Campbell, Matthew

Affective Traces: Sounds of Intimacy and the Phenomenology of the Voice in Amateur Tape Exchange during the Vietnam Conflict Matthew Campbell Cognitive Ethnomusicologist, Ohio State University, USA “It was just Continue reading →

Canova, Andrea Zarza

Making Sonic Time Capsules Andrea Zarza Canova Independent Researcher, Postgraduate student in Records and Archives Management at University College London This paper examines how the process of creating a sonic Continue reading →

Dorsett, Chris

Synaesthetic Presences: new sights from old sounds Chris Dorsett Professor of Fine Art, Northumbria University ‘The storehouses of memory … are ecologies where the materials of the world are living, Continue reading →

Ford, Felicity

Virtual sound museums: digital phonographic archives as Sonic Time Capsules Dr Felicity Ford Sonic Arts Research Unit (SARU), Oxford Brookes University This paper examines how digitally creating and archiving field-recordings Continue reading →

Gunn, David

Unhaunting: Music & Memory in Contemporary Cambodia David Gunn Founding Director of Incidental Drawing directly upon the author’s own experiences of running a range of sound 
projects in Cambodia, this Continue reading →

Henig, David

Divinity in the age of its mechanical reproduction: Sounded pedagogy among dervishes in the Western Balkans David Henig School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent The significance of sensory Continue reading →

Morgan, Deirdre

Hearing the Balinese genggong: the Jew’s harp and the anthropology of musical instruments Deirdre Morgan PhD student, Department of Music, SOAS, University of London A musical instrument is the material Continue reading →

Salazar, Diana

The Sound-Object as Spatial Signifier in Electronic Music: A Case Study of Spatial Relations in La Voz del Fuelle Dr. Diana Salazar Composer and Senior Lecturer, Department of Music, Kingston Continue reading →

Whitty, Paul

Auditory archaeology: object, text and place as Sonic Time Capsule Prof. Paul Whitty Research Director for Film, Fine Art and Music, Director of the Sonic Arts Research Unit (SARU), Oxford Continue reading →

David Toop + Max Eastley

16:00 – 17:30 (PRM Lecture Theatre) Saturday, November 24 Session 4: David Toop and Max Eastley in Conversation Two of the world’s finest thinkers and practitioners in sound, David Toop and Continue reading →

Making Live Sound Objects in the PRM, 19:00-21:00

19:00 – 21:00 Improvised Music and Sound in the Pitt Rivers Museum Gallery November 24, 2012 Between 19:00 and 21:00 the galleries of the Pitt Rivers Museum will be opened Continue reading →

Registration and Logistics

The 2012 British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual One-Day Conference REGISTRATION Spaces for this One Day Conference are limited to 70 and interest is very high. The only way to guarantee Continue reading →