Spaces of Musical Production / Production of Musical Spaces
International conference
3–5 November 2023, Triennale Milano
Organizers: Giorgio Biancorosso (University of Hong Kong), Carlo Lanfossi (Università degli Studi di Milano), Emilio Sala (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Spaces of Musical Production/Production of Musical Spaces brings together a selected group of scholars and artists to examine the relationship between music and space from a variety of perspectives—historical, theoretical, ethnographic, and poetic. Porous, overlapping spaces imply role fluidity (and vice versa): ranging from the physical to the virtual, and from the statistical to the imaginary, the conference seeks to encourage a reappraisal of production across the traditional divide between theory and practice.
The conference will also feature the roundtable Mapping Musical Life: Urban Culture and the Local Press in Post-Unification Italy and a guest lecture by the acclaimed theater and opera director Romeo Castellucci.
Conference Program
Friday 3 November
16:30 |
Welcome and opening remarks |
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17:00 |
Keynote lecture: |
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18:30 |
Opening reception |
09:30 |
Session 1: At the Borders of Operatic Spaces Landscape Dramaturgy and Postopera: Singing After Perspective On the Spaces in Between; or, What Musical Networks Produce The Hypermobility Turn in Contemporary Opera |
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11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:30 |
Session 2: Urban Spaces of Musical Production Cinematic Musical Spaces in Paris: Popular Music and the Advent of Sound Film “A Living Being in Constant Transformation”: Staging Opera and Architecture in 1930s Florence From Thin to Deep: Mapping Urban Music through Multimedia Web Apps |
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13:00 |
Lunch break |
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14:30 |
Roundtable on music history and digital mapping: |
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16:30 |
Coffee break |
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17:00 |
Session 3: Sonic Representations of Spaces Containing Multitudes: A Sound Installation in the Montreal’s Entertainment District Peri-Urban Sound Ecology. The City Without an Outside Redefining Landscape: Aural Observations and Representations of Spaces |
09:30 |
Session 4: Spaces of Vocal Otherness Notes Towards an Acoustemology of Witches Shower Ballads: Energy, Sound and Democracy ca. 1943 Voicing and Speech Capture in Romeo Castellucci’s Works |
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11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:30 |
Epiphonies, Romeo Castellucci in conversation with Emilio Sala (with three contributions by Scott Gibbons) |
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12:30 |
Closing remarks |