[ecrea] CFP Vocal Arts Symposium: June 13, Groz(njan , Croatia

>Call for Papers
>Acousticity: A Symposium on Sound, Space, and Practice
>International Vocal Arts Workshop, Jeunesses Musicales Croatia
>June 13, 2010: Gro~njan, Croatia
>
>Submit abstracts of 300 words or less to (acousticity.symposium /at/ gmail.com), by
>May 3, 2010.
>
>â¬SThere is no such thing as an empty space, or an empty time. There is always
>something to see, something to hear.⬝ (John Cage, â¬SExperimental Music⬝)
>
>Music takes place in the body, in the mind, in performance halls, in
>villages, in nations: Music takes place in spaces. This symposium invites
>participants to consider the spaces where we sing, play, and listen to
>music. We will explore the ways music occupies space, and the ways space
>changes and shapes music.  During the International Vocal Arts Workshop,
>musicians grapple concretely with issues of music and spaceexperimmenting
>with voice production, staging street theatre, and occupying various
>rehearsal and performance venues throughout Gro~njan. The symposium will
>provide a forum to reflect, theorize, and describe these and other musical
>activities. We welcome papers from a variety of disciplines including
>Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Theatre, Performance Studies, Anthropology,
>Literature, History, Sociology, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Physics,
>Anatomy. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
>
>     Body, voice production and instrument-making
>     Movement of music, music in exile
>     Musical spaces (concert halls, recording studios, public space)
>     Imaginary spaces, psychology
>     Reception of music and voice
>     Music on the page, on the stage
>     Disembodied sound, music technologies
>     Communities, political spaces, gendered spaces
>     Gro~njan
>     Spatial metaphors in vocal instruction
>     Composition practices, structure and form, architecture
>     Sound waves, circles of fifths, and other shapes in music
>     Physics of space and sound, acoustics
>     Music of the spheres
>     â¬SBalkanization⬝ of sounds
>     Performance and sexuality, identity, resistance
>     Soundscapes and musical maps
>     Silence and anechoic space
>
>Symposium Coordinator: Anne Donlon (Graduate Center & John Jay College, City
>University of New York)
>Program Director: Jane McMahan (Barnard College, Columbia University)
>

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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