Ninth International Conference
Music / Sonic Art: Practices and Theories
At the Interface of Practice and Theory:
Revisiting the Artistic Research Debate
MuSA 2018 – Karlsruhe (IMWI)
28 June – 1 July 2018
Hochschule für Musik, Karlsruhe –
Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikinformatik (IMWI)
Am Schloss Gottesaue 7, 76131 Karlsruhe
CALL FOR PAPERS:
We are pleased to announce the Ninth International Conference on Music
and Sonic Art: Practices and Theories (MuSA 2018), an interdisciplinary
event to be held in Karlsruhe, Germany at the Institut für
Musikwissenschaft und Musikinformatik (IMWI)
(http://www.hit-karlsruhe.de/hfm-ka/imm/).
Conference dates: 28 June – 1 July 2018
Keynote speaker: Markus Noisternig, IRCAM
Deadline for abstract submission: Friday, 27 April 2018
Proposals for sessions and individual papers for the Ninth International
Conference on Music and Sonic Art: Practices and Theories are invited
from academics, independent researchers, practitioners and post-graduate
students. Presentation formats include academic research papers (20
minutes + 10 minutes for discussion); reports on practice-based/artistic
research or educational programmes (20 minutes + 10 minutes for
discussion); and workshops, panel sessions, lecture-demonstrations (30
minutes + 15 minutes for discussion). The Conference committee
encourages presentations in which practice forms an integral part of the
research. All proposals will be ‘blind’ peer-reviewed. The conference
language will be English.
THEME AND TOPICS:
The theme of MuSA 2018 is At the Interface Between Practice and Theory:
Revisiting the Artistic Research Debate. The last decade has witnessed
the establishment of artistic research in Music and Sonic Art as an
original approach that brings together theory and practice. While much
has been written about the integral role of artistic practice in this
kind of research, much remains to be learned from exploring the multiple
ways in which theory and practice can be brought to bear on each other.
MuSA2018 aims to explore the interface between theory and practice in
the context of artistic research. We invite submissions on the
following, and other relevant topics, in relation to the theory-practice
interface in the context of artistic research:
• Conceptual and non-conceptual processes
• Multimodality
• Know-that and know-how
• The role of the subjective dimension
• Role of technology
• Embodied processes
• Value judgments
• New knowledge and insights
Other topics that are in line with the Conference’s broad aim of
promoting interdisciplinary research within and across Music and Sonic
Art will also be considered.
As in previous MuSA conferences MuSA 2018 will continue to include the
popular, one-day event devoted to ‘Re-thinking the Musical Instrument’,
focusing on the origination, making and playing of musical instruments.
Some of the topics that will be explored during this one-day event
include:
• The acoustical, musical, cultural, symbolic, and ritualistic qualities
of musical instruments and the relationships between these
(theoretically) distinct kinds of qualities;
• The discourses that exist in relation to musical instruments in
different genres, styles and traditions;
• The gestural affordances and ergonomic principles of musical
instruments and the musical meanings that emerge as a result of these
affordances and principles;
• Performers, improvisers and their instruments: phenomenologies of
music making in the context of particular kinds of musical instruments;
• Composer and instruments: the material, acoustical and expressive
qualities of instruments and their relationship to musical languages
composers create;
• Relationships between creativity in performance, nature of musical
interpretation and musical instruments;
• The role of the musical instrument in the creation of musical
identities;
We also invite proposals on any research area related to the nature and
use of western acoustical instruments, traditional ethnic instruments
and digital/virtual instruments.
ABSTRACT FORMAT:
Please submit an abstract of approximately 250-300 words as an e-mail
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As contributions will be ‘blind’ peer-reviewed, please do not include
information that might facilitate identification from the abstract. In
addition, please include separately the name(s) of the author(s),
institutional affiliation (if any) and short biography (approximately
100 words). Deadline for the receipt of abstracts is Friday, 27 April
2018. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 11 May 2018.
REGISTRATION:
The conference fees are: €120 for delegates (day rate: €40), €100 for
presenters (day rate: €35), and €60 for students and others who qualify
for concessions (day rate: €20).
If additional information is required please do not hesitate to contact
Prof. Dr. Mine Doğantan-Dack or any member of the conference committee:
Prof. Dr. Mine Doğantan-Dack - [log in to unmask] (University of Cambridge)
Prof. Dr. Thomas A. Troge (IMWI, Karlsruhe) – [log in to unmask]
Dr. John Dack (Middlesex University, UK) – [log in to unmask]
Prof. Miroslav Spasov (Keele University, UK) – [log in to unmask]
Prof. Dr. Marlon Schumacher (IMWI, Karlsruhe) –
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Prof. Dr. Marc Bangert (IMWI, Karlsruhe) – [log in to unmask]
Prof. Damon T. Lee DMA (IMWI, Karlsruhe) – [log in to unmask]
Prof. Dr. Paulo Ferreira-Lopes (Universita Cattolica
Porto/HfM-Karlsruhe) - [log in to unmask]
Patrick Borgeat (IMWI, Karlsruhe) – [log in to unmask]
Timothy P. Schmele (IMWI, Karlsruhe) – [log in to unmask]
Administrative support: Gundi Rössler (IMWI, Karlsruhe) –
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Dr Mine Dogantan-Dack
Faculty of Music
University of Cambridge
11 West Road
Cambridge CB3 9DP
www.minedogantandack.com
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