Event overview
"For twenty five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the works is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible". (Jacques Attali
This week sees the last Music Graduate Forum of term 2. For this final event before the break the Graduate Forum, in collaboration with the Unit for Sound Practice Research, will be hosting a special interdisciplinary panel on music. Drawing on some of Goldsmiths very own research community the panel will include Marianne Franklin (Media and Communications), Atau Tanaka (Computing), Mark Harris (Art) and John Drever (Music). Each speaker will discuss some of their research concerns that intersect with music and these short presentation will then be followed by a Q&A and open discussion.
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This interdisciplinary panel – with academics and practitioners from the departments of Art, Computing Media and Communications, and Music - engages with the notion of music as a broader epistemological concern and provides an opportunity for engagement with sound and music across disciplines. How do we engage with the sounds of our social, cultural and physical environments? Is there validity to disciplinary ownership? How do we perceive and engage with sound and music from our different ontological perspectives? Goldsmiths is known for its creative diversity and critical engagement with the arts and technology. This panel then is an opportunity to hear from academics and practitioners from a range disciplines as they discuss and engage with questions of both sameness and difference in relation to the boundaries of disciplinarity.
PANELISTS:
Marianna Franklin (Media & Communications): Marianne has a background in History, Music, and Politics she has held teaching and research positions in Humanities, Social Science, and Engineering faculties; the University of Auckland (NZ), University of Amsterdam (NL), University for Humanistics (NL), and Columbia University (USA).
A recipient of research funding from the Social Science Research Council (USA) and Ford Foundation, her past and current research addresses these developments from the following angles: digital publics; power, resistance and the Internet; ICTs for Development and Internet Governance debates; diasporas, everyday life, and the web; transnational social movements online and on the ground; music, culture, and politics.
Co-Chair of the Internet Rights and Principles Dynamic Coalition at the UN Internet Governance Forum, she has also held office in other international associations; on the International Communications Section Executive and as Chair of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association.
Atau Tanaka (Computing): Atau bridges the fields of media art, experimental music, and research. He worked at IRCAM, was Artistic Ambassador for Apple France, has been researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, and was an Artistic Co-Director of STEIM in Amsterdam. Atau creates sensor-based musical instruments for performance, and is known for his work with biosignal interfaces. He seeks to harness collective musical creativity in mobile environments, seeking out the continued place of the artist in democratized digital forms. He is currently Professor of Media Computing at Goldsmiths.
Mark Harris (Art): Mark's work deals concepts and visual languages of intoxication, in particular on LSD experiences in 1960s and 70s experimental film and poetry. Mark has also written on histories of artist-run spaces, and on numerous contemporary artists. One focus of his studio work concerns the representations and documentation of historic utopian communities. In his video work he is also interested in experimental sound, noise and silence, and on the performance of popular music. A significant part of his practice has focused on reappraising the syntax of gestural abstract painting.
John Drever (Music): John is a Senior Lecturer in Composition at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he leads the Unit for Sound Practice Research (SPR). He studied Music at the University of Wales, Bangor (1992-95), followed by an MMus study in Electroacoustic Music Composition at the University of East Anglia (1995-6). In 2001 he was awarded a PhD from Dartington College of Arts, for a programme of research titled 'Phonographies: Practical and Theoretical Explorations into Composing with Disembodied Sound'. During 2003-04 he was an ACE/AHRB Arts and Science Research Fellow with Centre for Computational Creativity, City University exploring 'electronic music performance interfaces that learn from their users'. He was awarded a Diploma in Acoustics and Noise Control from the Institute of Acoustics in 2012, with specialist modules in Building Acoustics and Environmental Noise, becoming a full member of the Institute of Acoustics in 2013.
All welcome, not just for graduates!
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 25 Mar 2014 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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