Naming, Understanding, and Playing with Metaphors in Music – Day 2

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.

APRIL 30 - Day 2

CASTING THE VOICE

9 – 9:45AM

STEPHAN PENNINGTON, MODERATOR
KATHERINE HAMBRIDGE Writing the German Voice (KEYNOTE)
IRIS BLAKE Sympathetic Resonance: Activating More-Than-Human Affect, Voice, and Embodiment
RICHARD BEAUDOIN Mars, Blemishes, and Indexed Taboos: Recasting Noise Metaphors in Recording Analysis

HOW DO YOU HEAR PARKINSON’S?: UNDERSTANDING CHRONIC ILLNESS EXPERIENCE THROUGH SONIC & MUSICAL METAPHOR

10 – 10:45AM Roundtable

RAY KNAPP, MODERATOR ROSS BRILLHART
DANIEL B. REED
DEBORAH WONG, RESPONDENT

NARRATIVES

11 – 11:45AM

TOMIE HAHN, MODERATOR
DORINNE KONDO Worldmaking: Gender, Race, Place (KEYNOTE)
JANN PASLER Signifying Categories of the Other: Oriental vs. Arabic Music Under Colonialism MICHELLE KISLIUK ethnography and its double(s)

BREAK (Lunch/Dinner)

11:45AM – 1PM

MORE-THAN-METAPHORS

1 – 1:45PM

TREVOR REED, MODERATOR
JESSICA BISSETT PEREA (DENA’INA)
More-Than-Metaphors: Toward the Generative Possibilities of Indigenous Languages (KEYNOTE) JOHN CLEMENT WOOD
Musical Cannibalism: A Case Study of Heuretic Intersemiology as a (Pr)axis for Crossmodal Dialogue ERIN JOHNSON-WILLIAMS Musicology Is Not a Metaphor

CONCEP_S

2 – 2:45PM

ALEXANDER REHDING, MODERATOR
HOLLY WATKINS Turn and Return: The Music of Metaphor (KEYNOTE) WILL ECHARD Taking Metaphor Up a Notch: Two Ways of Being Literal JEFF KAISER Arcana and Metaphor: Value, Poetry, Myth and Ideology

CLOSING CONVERSATION

2:45 – 3:15PM

NINA EIDSHEIM & DANIEL WALDEN