The Research Center for Music Iconography
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
is announcing the conference
Sounds of Prehistory and Antiquity
Fourteenth conference of the Research Center for Music Iconography
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
New York, 24 May 2017
The study of music from the earliest past draws upon iconography and archaeology, and any attempt to understand the earliest acoustic ecologies requires some level of approximation based on material artefacts. Participants are invited to offer embodied, experiential, phenomenological, creative, practice-based and practice-led research that explores the sonic contexts of prehistory and antiquity. These explorations may consider the examination of sound-producing objects and musical instruments, acoustics of performance spaces, or role of sound in rituals, ceremonies and everyday events. Research is welcomed that uses digital technologies in (re)constructions of ancient soundscapes, and explorations of sonic textures drawing upon iconographic, archaeological and literary sources. Also considered may be performances or other artistic content, whether focused on musical, sonic, performance or visual arts. They should provide information about the source material which has created the basis of the work, but subsequently freely engage with performative explorations.
Abstracts of 250-300 words may be submitted before 15 February 2017 to:
Zdravko Blazekovic
Research Center for Music Iconography
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309
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&
Rupert Till
Department of Music and Drama
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH
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Further information will be posted at
http://www.musiciconography.org/conferences/
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