*With apologies for cross posting*
Dear all,
We are pleased to announce that the IMR (RHUL) Symposium *Music Studies on
a Damaged Planet: Sound Responses to Environmental Breakdown* has been
rescheduled and registration is now open.
The symposium will now be held on *Saturday* *31st October 2020* as an
online event.
Registration is available through the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-music-studies-on-a-damaged-planet-tickets-122402777001
Participants will be sent Zoom details in the week before the symposium.
Please find the symposium description and revised programme below.
Best wishes,
Joe Browning (City, University of London) and Andrew Green (University of
Glasgow)
*Music Studies on a Damaged Planet: Sound Responses to Environmental
Breakdown*
*Supported by the Institute for Musical Research (RHUL)*
If, as activist Greta Thunberg says, the only response to climate crisis is
to ‘act as if our house is on fire’, where does this leave music studies?
Music scholars, like the wider academy and society at large, have struggled
to respond to the climate emergency and environmental breakdown. And while
nature and the environment have been mounting thematic concerns in some
recent work, the scale and complexity of the current ecological crisis and
the urgent need for widespread systemic change raise questions about the
roles and responsibilities of music scholarship as a whole. If we must now
find ways to live on a damaged planet (Tsing, Swanson, Gan and Bubandt
2017), environmental breakdown is no longer simply a topic with which some
music scholars choose to engage; rather, it is one of the conditions in
which music studies operates.
This one-day symposium asks how music studies should respond to the global
ecological crisis. We aim to consider this question across all dimensions
of our work – from our objects of study, through methods, to research
dissemination, teaching curricula and public engagement – while at the same
time interrogating the institutionalisation of music studies itself. Most
fundamentally, the conference asks questions about the purpose and politics
of academic work. Should critique remain the central academic response to
environmental breakdown? What is the role of practice-based research such
as composition and performance? How might we address the problem of
academic flying and other environmental impacts of knowledge production?
How might musicological practice engage effectively with communities most
at risk from environmental breakdown? How should we teach music in this
time of crisis? As activist movements grow around the world, when and how
should academic work become activist work? And looking beyond familiar
tropes of critique, advocacy and activism: are there other modes of
academic work that might offer more reparative, strategic, or radical forms
of response?
The symposium seeks to cultivate a forum in which the ramifications of
environmental breakdown for music studies can be properly felt and debated.
Doing so is necessarily a speculative, experimental proposition. It means
recognising that the ecological crisis intersects with multiple other major
social and political issues, including social justice, migration and late
capitalism. And it means exploring the personal dimensions of scholarly
work, acknowledging that academics are also kin, community members,
concerned citizens, and more. ‘Staying with the trouble’ (Haraway 2016)
undoubtedly entails difficult affects – despair, anxiety, grief, and the
witnessing of damage – but it might also enable a renewal of the scholarly
impulse, through new forms of pedagogy, play, storytelling, resource
development, scholarly collaboration and collective action. The symposium
invites contributions in this spirit of simultaneous concern and
commitment.
*Symposium Programme*
*Symposium Zoom Opens: 9.30 *[Zoom details provided through registration]
*9.40-9.45: Welcome*
*9.45-11.00: Session 1: Anthropocene Acoustemologies*
Patricia Jäggi and Natalie Kirschstein: *Listening to Forests and
Performing with Birds: Practices of Aural Biophilia in Times of Ecological
Crisis*
Bonnie McConnell: *Singing the Rain: Climate Change Adaptation and
Ethnomusicology*
Marta-Liisa Talvet: *Experimental Free Improvisation as Basis for Musical
Communication with Animals Other than Humans*
*11.00-11.20: Tea break*
*11.20-12.10: Session 2: Acoustic Interventions*
Amanda Bayley and Stevie Wishart: *Eco-composition: Music of Our Time*
Bennett Hogg: *But What do We Say to the Birds?: Sonic Participation as
Ecosystemic Practice*
*12.10-12.20: Short break*
*12.20-1.10: Session 3: Sound, Activism, Advocacy*
Lewis Coenen-Rowe: *Musicology’s Place in the Environmentalist Ecosystem*
William Davy Cole: *Ecological Crisis and the Special Reach of Practice*
*1.10-2.00: Lunch*
*2.00-3.15: Session 4: Sounds of Crisis*
Kevin Malone: *Troubled Waters*
Rob Mackay: *Following the Flight of the Monarchs* [including telematic
performance]
Heidi Hart: *Creaturely Acts: Eco-ethics in Music Research and Practice*
*3.15-3.30: Tea break*
*3.30-5.00: Keynote Panel*
Chiara Badiali (Julie’s Bicycle)
Chris Garrard (Composer; Co-director, Culture Unstained)
Angela Impey (SOAS, University of London)
Blythe Pepino (Mesadorm; climate activist)
George Revill (Open University)
*5.00 END*
*From: *"Browning, Joseph" <[log in to unmask]>
*Date: *Monday, 28 September 2020 at 14:53
*To: *Andrew Green <[log in to unmask]>
*Subject: *Re: New MSoDP programme
Just realised we clash with the last day of the SEM conference. Oh well..
