Call for Proposals Summer Workshop on Hearing, Seeing and Imagining: Music and the Visual Arts

Call for Proposals
Summer Workshop on
Hearing, Seeing and Imagining:
Music and the Visual Arts
28
th
– 31
st
August 2012
Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex, England
The Institute for Music in Human and Social Development, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh in
collaboration with Queen’s University, Canada and the Bader International Study Centre at Herstmonceux Castle,
invites proposals for an interdisciplinary summer workshop on the topic of ‘Hearing, Seeing and Imagining: Music
and the Visual Arts’. The aim of the meeting is to bring together composers, neuroscientists, visual artists,
historians, psychologists, theorists and musicians to consider the imaginative, interactive worlds of music and the
visual arts, which may include topics such as: sound and the moving image; the neural basis of musical and visual
imagery; representations of visual art in music and music in the visual arts; the arts and social engagement; graphic
scores and musical improvisation; creative practice; sensory integration; cognitive prediction and planning; and
synaesthesia. The meeting will include talks, workshops, discussions and musical performances and will take place
in the beautiful environment of Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex.
Confirmed Presenters:
Prof. Pauline von Bonsdorff Rhythm, Play and Imagination
Prof. Chris Breward Art, Design and Music in Postwar Britain: Notes from an Exhibition
Dr Steven Brown Music's Influence on Empathy in Film and Dance: Towards a Neural Basis
Yati Durant Dramatic Comprehensibility in Improvised Music to Film
Diana Gilchrist Between the Notes: The Use of Portamento as an Expressive Gesture in
Classical Vocal Music
Prof. Andrea Halpern The Neural Basis of Musical Imagery
Dr Shelley Katz Gestural Control of Tempo in Simultaneous Computer and Human Generated
Performances
Prof. Simon Shaw-Miller Trompe l'oeil, Cubism & Violins: Representing Music
Prof. Peter Nelson Sound and Vision in Xenakis
Prof. Nigel Osborne Composing for the Moving Image
Dr Tom Tolley A Collection of Old Masters and Young Mistresses: Haydn’s Music, Prints and
the Visual Imagination
Dr Rebecca Schaeffer Auditory and Visual Imagination: Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience
Prof. Colwyn Trevarthen Narrating the Musicality of Imagination, from Infancy
Dr Margaret Walker Memoirs and Miniatures: Dance Iconography from 19th-Century India
Deadline for proposals: Friday 30
th
March 2012
For further details, please visit the workshop website:
www.music.ed.ac.uk/research/imhsd/HearingSeeingImagining2012/index.html
or contact Dr. Katie Overy at k.overy@ed.ac.uk or Dr. Karen M. Ludke at Karen.Ludke@ed.ac.uk