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“Music and the
Moving Image” Graduate Conference
University of
California, Santa Barbara
January 14-15, 2006
The UCSB Center for
the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) is
calling for submissions for their interdisciplinary “Music and the
Moving
Image” Graduate Conference. The
conference will be held at The University of California, Santa Barbara
on
January 14th and 15th, 2006.
This conference—run by graduate students, for graduate
students—seeks to
explore the interaction between the moving image and music, sound, and
even
“silence” through a wide variety of interdisciplinary approaches. We welcome papers discussing the interaction
of all types of visual and auditory media including film, television,
digital
media, sound, noise, dialogue, etc. The
conference
will focus on the convergence of sound and image in all of its formal,
cultural, and aesthetic manifestations. We
anticipate that possible topics could include:
- Musical/sound
narration, trends in film scoring
- Technical apparatus and
techniques of
sound
- The
industry—marketing, underscoring, censorship, copyright, independent
productions, commercial
- Genre
and its boundaries: melodrama, cartoons, the musical, silent, action,
etc.
- Epistemologies
of sound, semiotics of sound
- Synesthesia:
experience and representation, difference and disabilities
- Embodiment
and Affect
- Cross
cultural perspectives, national and international cinemas
- Representations
of music and musicians
- Memory,
desire, nostalgia
- Political
mobilization
- Gender
and performativity
- Identity
and its discontents
- Fan
cultures: discovered soundtracks, slash, cult classics
Please send a 200
to 300 word abstract of your paper to musicmovingimage@gmail.com,
no
later than October 1, 2005. The abstract
can either be included in the body of the e-mail or attached as a
Microsoft
Word document. Paper
presentations will each be given twenty minutes, plus ten minutes for
questions and answers.
Details on
travel, accommodations and the keynote address will be forthcoming. Any questions regarding
the conference may also be sent to the above address.
Updated information will be posted on our
website: http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicmovingimage/