Reembodied Sound is an interdisciplinary symposium focusing on the increasing use of transducers in music and sonic art, a subject which has received scant attention as a unified practice. While transducers have been used by artists since their inception, recent years have seen an increasing prevalence of surface speakers or “sound exciters” in musical composition, sound installation, and sound art. In essence, sound is taken from its original source and “reembodied” into a new object (or recursively back into the original source) such as a metal sheet, piano, or other resonant object, often with the addition of mixed synthesis and other computer-based processes.
This event brings together composers, sound artists, scholars, researchers, and engineers to investigate issues of aesthetics, ethnography, technical design, compositional techniques, and pedagogy in order to share practical information, inspire artists with new tools and new possibilities, and to lay a foundation for scholarly discourse and technological investigation.
The conference, Reembodied Sound: A Symposium & Festival of Transducer-based Music and Sonic Art, will be held April 7-8, 2017, at Columbia University.
Submission Tracks:
- Papers/Presentations: 20-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute discussion session
- Performance Works: Written compositions, improvisation, or any works designed for a concert setting.
- Sound Art/Installation: Gallery-style pieces that can be exhibited alongside other works.
Submission deadline: January 25, 2017
Notifications of decisions: February 5, 2017
For further information and to submit proposals, please visit: http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/reembodiedsound/ or contact[email protected]
Planning committee: Matthew Goodheart (Conference Organizer), Onur Yıldırım, Zachary Hap Seligman Karen
Reembodied Sound is sponsored by the Columbia University’s Computer Music Center and the MFA Program in Sound Arts Program (Columbia University School of the Arts), with co-sponsorships from the and the Department of Music, Center for Ethnomusicology, the Center for Science and Society, and the Heyman Center for Humanities, and the Center for Science and Society. Additional support from the Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music.
