Appel de conférences pour le colloque « Reembodied Sound 2024. A festival and symposium on transducer-based music and sonic art », EMPAC, Troy (NY), 2-3 février 2024.

« In simplest terms, a transducer is a device that converts one form of energy into another form. In the wake of composer John Cage’s work, everyday items, anything from household appliances to industrial detritus, became ripe for musical exploration. In 1973, Cage’s colleague and collaborator David Tudor created Rainforest IV, which used “surface speakers”—an electric transducer—to excite the sonic possibilities of such objects. 50 years later, music which utilizes speaker transducers and “contact” microphones (another type of transducer) have become more ubiquitous, able to unlock the musical potential of the world around us.

The Department of Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute invites submissions for an interdisciplinary symposium focusing on the growing use of transducers in music and sonic art—a subject that has received limited attention as a unified practice. Co-presented with the curatorial program of Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, the symposium brings together composers, sound artists, scholars, researchers, and engineers to investigate issues of aesthetics, ethnography, technical design, compositional techniques, and pedagogy. Our goal is to share practical information, inspire artists with new tools and possibilities, and lay a foundation for scholarly discourse and technological investigation in this burgeoning field. »

Date limite de soumission : 17 novembre 2023.

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