CONF: Harvard University Music Conference: Music / Technology / Media, Cambridge, 25 Feb 2012

Harvard Department of Music
Paine Hall, Room 9
Cambridge, Massachusetts

February 25, 2012

Morning Panel: 10:00-11:30 am
Dr. Christopher Hasty, Moderator

>From Hydraulis to Hyperorgan: The Pipe Organ, Technology and the Quest for Maximal Agency
Dr. Randall Harlow, Cornell University

Auto-Tune: Coming Clean
Marissa Steingold, University of California Los Angeles

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and the Power of Suggestion
Damien McCaffery, University of Glasgow

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Midday Panel: 1:00-2:30 pm
Dr. Ingrid Monson, Moderator

Virtual Mridangam: South Indian Percussion Education in the Internet Era
Rohan Krishnamurthy, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

Sounding Reserves: Potentiality, Political Economics, and Protest Song in the Digital Archive
Margaret Bissler, The Ohio State University School of Music

Electric Desert: The Electric Guitar, the mp3, and the Moorish Griot in Nouakchott
Phil Babcock, Tufts University

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Afternoon Panel:L 3:00-4:30 pm
Dr. Sindhu Revuluri, Moderator

Science, Technology, and Sound Design in Gojira/Godzilla (Honda, 1954)
Brooke McCorkle, University of Pennsylvania

Virtue/Virtuosity/Virtuality
Mike D'Errico, University of California Los Angeles

Staging the Backstage at “The Met: Live in HD”
James Steichen, Princeton University

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Keynote Address: 5:00-6:00 pm

Analog vs. Digital: Technocultural Choice and the Hip-hop DJ
Dr. Mark Katz, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Reception to follow