[AMS MPSG] CFP: Music and Philosophy Study Group, AMS Milwaukee 2014
Amy Cimini
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Below, please find a CFP for the AMS Music and Philosophy Study Group's events at AMS 2014 in Milwaukee,
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Amy
CFP: New Ontologies of Sound and Music
AMS Music and Philosophy Study Group
Milwaukee, 2014
What is the “ontology” of music? Twenty years ago, the phrase connoted a series of debates among philosophers and music scholars concerning the nature of musical works (universals, sound-structures, or regulative concepts) and their relation to musical performances. But today, in dialog with the “ontological turn” in the humanities, the rise of sound studies, and the increasing importance of media studies in the humanities, the ontology of music has expanded in scope and shifted in focus.
By focusing on the word “ontology,” music studies has begun not only to reconsider the kinds of objects out of which music is made, but also to articulate new ways of addressing music’s relationality, agency, materiality, and modes of existence more broadly. Under the rubric of the ontology of music, we seek new investigations into the relationship between music, sound, and noise: from theories and histories of “sound objects,” to challenges of the semiotic and language-like dimensions of music, to vibrationalist accounts of sound that focus on the capacity of music to affect and move bodies, to new experimental practices in composition and sound art that seek to explore the material, spatial, and corporeal nature of sound and music. We are particularly interested in the political dimension of ontologies that distribute and allocate an expanded notion of agency to objects, things and matter, as well as broader inquiries about the role of power in defining any ontology of sound and music.
Possible topics may include, but are by no means limited to:
• The agency of music, sound, and noise
• Music and the relationality of sound
• Contemporary and historical accounts of music and sonic vibration
• Music, humanism, post-humanism, and critiques of anthropocentrism
• Ontologies of collaboration and competition
• Ontology and format: the album, the single, compression, streaming, etc.
• New sound-image relationships (mash-up videos, projections, light shows, animations)
• Ontologies of recording (hi-fi, lo-fi), mixing, and sampling
• Sonic evanescence, fragility, and ineffability
• Environmental sound and Radical Ecology
• Ontologies of music theory: formalism, cognitivism, corporealism, and historicism
• Ontology, politics, and sound
• Music and the New Materialism
• Music and Thing Theory
• Music and Speculative Realism
• Schaefferian and post-Schaefferian sound objects
• Music and Object-Oriented Ontology
Our panel will feature papers of eight to ten minutes each; the session will be oriented towards discussion. Abstracts will be selected based upon the strength of the intellectual project they propose, as well as their clarity.
Please send a proposal of 250 words to the following email address: philosophymusic[at]gmail[dot]com
The deadline for submissions is April 25, 2014.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Amy Cimini (acimini[at]ucsd[dot]edu ) or any other member of the MPSG Organizing Board.
MPSG Chair:
Amy Cimini (University of California at San Diego)
MPSG Organizing Board:
Seth Brodsky (University of Chicago)
Joanna Demers (University of Southern California)
Michael Gallope (University of Minnesota)
Brian Kane (Yale University)
Tamara Levitz (UCLA)
Jairo Moreno (University of Pennsylvania)
Stephen Decatur Smith (Stony Brook University)
Holly Watkins (Eastman School of Music)
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Assistant Professor of Music
University of California San Diego
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