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Call for
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Music and
Gesture : 2nd Musical Itineraries Forum
Lisbon, Portugal, 28 and 29 October, 2011
The Center for the Study of Sociological and Musical
Aesthetics – CESEM (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University NOVA
of Lisbon), announces the call for papers for the 2nd Musical Itineraries
Forum: ‘Music and Gesture’ taking place in Lisbon, 28 and 29 October 2011.
The Musical Itineraries Forum was established in 2010
as a meeting place for interdisciplinary debates and presentation of scientific
projects, encouraging the discussion between researchers, performers, students
and creative artists. This Forum promotes an open critical reflection on
contemporary subjects in artistic practices fields and music and sound
discourses and its relationships with other disciplines. Its main purposes are:
1) to address innovative areas of research in the fields of music and sound and
establish synergies between a variety of scientific and artistic domains
providing e opportunities for meeting and discussion between artists and
researchers from diverse origins, as well as promoting the crossover between theory and practice; 2) to
establish dynamic and interdisciplinary methodologies that will contribute
to “the state of art” advances in
this field of study, revisiting and highlighting scientific questioning and
providing the opportunity for collaboration between national and international
researchers.
The 2nd Musical Itineraries Forum, dedicated to
music and gesture will focus on the study of the relationships between sound,
music, gesture, performing arts and technology. A reflection on how the discourses of identity, culture,
power and knowledge are encoded in body gestures involved in artistic
_expression_, links the main lines of thought to be presented at this Forum.
Theater, dance, audiovisual, new technologies, and their crossover with sound
and musical _expression_ are the areas on which reflection and debate will be
developed, particularly in relation to the representation and dramaturgy of
gesture. Keynote speakers will include Atau Tanaka (Director of Culture Lab,
Newcastle University), Adam Parkinson (Culture Lab, Newcastle University) and
Paulo Ferreira de Castro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa).
We invite all those interested to submit their paper
proposals for a 20-minute presentation, on the above topics and including
title, abstract (up to 2000 characters) and five keywords. We also request a
brief biography (up to 1500
characters), a phone number and an email address, as indicated on the attached
form. Proposals should be submitted via email until 16th March 2011
to itinerariosmusicais@xxxxxxxxx and cesem@xxxxxxxxxxx.
The acceptance of proposals will be communicated until
the 10th of April 2011. All additional informations on the 2nd Musical Itineraries
Forum can be found at the CESEM’s website: http://cesem.fcsh.unl.pt.
Forum Topics:
1. Gesture,
Body, Sound and Space
·
Gesture dramaturgies in a performative context. Sound
and visual interaction and bodily
representation.
·
Relationships and ruptures between sound, visual and
scenic arts. Gesture and sound _expression_ onstage (classical, virtual, public,
hybrid… ): opera, theater, dance, audiovisual, and other artistic expressions
and practices.
·
Sound production gestures, embodying, technology and
performance.
·
Information sources for musical and scenic gesture
theatrical piece, opera and ballet libretto, film
script, iconography…). Problematics of movement notation.
2. Sound, Gesture, New technologies
·
Body virtualities, interactive gesture and sound
production: problematics, potentialities and interdependences.
·
Gesture and virtual sound spaces creation. Virtual
gesture and playability: sound and videogames, gesture and sound representation
reciprocity.
·
Performing arts and new technologies of sound and
gesture: body and instrument extension, post-human body, meta-body and
meta-instrument.
·
Semiotics, semiology and digital semantics:
transcription and representation
of sound gesture.
·
Phenomenological aspects: experience and analysis of
gesture’s embodying.
3.
Sociology of Performance Practices: discourse, representation, power and
mediation
·
The power discourses, knowledge, culture and identity
in gesture, choreography, staging and the performing arts.
·
Institutional aspects, markets, production networks,
industry and public of performative arts.
·
Performative gesture representation in the visual
arts: film, literature and other collective cultural practices.
4.
Gesture Ontologies and Performative Practices
·
Gesture, communication, language.
·
Theoretical and historical studies of gesture and body
in performance practices. Iconographic sources and dance treatises.
Choreographic notation issues in
historical musical sources.
By decision of
the Scientific Committee any proposals that do not address these topics may however be included in a free
communication session.
Coordination:
Paula Gomes Ribeiro and Isabel Pires
Scientific Committee:
Carlos Sena Caires (EA / UCP), Isabel Pires (CESEM /
UNL), Isabel Valverde (IHSIS), Luís Sousa (CESEM / UNL), Paula Gomes Ribeiro
(CESEM / UNL)
Organizing Committee (CESEM):
Beatriz Serrão, Ernesto Donoso, João Romão, Luzia
Rocha, Manuela Oliveira, Rui Araújo
Calendar:
Proposal Submissions: from 20th January to16th March
2011
Acceptance Notification: until April 10th 2011.
Language:
Portuguese, English and French
Subscriptions:
Subscription with communication including two meals :
50€
Subscription with communication without meals : Free
Entrance is free
Organization:
CESEM, FCSH, UNL
Subscription
Form / Proposals Submission
2nd Musical Itineraries
Forum: Music and Gesture
Lisbon, 28 and 29 October
2011
Please complete the
following information and send to itinerariosmusicais@xxxxxxxxx and cesem@xxxxxxxxxxx
First Name:
Last Name:
University or Institution /
Profession:
Address:
City:
Postal Code:
Country:
Telephone / Mobile:
Email:
Paper Title
Abstract (up to 2000
characters):
5 keywords:
Supplementary Informations:
Musical Itineraries Forum :
itinerariosmusicais@xxxxxxxxx
CESEM (Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética
Musical)
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade
Nova de Lisboa
Av. de Berna, 26-C 1069-061 Lisboa Portugal
cesem@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://cesem.fcsh.unl.pt
Tel. (351) 217 908 300 ext. 1496 Tm. (351) 96 555 37
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