[ecrea] Call for Papers: Sound-Tracking Melbourne Symposium

*Call for Papers: Sound-Tracking Melbourne Symposium, 15-16 June 2018*

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Following the successful /Screening Melbourne/Symposium 
<https://screeningmelbourne.wordpress.com/> in February 2017, the 
Melbourne Screen Studies Group 
<https://melbournescreenstudies.wordpress.com/> now seeks to solicit new 
abstracts for the */Sound-Tracking Melbourne/*/*Symposium*/**that will 
take place on *15-16* */June 2018. /*

While it is recognized that screen media form the connective tissue of 
Melbourne’s artistic and cultural life, the importance of sound to the 
way the moving image is brought to life, is relatively less well 
acknowledged. The /Sound-Tracking Melbourne Symposium / not only 
intends//to give due critical and creative weight to the interlocking 
dimensions of sound design found in Melbourne screen culture, but to 
address the lack of sustained scholarship on the ways in which the city 
and its environs are imagined and brought to life on screen through 
particular ‘tracking’ soundscapes, from music videos to audiovisual art 
installations, and from film and TV to games and documentary. 
/Sound-Tracking Melbourne /is both a recognition of the importance of 
sound to moving image culture and an intervention – asking delegates to 
hear and see sound in newly important ways.The symposium will do this 
through delegate presentations, panel discussions, industry events, and 
performance-screenings.

We invite critical and/or creative abstracts, including non-traditional 
research presentations, for individual 20-minute papers, or 
pre-constituted panels of 3 x 20-minute papers, on any topic or theme 
related to the relationship between screen and sound in Melbourne. 
Industry and medium specific presentations are welcome, as well as those 
that adopt a broader view of Melbourne’s screen-sound cultures and which 
make comparisons with national and international case studies.

*Possible topics include, but are not limited to**the following areas**:*

  * The Melbourne sound-vernacular on screen – accent, tone and pitch
  * ‘Sound-tracking’ gender, ethnicity, class, and sexuality – hearing
    and (not) seeing identity
  * Melbourne’s music-image music scene
  * Documenting Melbourne life through the sound-image
  * Melbourne’s music video culture
  * Melbourne’s installation art and video work: sounding experimental
  * Sounding the everyday in documentary filmmaking
  * Locations and settings: the ‘sound-track’ of place and space
  * Melbourne film soundtracks
  * Indigenous soundings in Melbourne screen culture
  * Melbourne’s local news: ‘sound-tracking’ news in the cities and regions
  * Film and television genre soundings. Melbourne as an audio-visual 
genre.
  * Migration, home and exile: the sights and sounds of Melbourne’s
    populations
  * YouTube Melbourne
  * Historicising ‘sound-tracking’ or the ‘sound-track’ in Melbourne
    screen culture
  * Technologies and interfaces of ‘sounding’ Melbourne on screen:
    analogue, digital, post-human
  * Exhibiting sound in Melbourne screen culture – exploring the
    acoustics of ‘venue’
  * Composing scores for Melbourne-based film and television
  * The art of ‘sound-tracking’ Melbourne
  * Gaming sound in a Melbourne context
  * Games and cities: sounding Melbourne as an apocalypse
  * Starring the Melbourne sound
*Deadline for individual and panel abstracts: _5 February 2018_*__

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*Individual Abstracts*: 250 words, plus a 50-word biography. /Please 
indicate if a postgraduate student/.

*Pre-constituted Panels*: 150-word overview, plus 3x 250 word abstracts, 
and 3x 50-word biography, plus name of lead contact.

Delegates will be notified of decisions by: *_5 March 2018_*__

We will award a small bursary for the best PhD abstract submitted (also 
notified on 5 March)

Please direct all abstracts and any enquiries to: 
(screeningmelbourne /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(screeningmelbourne /at/ gmail.com)>

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On behalf of the organisation committee

David Chesworth

Toija Cinque

Adrian Danks

Glen Donnar

Claire Perkins

Sean Redmond

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