> The UC Santa Barbara Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) is
> sponsoring an interdisciplinary graduate conference entitled Music and the
> Moving Image . This conference seeks to explore the interaction between the
> moving image (film, television, digital media, etc.) and music, sound, and
> even "silence" through a wide variety of interdisciplinary approaches. The
> conference is organized by graduate students, for graduate students, and will
> be held in the UCSB Music Building on January 14th and 15th, 2006. With the
> exception of the film screening on Saturday night, the conference is free and
> open to the public. Admission to the film screening of The Call of Cthulhu is
> $3 for the public and free for conference participants.
>
> Please see the conference schedule below. Additional information can be found
> at the conference website:
> http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicmovingimage.
>
>
> CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
>
> Saturday January 14, 2006
>
> 9:00-10:00 Registration and Breakfast for Conference Participants (Music
> Building)
>
> *Saturday Morning Sessions
>
> 10:00-12:00
>
> Space, Location, and the Mise-en-Scene (Music 1145)
> * Nathan Platte (University of Michigan), "The Hungarian, theHappy Farmer, and
> 'Home, Sweet Home': Elevating Musical Quotation inHerbert Stothart's Score for
> The Wizard of Oz"
> * Michael Hetra (San Francisco State University), "The Music ofGodard's Le
> Mepris and Week End"
> * Patrick Morganelli (University of Southern California), "The Useof Solo
> Piano in Film Scoring"
> * Jonas Westover (City University of New York), "Frame by Frame:An Homage to
> West Side Story in Demy's Les Demoiselles deRochefort"
>
> Sound and the Real (Geiringer Hall)
> * Lucia Ricciardelli (University of California, Santa Barbara),"American
> Documentary Practice and the Crisis of WesternHistoricism: Deconstructing the
> 'Truth' of Omniscient Narration"
> * Anita Ip (University of California, Santa Barbara), "A Boatrideon the
> Wonkatania: Madness in Film and Opera "
> * "Sound Putty" and "Bit Signal Fabric": A PanelDiscussion of Two New Digital
> Installations
>
>
> *Lunch Break
>
> 12:00-1:30
>
> Lunch for Conference Participants (Courtyard or MCC)
>
> Installation: "Sound Putty"
> Installation: "Bit Signal Fabric"
> Display: "The Music of Bernard Herrmann: An Archival Exhibition" (LLCH)
> Sponsored by UCSB Libraries Department of Special Collections
>
>
> *Saturday Afternoon Sessions
>
> 1:30-3:00
>
> Myth, Sound Editing, and the Music Video (Music 1145)
> * Amy Parker (University of Glasgow), "The Pop Video andRoland Barthes'
> Mythologies"
> * Peter Kaye (Kingston University), "The Anatomy of a ModernAction Cue"
> * Tim Rush, Sound Editing Demonstration
>
> The Horror, the Horror!: Sounding the Visceral (Geiringer Hall)
> * Russell Knight (University of California, Santa Barbara), "TheVoice of the
> Wound: Lavinia's Double Death in Julie Taymor'sTitus"
> * Daniel Steinhart (University of California, Los Angeles),"Monster Music:
> Sound and Music in the First ThreeFrankenstein Films"
> * Kelly Kirshtner (University of California, Irvine), "A CinemaWithout Organs:
> Musical Values and Fields of Vibration in HorrorFilm"
>
>
> 3:15-4:45
>
> The Sights and Sounds of Experimentation: 1965-1975 (Music 1145)
> * Jessica Payette (Stanford University), "Musical CounterpointTranslated into
> Film: Alfred Leslie's Birth of a Nation"
> * Utako Kurihara (Kyusyu University), "The InterrelatedDevelopment of Music,
> Color Selection, and Composition of the ScreenPicture in Norman McLaren's
> Synchromy"
> * Joshua Neves (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Two-Lane Blacktop,
> Film Sound and Spectatorship"
>
> New Directions: Temporality, Spatiality, and Contemporary European Film
> (Geiringer Hall)
> * Travis Allen (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Musicand Society in
> Run Lola Run"
> * Senta Siewert (University of Amsterdam), "'Rhythm ofYouth. Contemporary
> German Films: New Anti-heroes, Pop Music andCinematic Experience"
> * Shauna Laurel Jones (University of California, Santa Barbara),"Distance
> Makes the Mountains Blue: Music and Icelandic Landscape inNoi Albinoi"
>
>
> *Saturday Evening
>
> 5:00-6:15
>
> Keynote Address : "Film Themes: Roxy, Adorno, and the Problem of Cultural
> Capital" (LLCH)
> Prof. Rick Altman (University of Iowa)
>
> 8:00-10:00
>
> Film Screening: The Call of Cthulhu
> <http://www.cthulhulives.org/cocmovie/index.html> followed by talk-back with
> screen writer Sean Branney (LLCH)
> Admission $3. Free for conference participants.
>
> Sunday January 15, 2006
>
> 9:00-10:00 Breakfast for Conference Participants (Music Building)
>
> *Sunday Morning Sessions
>
> 10:00-12:00
>
> Music Across Media in the Early 20th Century (Music 1145)
> * Ciaran Crilly (University College Dublin), "Sounding the Image:Musical and
> Cinematic Composition in Satie's Entr'acte"
> * Bartholomew Brinkman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign),"Movies,
> Modernity and all that Jazz: Langston Hughes' Montage of aDream Deferred"
> * Edmond Johnson (University of California, Santa Barbara),"Figaro! Figaro!
> Figaro?: The Intersection of Animation andOpera in Looney Tunes and Merrie
> Melodies"
> * Matt Mooney (University of California, Irvine), "Between theReels: Live
> Performance in the Motion Picture Theatre, 1905-1915"
>
> Visualizing Rock & Roll (Geiringer Hall)
> * Suzanne Scott (University of Southern California),"'Shitty Pictures, Man.
> Every Single One.': Negotiating Mythin the Elvis Films of the 1960s"
> * Carlos Kase (University of Southern California), "Avant-GardeFilmmaking and
> Pop Culture Deviance: The Adaptation of Rock & RollMusic and Mythos in the
> films of Kenneth Anger"
> * Paul N. Reinsch (University of Southern California), "The Beatsand the
> Brats: 50s Lipstick Traces in the Song and Film BlankGeneration"
> * Annabelle Honess Roe (University of Southern California),"Manchester, Music
> and Myth in 24 Hour Party People"
>
>
> *Lunch Break
>
> 12:00-1:00
>
> Lunch for Conference Participants (Courtyard or MCC)
>
> Installation: "Sound Putty"
> Installation: "Bit Signal Fabric"
>
>
> *Sunday Afternoon
>
> 12:00-1:00
>
> Performance: "Entr'acte" (LLCH)
>
> 2:00-3:00
>
> End of Conference Reception (Location TBA)
>
> –
> Music and the Moving Image: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
> January 14-15, 2006 at the University of California, Santa Barbara
> http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicmovingimage/