CfP: Vocal Arts Symposium: June 13, Grožnjan , Croatia

Acousticity: A Symposium on Sound, Space, and Practice
International Vocal Arts Workshop, Jeunesses Musicales Croatia
June 13, 2010: Gro njan, Croatia

Submit abstracts of 300 words or less to acousticity.symposium AT gmail.com, by
May 3, 2010.

There is no such thing as an empty space, or an empty time. There is always
something to see, something to hear.” (John Cage, œExperimental Music)

Music takes place in the body, in the mind, in performance halls, in
villages, in nations: Music takes place in spaces. This symposium invites
participants to consider the spaces where we sing, play, and listen to
music. We will explore the ways music occupies space, and the ways space
changes and shapes music.  During the International Vocal Arts Workshop,
musicians grapple concretely with issues of music and space—experimmenting
with voice production, staging street theatre, and occupying various
rehearsal and performance venues throughout Grožnjan. The symposium will
provide a forum to reflect, theorize, and describe these and other musical
activities. We welcome papers from a variety of disciplines including
Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Theatre, Performance Studies, Anthropology,
Literature, History, Sociology, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Physics,
Anatomy. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

    Body, voice production and instrument-making
    Movement of music, music in exile
    Musical spaces (concert halls, recording studios, public space)
    Imaginary spaces, psychology
    Reception of music and voice
    Music on the page, on the stage
    Disembodied sound, music technologies
    Communities, political spaces, gendered spaces
    Grožnjan
    Spatial metaphors in vocal instruction
    Composition practices, structure and form, architecture
    Sound waves, circles of fifths, and other shapes in music
    Physics of space and sound, acoustics
    Music of the spheres
    Balkanization of sounds
    Performance and sexuality, identity, resistance
    Soundscapes and musical maps
    Silence and anechoic space

Symposium Coordinator: Anne Donlon (Graduate Center & John Jay College, City
University of New York)
Program Director: Jane McMahan (Barnard College, Columbia University)