Forums and symposia

Registration is essential

Adam Concert Room, New Zealand School of Music, Gate 7 Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn


Description

This full day conference will explore the far-reaching principles and implications of embodying sound in a variety of art forms.

Speakers include: Margaret Medlyn, Hamish Robb, Sally Jane Norman, David O’Donnell, Heidi Thomson, Thierry Jutel, Missy Moloy, and Miriam Ross.

Schedule:

9 am Arrivals and welcome
9.30 am Dr Hamish Robb 'Marie Jaëll: Forgotten Pioneer of Embodiment Studies'
10.10 am Dr Missy Molloy & Dr Miriam Ross. 'Sound and the Senses in the Cinema of Lucrecia Martel'

10.50 am Break

11.10 am Prof Heidi Thomson 'Silent Form: Sound and Empathy in Keats’s Poetry'
11.50 am Dr Margaret Medlyn 'Communication, Projection, Embodiment: how singers create stage presence'

12.30 pm Lunch (provided)

1.30 pm A.Prof David O’Donnell 'Voice, body and social activism in Pacific Theatre: The Conch's Stages of Change.'
2.10 pm A.Prof Thierry Jutel “First-person documentary narratives of illness: mode of address, subjectivity, and embodiment”

2.50 pm Break

3.10 pm Prof Sally Jane Norman “From recording to sampling: gesturo-haptic writing”
3.50 pm Round table
4.20 pm End


Attendance is free but registration is required by 1 April.

For more information contact: Sarah Smythe

sarah.smythe@vuw.ac.nz