair t.b.a.

-Dr. Angela Ida De Benedictus (Universiyu of Pavia, Cremona), History and Functions for Radio
in Italy: Radio Play and Radio Operas
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-Dr. Christophe Bennet (Orleans), The radio message: a typical opposition between erudite and
popular cultures in the music broadcasting in France in the thirties
-Prof. Michael Saffle (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg), ‘Mediatizing Music in the 1930s, 1940s and
1950s America’
-Prof.dr. Sander van Maas (Utrecht University & University of Amsterdam), Mediation and
Phantasm: On the Musical Constitution of Listenership

12.30-13.30 Lunch break

13.30-15.00 Session 5, chair t.b.a.
-Rens Machielse (Utrecht School of Music & Technology), A model for dramatic coding through
film music
-Richard Brown (University of Southern California), “The Spirit Inside Each Object”: John Cage,
Oskar Fischinger, and the “Future of Music”
-Claudia Marisa Oliveira & Gilberto Bernardes (Superior School of Music and Performing Arts
of the Porto Polytechnic Institute), Sumbiosis: the Gesamtkunstwerk in the 21th Century.

15.00 Emile Wennekes, closing remarks

15.15-15.45 Prof. dr. Tilmann Seebass (President IMS), IMS and its Study Groups;
-Formal and festive launching of MaM

15.45-17.00 Reception