CRASSH

Music, Sound and Reconfiguration of Public and Private Space

Friday, 18 April 2008 to Saturday, 19 April 2008
Location: CRASSH

Music, Sound and the Reconfiguration of Public and Private Space

Programme

Location : CRASSH Date : 18-19 APRIL 2008

Friday 18 April
9.30 - 10.00	Registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.15	Welcome and Introduction Georgina Born and Tom Rice (University of Cambridge)
10.15 - 12.15	Urban and Mobile Music / Sound Chair: Steven Connor (Birkbeck College) Discussant: Byron Dueck (Open University) Michael Bull (University of Sussex) Seamless, Fine Tuned and In Control?: Investigating the World of iPod Users John Drever (Goldsmiths’ College, London) Ochlophonics Hong Kong: everyday sound practices within the crowd Sumanth Gopinath (University of Minnesota) and Jason Stanyek (New York University) Digital auditory cultures and the problem of “mobile music”
12.15 - 13.15	Lunch
13.15 - 15.15	Sounding and Sensing Musical Space Chair: Roger Parker (King’s College London) Discussant: Nikolaus Bacht (University of Cambridge) Eric Clarke (University of Oxford) An ecological perspective on music, sound and space Martin Stokes (University of Oxford) Sound, space, sensorium: an ethnomusicological perspective David Toop (University of London) Hauntings and soundings of “The Eavesdropper”
15..15 - 15.45	Tea Break
15.45 - 17.15	Designing Mediated Music / Sound Chair: Ian Cross (University of Cambridge) Discussant: Steven Connor Jonathan Sterne (McGill University) MP3 and mapping the mind’s interior Georgina Born On the privatization and publicisation of music
17.15 - 17.30	Break and walk to Mill Lane Lecture Rooms
17.30 - 18.30	The Screen Media and Cultures Keynote Lecture James Lastra (University of Chicago) Sound design in the longue durée
18.30	Reception at CRASSH
19.30	Concert at Kettle’s Yard Sound art responding to the conference themes from John Levack Drever, Brandon Labelle, John Wynne and Cedric Maridet

Saturday 19 April
9.00 - 11.00	Music, Sound and the Everyday Chair: Annahid Kassabian (University of Liverpool) Discussant: George Revill (Open University) Jo Tacchi (University of Queensland) Affective rhythms Nicola Dibben and Anneli Beronius Haake (University of Sheffield) The experience of music in office-based workplace settings Tom Rice (University of Cambridge) Broadcasting the body: the private made public in a London hospital
11.00 - 11.15	Coffee Break
11.15 - 13.15	Music, Identity and Othering, and the Politics of Space Chair: Martin Clayton (Open University) Discussant: Ben Walton (University of Cambridge) Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago) Music inside out: sounding the sacred in a post-secular Europe Nick Cook (Royal Holloway, University of London) Classical music and the politics of space Ruth F. Davis (University of Cambridge) Music and the re-configuration of sacred space: the pilgrimage to Djerba, Tunisia
13.15 - 14.15	Lunch
14.15-16.15	Music: Torture, Healing and Love Chair: John Deathridge (Kings College London) Discussant: Ben Etherington (University of Cambridge) Suzanne Cusick (New York University) “You are in a place … out of the world”: sound and music in the detention camps of “the global war on terror” Tia DeNora (University of Exeter) Music space as healing space: community music therapy and the negotiation of identity in a mental health centre Richard Middleton (University of Newcastle) Faith, hope and the hope of love: on fidelity in the era of phonographic technology
16.15 - 16.45	Tea Break
16.45 - 17.30	Conclusion and Final Discussion Chair: Georgina Born
19.30	Conference dinner at King’s College, the Saltmarsh Rooms