Kingston ACRU symposium, 25 May 1-6pm
Clattern lecture theatre, Penrhyn Road, Kingston University
Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2EE
Sound and its subcultures can be understood to offer more dynamic ways of accounting for bodies, movements, and events. In the last 15 years or so, renewed interest in sound-based scholarship and the increasing significance of the acoustic—as simultaneously a site for analysis, a medium for aesthetic engagement, and a model for theorization—has been identified as ‘the sonic turn’ (Drobnick). This ACRU symposium traces the potentialities running across the sonic, from the natural soundscape to hyper-computational processing, and asks, what is it about sound that can be said to enable new modes of thought, perception and experience?
Schedule
| Times
| Speakers
| Titles
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| 13.00-13.15
| Eleni Ikoniadou
| Introduction: Audio Culture
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| 13.15-14.15
| Keynote: Paul Hegarty
| The Earth Sublimes, in Terror. A Speculation on a General Ecology of Sound
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| 14.15-14.45
| Anna Kontopoulou
| The Praxis of Political Listening: investigating the ‘relational’ aspects of sound
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| 14.45-15.15
| Alastair Cameron
| Unconscious Arithmetic
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| 15.15-15.30
| Coffee break (provided)
| |
| 15.30-16.00
| Scott Wilson
| Crooning in the Alethosphere with Martin Heidegger, Jacques Lacan and Bing Crosby |
| 16.00-16.30
| George Reid
| ‘A wild Dalek appeared!’ 8-bit sonic cartography: transformations of media soundtracks through a chiptune aesthetic
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| 16.30-17.00
| Tim Ewers
| Ghost Sonata
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| 17.00-17.30
| Vânia Gala
| Maliciously Missing: The potential of the missing performer in choreography
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| 17.30-18.00
| Wine reception (provided) |
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-sound-from-nature-to-the-posthuman-tickets-22486304141
