UTS Music.Sound.Design Symposium 2008
February 13 - February 15
Investigating Cross - Disciplinary Practice in the Areas of Music, Sound and Design.
Featuring : Kees Tazelaar (Netherlands) / Ernest Edmonds (UK) / Yasunao Tone (Japan)
+ Many More
Three Days of Keynotes, Panels and Workshops from 10am to 6pm at UTS
Two nights of performances from 8pm at the ABC Studios, Harris St
and Robin Fox in Residence in the new UTS Interaction Studio
All free and open to the Public!
The UTS Music.Sound.Design Symposium is the first public outcome of an ongoing endeavour to bring together different approaches and fields of study related to sound.
In 2007 the deans of the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Desley Luscombe and Theo van Leeuwen, started the collaboration between design and the humanities to investigate the development of a new course. A working group was formed with researchers from both faculties with expertise in areas of study in sound and music: Shannon O'Neill, James Hurley, Norie Neumark, Theo van Leeuwen, Ben Hewett and Bert Bongers. The group was extended with Ben Byrne, hired as the coordinator to begin to investigate and develop the potential teaching curriculum as well undertake logistical planning, market research and the organisation of the symposium to launch the project.
The UTS Music.Sound.Design Project aims to bring together a variety of approaches which are traditionally separated into different fields of study and different institutions; music in conservatoriums, sound installations in art schools, acoustics and perception studies in universities, sound design in film schools and design departments, etc. Some of the program areas that UTS Music.Sound.Design seeks to encompass are:
- Acoustics, Psychology and Perception
- Auditory Culture Theory
- Instrument Design and Building
- Music/Composition
- Radiophonics
- Sonology: Creating and Understanding Sounds
- Sound Art and Installation
- Sound Design: Sound Interfaces, Products, Exhibitions and Sonifications
- Sound Engineering: Production, Recording and Live sound.
- Soundtrack: Sound for Animation, Film, Games & Theatre
The UTS Music.Sound.Design Symposium 2008 is a platform to bring together local expertise and interests as well as international contributions, to investigate and establish a common ground for music, sound and design in teaching and research. The three symposium days are planned with themed lectures and presentations in the morning and late afternoon, keynotes mid day, workshops in the afternoon and concerts in the evenings. The workshops have specific themes, related to the program areas described below, and are aimed at grounding our efforts in curriculum development towards a bachelor program aimed to commence in or before 2010, and subsequent Master's programmes for specialisations. In the meantime various activities such as the symposium but also guest lectures, workshops and some teaching are also planned.
UTS Music.Sound.Design Symposium 2008 is presented in partnership with the Centre for Media Arts Innovation.