2023 Conference

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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

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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