[ANPPOM-L] CFP: Sound Installation and Situated Sonic Practices

[Carlos Palombini]

Call for Abstracts: "Sound Installation and Situated Sonic Practices"

Architecture/Music/Acoustics
International Cross-Disciplinary Conference
soundaXis and Ryerson University
Toronto, Ontario
June 8-10 2006

Dear friends and colleagues,

Ryerson University in Toronto and soundaXis are coordinating a 3-day,
interdisciplinary conference on Architecture/ Music/ Acoustics in June
2006. I am organizing a session on "Sound Installation and Situated
Sonic Practices" (please see description below). I'd like to invite 
anyone interested in participating to submit an abstract for a paper to 
be considered for inclusion in the session. Abstracts can be up to 300
words in length and are due by October 31st, 2005.

Gascia Ouzounian
Critical Studies/Experimental Practices area
Faculty of Music
University of California, San Diego

-- SESSION DESCRIPTION: Sound Installation and Situated Sonic Practices 
Sound installation is an art form in which properties of space, and of 
place, are explored through an interface with sound objects. An 
interdisciplinary genre that draws on music, visual arts, and media-arts 
traditions, sound installations may include interactive or 
performance-based elements and may be networked across multiple and 
hybrid (real, virtual, and imagined) spaces and times. In contrast to 
traditional music practices that emphasize temporal aspects of sound, 
sound installations highlight the relationship of sound to spatialized 
forms, whether these are architectural forms, social forms, imaginary 
spaces, or otherwise. In this session, we will explore works by sound 
installation artists, developing new models for theorizing sonic-spatial 
practices. This will include a general field of "situated sonic 
practices," which puts into focus space- and place-based aspects of 
sonic experience. Space is considered here as the multiple and hybrid 
physical, social, political, and/or historical settings of cultural 
production, while place is imagined as the relationships between 
elements in a network at a given moment. Situated sonic practices take 
into consideration not only aspects of the built environment, 
architectures, and social spaces, but also the temporal dimension of 
space as expressed through memory and history. They may engage contested 
modes of knowledge such as "the experience of sound" and other embodied 
objectivities. Please e-mail 300-word abstracts by 31 October 2005 to: 
amaconf em ryerson.ca Please send questions about this session to: Gascia 
Ouzounian, Session Chair gouzouni em ucsd.edu For more information about 
the conference, please visit: http://ryerson.ca/arch/conference.htm

-- 
carlos palombini
diretor
centro de pesquisa em música contemporânea
universidade federal de minas gerais
cpmc-ufmg
<palombini em terra.com.br>