If music and sound are complex phenomena that exceed our efforts to grasp them fully, what resources do we have to make sense of them?
Join the Practice-based Experimental Epistemology Research Lab for a two-day symposium, organized by The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s PEER Lab & Durham University Music Department on April 29-30, 2022. This event aims to spark conversation on how metaphorical language shapes our understanding of not only music and sound but one another and the world.
Day 1 - April 29
WELCOME
9–9:30 AM PT
NINA EIDSHEIM & DANIEL WALDEN
FIGURE & SIGN
9:30 - 10:15AM
V. KOFI AGAWU, MODERATOR
NICHOLAS HARKNESS The Semiotic Hemiola (KEYNOTE)
BETHANY BATTAFARANO Metaphor and Metonym in Cross-Cultural Considerations of Voice
SU YIN MAK “Unhealthy,” “Drunk,” and “Squishy like a Sponge:” Embodied and Cross-Sensory Metaphors in the Discourse of Professional String Quartet Rehearsal
THEORIZING MUSIC THEORY
10:30 - 11:15AM
JADE CONLEE, MODERATOR
PHILIP EWELL Musical Metaphor as a Racialized Structure (KEYNOTE)
TEKLA BABYAK Amputated Limbs and Breathless Lungs: Ableist Metaphors in A. B. Marx’s Theories of Modality
SIV LIE Better Sense: Manouche Musicians, Aural Learning, and the Transformation of Racialized Metaphors
THROUGH SOUND & SILENCE
11:30AM - 12:15PM
GEORGE LIPSITZ, MODERATOR
SHANA L. REDMOND The Sounds of No Knocking (KEYNOTE)
ELLEN WATERMAN Reorienting Audition Through Bodily Listening in Place
CHARLES EPPLEY Beyond Objects: Access Artistry & Nonbinary Methods for Sound Description
Break (Lunch/Dinner)
12:15 - 1:30PM
TENDING TIME
1:30 - 2:15PM
JESSICA SWANSTON BAKER, MODERATOR
DYLAN ROBINSON Details Details (KEYNOTE)
SOPHIE ZEHETMAYER Counting Gestures. On Measure and Movement in Rhythm
JASON ROBINSON “In the Room Together:” Telematics, Corporeality, and Ambivalence
PNEUMA
2:30 - 3:15PM
DIANE OLIVA, MODERATOR
J. MARTIN DAUGHTRY Airing Out the Vocal Metaphor (KEYNOTE)
MICHAEL DAVIDSON An Interstitial Music: The Aeolian Harp
MARK KLIGMAN Music as Metaphor in Sacred Jewish Texts