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Mapping spaces, sounding places: Geographies of sound in audiovisual media

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XIV. Symposium zur Filmmusikforschung
 Kieler Gesellschaft für Filmmusikforschung
in collaboration with Università di Pavia – Dipartimento di Musicologia e Beni Culturali (Cremona)

Cremona, 19-22 March 2019

Sound design, film music and music editing in general exert a primary function in conveying senses of space and place in audiovisual media. Strategies for connoting space and place in film sound and music vary with cinematic practices across history and according to transnational patterns of negotiation between global and local modes of production. At the same time audiovisual communication, when rich in local connotations, allows insights into specific socio-historical contexts and the documentation of human geographies. This conference aims to bring together scholars interested in mapping geographies of music and sound practices in audiovisual media (e.g. film, television, video games, interactive art). We invite fresh perspectives on film music and sound that are willing to embrace aspects ranging from individual approaches to space and place to collective geographies, also considering industrial trends and intermedia connections. Cultural, ethnographic, historical, analytical, data-driven and aesthetic approaches are welcome, as well as research on industrial and commercial practices.

Invited speakers:

  • David J. Bodenhamer, Professor of History and Director of the Polis Center (Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, USA)
  • Kevin J. Donnelly, Professor of Film and Film Music (University of Southampton, UK)
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Radio Conference 2018, Prato, Italy

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pratoradioconferenceVai realizar-se, de 10 a 13 de Julho de 2018, a 9.º Conferência de Rádio: Forum Transnacional, na cidade de Prato, Itália. O evento é uma organização conjunta da Escola de Media, Cinema e Jornalismo, da Universidade de Monash, e da Rede MeCCSA de Estudos de Rádio

Segundo a organização

this year’s conference takes inspiration from its location in Italy and the ‘Free Radio’ movement’s push for greater access to media.  In the 1970s, the Libertà d’antenna (Antenna Freedom) advocated strongly for media access by both civil society bodies and commercial interests, forcing an end to the state’s broadcasting monopoly. At the height of the movement, in mid-1978, more than 2000 independent radio stations were on air, making Italy the world leader in stations per capita. The movement not only freed up the Italian broadcasting landscape so new voices from across the political spectrum could be heard, but some stations also actively sought to break radio free from its established aesthetic through experiments in production technology, style and form.

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