2023 Conference | Sound Stage Screen

Spaces of Musical Production / Production of Musical Spaces

International conference

3–5 November 2023, Triennale 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
17:00	Keynote lecture: Symbolic “Space” as a Time-Function of Sonic Signals Wolfgang Ernst (Humboldt University of Berlin)
18:30	Opening reception

Saturday 4 November

09:30	Session 1: At the Borders of Operatic Spaces *Landscape Dramaturgy and Postopera: Singing After Perspective* Jelena Novak (NOVA University of Lisbon) *On the Spaces in Between; or, What Musical Networks Produce* Jonathan Hicks (University of Aberdeen) *The Hypermobility Turn in Contemporary Opera* Jingyi Zhang (Harvard University)
11:00	Coffee break
11:30	Session 2: Urban Spaces of Musical Production *Cinematic Musical Spaces in Paris: Popular Music and the Advent of Sound Film* Lola San Martín Arbide (University of Sevilla) *“A Living Being in Constant Transformation”: Staging Opera and Architecture in 1930s Florence* Francesca Vella (Northumbria University) From Thin to Deep: Mapping Urban Music through Multimedia Web Apps Martin Nicastro (University of Pavia)
13:00	Lunch break
14:30	Roundtable on music history and digital mapping: Mapping Musical Life: Urban Culture and the Local Press in Post-Unification Italy Chair: Mila De Santis (University of Florence) Position papers: Bianca De Mario (University of Milan), Elena Oliva (University of Florence), Alessandro Maras (Sapienza University of Rome), Ilaria Grippaudo (University of Palermo) Discussant: Carlo Lanfossi (University of Milan)
16:30	Coffee break
17:00	Session 3: Sonic Representations of Spaces *Containing Multitudes: A Sound Installation in the Montreal’s Entertainment District* Nicola Di Croce (IUAV University of Venice) *Peri-Urban Sound Ecology. The City Without an Outside* Ruben Baiocco (University of Milan) *Redefining Landscape: Aural Observations and Representations of Spaces* Francesco Bergamo (IUAV University of Venice)

Sunday 5 November

09:30	Session 4: Spaces of Vocal Otherness *Notes Towards an Acoustemology of Witches* Delia Casadei (UC Berkeley), Marina Romani (UC Berkeley) *Shower Ballads: Energy, Sound and Democracy ca. 1943* Gavin Williams (King’s College London) *Voicing and Speech Capture in Romeo Castellucci’s Works* Piersandra Di Matteo (IUAV University of Venice)
11:00	Coffee break
11:30	Epiphonies, Romeo Castellucci in conversation with Emilio Sala (with three contributions by Scott Gibbons)
12:30	Closing remarks

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