Instruments-interfaces-infrastructures

CFP: Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media

Harvard University Department of Music, May 11-13, 2023

Deadline for submissions: Friday, January 13, 2023

We are pleased to announce a three-day conference bringing together researchers and artists from a variety of music-related disciplines for a dialogue on the interconnected themes of instruments, interfaces, and infrastructures.

The conference will feature three keynote speakers, including musicologist Emily Dolan, sound artist and media scholar Tara Rodgers, and music theorist Sumanth Gopinath, each responding to one of the main conference themes. There will also be creative workshops and performances featuring the 40-loudspeaker HYDRA system of the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition, as well as faculty-artists from the Electronic Production and Design (EPD) program at Berklee College of Music. Finally, conference attendees will be offered guided tours of acoustical artifacts at the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, and researchers are invited to propose papers and panels focusing on these historical objects at hand.

The conference organizing committee welcomes proposals for individual papers, themed sessions, roundtables, workshops, and creative contributions. To foster an interdisciplinary space of collaboration, we encourage applications that respond to the conference themes from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives. We especially encourage proposals by scholars, artists, and activists working within and across Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, and other underrepresented communities in the fields of music, media, and sound studies.

To apply, submit an abstract (350 words), short biography (150 words), and a list of five keywords describing your project. Optionally, you may also provide a select bibliography (1 page) and supplementary examples (1-2 pages), or in the case of creative proposals, a URL weblink to access audio/visual material (2-3 minutes).

The deadline for all proposals is at 11:59pm EST on Friday, January 13, 2023. Email complete proposals to iiicon2023-at-gmail.com.

For more details, see conference website: https://sites.harvard.edu/instruments-interfaces-infrastructures/

Organizing Committee Landon Morrison, lead organizer Carolyn Abbate Michele Duguay Toru Momii Alexander Rehding