Exploring a contemporary spirituality of sound
This presentation will revisit value systems around sound in relationship to developments in contemporary spiritualities In Western cultures. This will include such developments as biosonification (including new technologies), community musicking’s association with peace-making and wellbeing, the relationship between orate and literate traditions (and their relationship to colonization) and the development of ecomusicology.
The Reverend Professor June Boyce-Tillman MBE is currently Professor of Applied Music at The University of Winchester and an Extraordinary Professor at North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. She is the artistic convenor of the Centre for the Arts as Wellbeing at Winchester University, a self-supporting priest in the Anglican Church, and an honorary chaplain to Winchester Cathedral. In 2009 she received an MBE for her services to Music and Education.
DJ Minimalism, Black Market Sounds, the House Revolution: Sounding Legacies of Cold War Exchange in Riga, 1975-2000
This presentation will trace paths of exchange for artists, ideas, recordings, and technologies between the Cold War West and Soviet Latvia from the 1970s through 1991. Drawing on archival documents and historical recordings, I will highlight distinct local musics created in response to Western artistic currents. I will also point to ways in which some artists' formative experiences with 1980s sounds and technologies shaped ways of making music that persisted through the turn of the millennium.
Kevin C. Karnes is Professor of Music and Divisional Dean of Arts at Emory University (Atlanta, USA), and Visiting Professor of Musicology at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. His most recent book is Sounds Beyond: Arvo Pärt and the 1970s Soviet Underground (2021). His latest research considers techno music and club culture as both product and reflection of transnational exchange across reimagined European borders at the turn of the 1990s.
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