Conference Schedule:

Friday 4/12:

1:30–2:00: Registration and welcoming – Student lounge, room 3102

2:00–4:00: Paper session: “Philosophical Influences”
Drew Nobile, session chair
Room 3491

Zachary Bernstein (CUNY Graduate Center), “Leonhard Euler’s Tentamen novae musicae theoriae and the Inheritance of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy”
Emily S. Monk (University of South Carolina), “Attali, Therapeutic Music, and Modern Consumerism”
Nathan Shields (The Juilliard School), “Nature and Transcendence in the Early Schoenberg”
James Archer (University of Durham), “Snapshots in time: image metaphors and temporal multiplicity in Adorno’s aesthetics of music”

4:00–4:15: Coffee break – Student lounge, room 3102

4:15–5:15: Paper session: “Modes of Listening”
Prof. Joseph Straus, session chair
Room 3491

Matthew Toth (Western University), “Structural Beyond Listening: Subotnik, Meillassoux, and Leif Inge’s 24 Beet Stretch”
Benjamin Hansberry (Columbia University), “What are Scale-degree Qualia?: A Critique of Cognitivism and a Philosophical Account”

5:15–6:15: Paper session: “Perspectives on Technology”
Prof. David Olan, session chair
Room 3491

Sergi Casanalles Abella (New York University), “Hyperorchestra, Hyperreality, and Inception”
Andie Sigler (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, McGill University School of Computer Science), “Ontologies for Algorithmic Music and Musical AI”

6:15–7:15: Reception – Student lounge, room 3102

10:00-10:30: Breakfast (free for conference attendees) – Student lounge, room 3102

10:30-1:00: Workshop: “New Ontologies of Music”
Prof. Benjamin Piekut (Cornell University), leader
Room 3491

1:00-2:00: Lunch (free for conference attendees) – Student lounge, room 3102

2:00-4:00: Paper session: “Analysis”
Prof. Benjamin Piekut (Cornell University), session chair
Room 3491

Dan Ruccia (Duke University), “The Correct ‘Yeah’: US Maple’s Deconstruction of the Voice”
Joshua Harris (University of North Texas), “The Body in Helmut Lachenmann’s ‘Filter – Schaukel’ from Ein Kinderspiel: A Phenomenological Analysis”
Serena Wang (CUNY Graduate Center), “The Aesthetics of Silence in Chou Wen-Chung’s Windswept Peaks and String Quartet No. 1”
Emma McConnell (Eastman School of Music), “Redefining Narrative: a path through Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments”

4:00-4:15: Coffee Break – Student lounge, room 3102

4:15-5:15: Paper session: “Opera”
Emeritus Prof. Barbara Hanning, session chair
Student lounge, room 3102

Hee Seng Kye (University of Hong Kong), “Mozart the Philosopher: Aside, Silence, and Time in La clemenza di Tito”
Lee Chambers (Texas Tech), “Orphic Voices and Intercultural Signification: Operatic Works, Recontextualized Performance, and the Metaphysics of Presence”

(To read abstracts, download a PDF of the complete program here: GSIM_2013_Program_FULL_SIZE)