[ecrea] The Eye Hears, The Ear Sees Symposium, Edinburgh, Tuesday 3rd June

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*‘The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees’ Symposium: Music, Animation, and
Experimental Film*

Tuesday 3 June 2014, 10am ? 5.30pm,

Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh


2014 marks the centenary of Norman McLaren’s birth. This anniversary is
being celebrated in Scotland with McLaren2014, a programme of events
taking place in Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh between April and June.
As a supplement to this programme, the University of Edinburgh is
running a series of workshops, roundtables and symposia, of which this
is the first.


McLaren is now recognized as a pioneer in the fields of animation,
experimental and abstract cinema, and visual sound. Taking his
innovations as a starting point ? and borrowing our title from a 1970
BBC documentary about McLaren ? this symposium will explore and
interrogate McLaren’s legacy for practitioners and theorists. Four guest
speakers will discuss the relationships between music, animation, and
experimental film. They will consider McLaren’s work and influence from
disparate perspectives, and identify new avenues of enquiry that it
suggests. How can we think and theorise the relations between sound and
the moving image in fresh and novel ways? Although filmmakers regularly
collaborate with musicians and sound designers, how can working habits
be reimagined, new strategies and creative possibilities explored?


This event is being collaboratively organized with Talbot Rice Gallery
in Edinburgh, which is staging a six week exhibition of McLaren
materials as part of McLaren2014. The symposium will close with a
reception held in the gallery.


*Speakers:*

Karen Beckman, University of Pennsylvania

Aimee Mollaghan, NUI Galway

Holly Rogers, University of Liverpool

Richard Stamp, Bath Spa University


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