Joe
*From: *"Browning, Joseph" <[log in to unmask]>
*Date: *Monday, 28 September 2020 at 14:42
*To: *Andrew Green <[log in to unmask]>
*Subject: *New MSoDP programme
Hi Andrew,
Here’s the new version (with Blythe Changed to Mesadorm, climate activist)
which I’m about to send to BFE, SEM and IMR. Also attached as word file.
Do you want to double check you sent to Musicology-All? It still hasn’t
come through.
All best,
Joe
*With apologies for cross posting*
Dear all,
We are pleased to announce that the IMR Symposium *Music Studies on a
Damaged Planet: Sound Responses to Environmental Breakdown* has been
rescheduled and registration is now open.
The symposium will now be held on *Saturday* *31st October 2020* as an
online event.
Registration is available through the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-music-studies-on-a-damaged-planet-tickets-122402777001
Participants will be sent Zoom details in the week before the symposium.
Please find the symposium description and revised programme below.
Best wishes,
Joe Browning (City, University of London) and Andrew Green (University of
Glasgow)
*Music Studies on a Damaged Planet: Sound Responses to Environmental
Breakdown*
*Supported by the Institute for Musical Research*
If, as activist Greta Thunberg says, the only response to climate crisis is
to ‘act as if our house is on fire’, where does this leave music studies?
Music scholars, like the wider academy and society at large, have struggled
to respond to the climate emergency and environmental breakdown. And while
nature and the environment have been mounting thematic concerns in some
recent work, the scale and complexity of the current ecological crisis and
the urgent need for widespread systemic change raise questions about the
roles and responsibilities of music scholarship as a whole. If we must now
find ways to live on a damaged planet (Tsing, Swanson, Gan and Bubandt
2017), environmental breakdown is no longer simply a topic with which some
music scholars choose to engage; rather, it is one of the conditions in
which music studies operates.
This one-day symposium asks how music studies should respond to the global
ecological crisis. We aim to consider this question across all dimensions
of our work – from our objects of study, through methods, to research
dissemination, teaching curricula and public engagement – while at the same
time interrogating the institutionalisation of music studies itself. Most
fundamentally, the conference asks questions about the purpose and politics
of academic work. Should critique remain the central academic response to
environmental breakdown? What is the role of practice-based research such
as composition and performance? How might we address the problem of
academic flying and other environmental impacts of knowledge production?
How might musicological practice engage effectively with communities most
at risk from environmental breakdown? How should we teach music in this
time of crisis? As activist movements grow around the world, when and how
should academic work become activist work? And looking beyond familiar
tropes of critique, advocacy and activism: are there other modes of
academic work that might offer more reparative, strategic, or radical forms
of response?
The symposium seeks to cultivate a forum in which the ramifications of
environmental breakdown for music studies can be properly felt and debated.
Doing so is necessarily a speculative, experimental proposition. It means
recognising that the ecological crisis intersects with multiple other major
social and political issues, including social justice, migration and late
capitalism. And it means exploring the personal dimensions of scholarly
work, acknowledging that academics are also kin, community members,
concerned citizens, and more. ‘Staying with the trouble’ (Haraway 2016)
undoubtedly entails difficult affects – despair, anxiety, grief, and the
witnessing of damage – but it might also enable a renewal of the scholarly
impulse, through new forms of pedagogy, play, storytelling, resource
development, scholarly collaboration and collective action. The symposium
invites contributions in this spirit of simultaneous concern and
commitment.
*Symposium Programme*
*Symposium Zoom Opens: 9.30 *[Zoom details provided through registration]
*9.40-9.45: Welcome*
*9.45-11.00: Session 1: Anthropocene Acoustemologies*
Patricia Jäggi and Natalie Kirschstein: *Listening to Forests and
Performing with Birds: Practices of Aural Biophilia in Times of Ecological
Crisis*
Bonnie McConnell: *Singing the Rain: Climate Change Adaptation and
Ethnomusicology*
Marta-Liisa Talvet: *Experimental Free Improvisation as Basis for Musical
Communication with Animals Other than Humans*
*11.00-11.20: Tea break*
*11.20-12.10: Session 2: Acoustic Interventions*
Amanda Bayley and Stevie Wishart: *Eco-composition: Music of Our Time*
Bennett Hogg: *But What do We Say to the Birds?: Sonic Participation as
Ecosystemic Practice*
*12.10-12.20: Short break*
*12.20-1.10: Session 3: Sound, Activism, Advocacy*
Lewis Coenen-Rowe: *Musicology’s Place in the Environmentalist Ecosystem*
William Davy Cole: *Ecological Crisis and the Special Reach of Practice*
*1.10-2.00: Lunch*
*2.00-3.15: Session 4: Sounds of Crisis*
Kevin Malone: *Troubled Waters*
Rob Mackay: *Following the Flight of the Monarchs* [including telematic
performance]
Heidi Hart: *Creaturely Acts: Eco-ethics in Music Research and Practice*
*3.15-3.30: Tea break*
*3.30-5.00: Keynote Panel*
Chiara Badiali (Julie’s Bicycle)
Chris Garrard (Composer; Co-director, Culture Unstained)
Angela Impey (SOAS, University of London)
Blythe Pepino (Mesadorm; climate activist)
George Revill (Open University)
*5.00 END*
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