Friday 3 November 2017, London Science Museum
Info and registration here
Sound Talking is a one-day event at the London Science Museum that seeks to explore the complex relationships between language and sound, both historically and in the present day. It aims to identify the perspectives and methodologies of current research in the ever-widening field of sound studies, and to locate productive interactions between disciplines.
Bringing together audio engineers, psychiatrists, linguists, musicologists, and historians of literature and medicine, we will be asking questions about sound as a point of linguistic engagement. We will consider the terminology used to discuss sound, the invention of words that capture sonic experience, and the use and manipulation of sound to emulate linguistic descriptions. Talks will address singing voice research, the history of onomatopoeias, new music production tools, auditory neuroscience, sounds in literature, and the sounds of the insane asylum.
Speakers:
- Ian Rawes (London Sound Survey)
- Melissa Dickson (University of Oxford)
- Jonathan Andrews (Newcastle University)
- Maria Chait (UCL Ear Institute)
- David Howard (Royal Holloway University of London)
- Brecht De Man (Queen Mary University of London)
- Mandy Parnell (Black Saloon Studios)
- Trevor Cox (Salford University)
For more information, see here, or contact the workshop chairs:
Melissa Dickson and Brecht De Man
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Thursday, September 28, 2017
Monday, May 08, 2017
Show - Song of Contagion
Song of Contagion hits the stage in London on June 13-17th. The show mashes
the world's great musical traditions together into a show that explores how
industry lobbying, patient activism and media hype interact to distort
priority setting in global health.
You can book tickets here.
More about the show and the project here.
If you've never been to Wilton's, it's worth coming to the show just to see this fantastic Victoran-era music hall in all its crumbling, East End glory (the BBC Proms follow us to Wilton's in July). Come also, of course, because Song of Contagion will be thought-provoking and damned good fun. Wilton's is within walking distance of the last cholera outbreak in London (1866) - the subject of one of our songs.
On Saturday June 17th, London historian, guide and all-round great entertainer Sophie Campbell will lead a walk exploring how the disease, and the great Victorian engineering project that wiped it out, affected Londoners. Sign up here.
If you've never been to Wilton's, it's worth coming to the show just to see this fantastic Victoran-era music hall in all its crumbling, East End glory (the BBC Proms follow us to Wilton's in July). Come also, of course, because Song of Contagion will be thought-provoking and damned good fun. Wilton's is within walking distance of the last cholera outbreak in London (1866) - the subject of one of our songs.
On Saturday June 17th, London historian, guide and all-round great entertainer Sophie Campbell will lead a walk exploring how the disease, and the great Victorian engineering project that wiped it out, affected Londoners. Sign up here.
Monday, March 13, 2017
Talk - 'Polyphonic Minds'
Peter Pesic (St. John's College, Santa Fe)
Sunday 19 March: 1400-1500 -- Faculty of Music, Lecture Room 1
Peter Pesic is Tutor and Musician-in-Residence at St. John's College, Santa Fe. He is the author of Labyrinth: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science; Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature; Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability; and Sky in a Bottle, all published by the MIT Press.
Sunday 19 March: 1400-1500 -- Faculty of Music, Lecture Room 1
Peter Pesic is Tutor and Musician-in-Residence at St. John's College, Santa Fe. He is the author of Labyrinth: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science; Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature; Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability; and Sky in a Bottle, all published by the MIT Press.
Saturday, December 03, 2016
Conference - 'After Idealism: Sound as Matter and Medium in the 19 Century'
17-18 March 2017, University of Cambridge
Conference details, registration & full programme: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26935
This conference aims to enlarge substantially our understanding of the dialogue between 19th-century music and natural science, examining in particular how a scientific-materialist conception of sound was formed alongside a dominant culture of romantic idealism. It takes as its subject sound as matter and medium, focusing on the domains of natural science, emergent technologies, sentient communication and acoustics.
Speakers include:
Registration is now open via the conference site (£40 full fee -- £15 student or unwaged)
Conference details, registration & full programme: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26935
This conference aims to enlarge substantially our understanding of the dialogue between 19th-century music and natural science, examining in particular how a scientific-materialist conception of sound was formed alongside a dominant culture of romantic idealism. It takes as its subject sound as matter and medium, focusing on the domains of natural science, emergent technologies, sentient communication and acoustics.
Speakers include:
- Carolyn Abbate (Harvard / musicology)
- Nikita Braguinski (Humboldt Universität / media theory)
- Melissa van Drie (Cambridge / theatre studies)
- Edward Gillin (Cambridge / history of architecture)
- Alexandra Hui (Mississippi / history and philosophy of science)
- Sybille Krämer (Freie Universität / media philosophy)
- Melle Kromhout (Amsterdam / musicology)
- Julia Kursell (Amsterdam / musicology)
- Roger Moseley (Cornell / musicology)
- Peter Pesic (Santa Fe / history and philosophy of science)
- John Durham Peters (Iowa / communication studies)
- Alexander Rehding (Harvard / music theory)
- Milla Tiainen (Helsinki / musicology)
- Viktoria Tkaczyk (Max Planck, Berlin / history and philosophy of science)
- David Trippett (Cambridge / musicology)
Registration is now open via the conference site (£40 full fee -- £15 student or unwaged)
Monday, July 04, 2016
Next term - Fire
Our meetings for Michaelmas Term 2016 will be themed around 'Fire', giving us the opportunity to discuss everything from ancient elements to far-flung suns, pottery to passion, experimental practice and hellfire. Watch out for the full schedule later on this summer; and email Melanie if you have a burning desire to add anything to the reading list!
Meanwhile, enjoy these playlists of music about fire:
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Recap - Phrenological Genres
Our first meeting of the academic year brought together Sci-Lit stalwarts with first-time attendees (with a particularly strong showing from the HPS MPhil cohort!), to discuss all things phrenological.
As ever, the conversation ranged widely, from discussions of the impact of urbanisation to the characters of software engineers, Walt Whitman's phrenological reading to the psychic effects of Fantastic Voyage-style adventures inside one's own head. Amongst other topics, we explored the role of physical analogies in these texts, from the cartographic nature of phrenology as mapping the mind and brain, or constructing a chambered house inhabited by different faculties; as well as the roles of analogy and allegory more generally. We thought about how these texts could reveal the consequences of a society based solely (from dress and jewellery to doctors and jurisprudence) on phrenological principles, or of the role for free will if character were truly fixed by crania. We discussed the perennial appeal of phrenology as a test-case for policing the boundaries of scientific disciplines and practitioners, right from its first development: was this really an 'outré science', as Tennyson had it, and if so what did that mean? As highlighted from the outset, generic form was also analysed as one way of accessing an early 19thC world of interdisciplinary (or predisciplinary?) writing and reading of texts.
Finally, as promised, a performance of the 'Phrenology' song from Broadway Musical Florodora (1899) can be found here.
As ever, the conversation ranged widely, from discussions of the impact of urbanisation to the characters of software engineers, Walt Whitman's phrenological reading to the psychic effects of Fantastic Voyage-style adventures inside one's own head. Amongst other topics, we explored the role of physical analogies in these texts, from the cartographic nature of phrenology as mapping the mind and brain, or constructing a chambered house inhabited by different faculties; as well as the roles of analogy and allegory more generally. We thought about how these texts could reveal the consequences of a society based solely (from dress and jewellery to doctors and jurisprudence) on phrenological principles, or of the role for free will if character were truly fixed by crania. We discussed the perennial appeal of phrenology as a test-case for policing the boundaries of scientific disciplines and practitioners, right from its first development: was this really an 'outré science', as Tennyson had it, and if so what did that mean? As highlighted from the outset, generic form was also analysed as one way of accessing an early 19thC world of interdisciplinary (or predisciplinary?) writing and reading of texts.
Finally, as promised, a performance of the 'Phrenology' song from Broadway Musical Florodora (1899) can be found here.
Thursday, February 04, 2010
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