Schedule

Preliminary Conference Program

Monday June 10

Tuesday June 11

09:30-12:30	Workshop: Acoustic Ecology in Bologna	Sponsored Session (Analytical Approaches to Music of South Asia journal): Analytical Approaches to South Asian Musics Richard Widdess: Melodic Elaboration in Indian music: a Syntactical Analysis of Ālāp in Rāg Bhairav. Arati Rao: Rāga Improvisation in South Indian Art Music – A Comparison of the Caturdaṇḍī Ālāpa with Modern Ālāpana. Ron Cohen: Can MIR Tools Help Us to Codify the Implicit Rules of Orally Transmitted Music? Quantified Analysis in Hindustani Music towards a Theory of Voice leading assisted by Music Information Retrieval (MIR) Tools.	Computational Analyses Lucas Simões Maia, Richa Namballa, Martín Rocamora, Magdalena Fuentes, and Carlos Guedes: Characterizing Audio Problems in a Large Dataset of Field Recordings for Computational Analysis. Tristan Repolusk: An AI-Powered Asisstant for Facilitated Manual Digitization of Ancient Chinese Suzipu Notation. Asterios Zacharakis and Emilios Cambouropoulos: The Evolution of Stelios Kazantzidis’ Voice from the 1950s to the 1970s. Levan Shugliashvili, David Shugliashvili, Nana Mzhavanadze, and Frank Scherbaum: Computational Analysis of Tbilisi State Conservatoire’s Corpus of Field Recordings of Traditional Georgian Polyphonic Vocal Music. [online poster presentation]
12:30-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:30	Vocal Timbre Anastasiia Mazurenko: Regional Characteristics of the Timbre of Traditional Ukrainian Singing Defined by Computational Approaches. Ilaria Meloni: The Javanese “Artistic Voice”: A Proposal for Timbral and Stylistic Analysis through an Ethno-Phoniatric Lens.	Instruments Maisie Sum: Tracing Trajectories of Morocco’s Iconic Lute. Thea Tiramani: Keyboard Arrangers and Cultural Adaptation. Impact of Electronic Arrangers on Traditional Oral Musicians.	Alternative Format Presentations Suresh Vaidyanathan and Adrian Sherriff: Speaking through Percussion: Tala, Solkattu and the Tala Vadya Kacceri (lecture recital). Giacomo Boschi: Short-Movie: “First Ethnographic Note” (short film with commentary).
15:30-16:15	Coffee break
16:15-18:45	Sponsored Session (Organizing Committee): Creating a Pipeline: Introducing Students to World Music Analysis Michael Tenzer: Retrospection on a Periodicity Seminar. Anna Yu Wang: Developing a Globally Conscious Music Theory Pedagogy. Jane Piper Clendinning: World Music Analysis in the Undergraduate Music Theory Core. Cara Stroud: How Can I Teach World Music When I’m Not an Expert? Vivek Virani: Feeling the World’s Musics in 15 Weeks? Lessons from Teaching World Music Analysis at UNT.
19:30-22:00	Evening event

Wednesday June 12

09:30-11:45	Panel Session: Garrett Groesbeck, Christopher Molina, and Colleen C. Schmuckal: Exploring Vocabularies in Japanese Music.	Global Perspectives Rainer Polak and Nori Jacoby: Biological Constraints and Cultural Possibilities in Rhythm Perception. Michael Tenzer: Papuan Flute and Bach Fugue: Analytical Space for Comparing the Radically Unalike. Christian Ferlaino: The Musicality of Sounding Objects.	Sacred Sounds Misaki Goto: Exploring Innate Musicality: A “Proto-Linguistic Approach” to Music Analysis through a Case Study of Japanese Shamanism. Mohamed Haseeb Nechiyil and Jisha Krishnan EK: Where the Sea Meet the Emotion: Translating the Sacred Sounds of Malabar. Francesca Cassio: Lost in Translocality. A Musical Analysis of Gurbani Kirtan’s Heterometric Compositions and their Isometric Incarnations.
11:45-13:15	Lunch break
13:15-15:30	Panel Session: Lara Pearson, Rainer Polak, and Samuel Horlor: Audiency Beyond the Concert Hall: An Interaction-based, Music-theoretical Approach.	Non-Isochrony and Microtiming Nathan Bernacki: A Choreomusical Comparison of Beat-Level Non-Isochrony: Perspectives from Balkan and San Music and Dance. Rytis Ambrazevičius: The Inégales Rule and the Phenomenon of “Extreme Folklorisation.” Dave Fossum: Microtiming as a Marker of Innovation and Stylistic Lineage in Turkmen Dutar Performance.	Modality Costas Tsougras: Analyzing the Hybrid Modality of Greek Rebetiko and its Evolution: Modal and Harmonic Paths in Selected Songs. Jun Feng: Musical Variations in Chinese Shawm Music: Gongdiao Theory in Practice and “Operational Theory.”
15:30-16:15	Coffee break
16:15-18:45	Sponsored Session (Program Committee): Innovations in Notation Andre Holzapfel: How many engineers does it take to transcribe a Cretan dance tune? Carlos Yoder: CTS: A System for Transcribing and Transmitting Konnakol and Other Vocal Percussion Traditions. Martin Clayton: Visualising Musicians’ Movements from Video Recordings. Frank Scherbaum: Harmonygrams: A Graphical Notation System for Three-Voiced Music Facilitating the Perception of Harmonies.

Thursday June 13

09:30-12:30	Workshop: How does enculturation affect transcription? Create and compare digital annotations in a live scientific experiment with the VocalNotes team.	Panel Session: Renzi, Nicola: Indigenous and Ecological Knowledge in Music Analysis.
12:30-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:30	Free Rhythm Martin Clayton and Sayumi Kamata: Metre and Free Rhythm in Gagaku Music: Empirical Perspectives on Formal Hierarchy and Interaction. Alan Dodson, Anna Gagné, Anna Gordon, and Kiran Steele: Pulse Animations: Representing Periodicity in Flexible Solo Recordings.	Teaching and Learning Alex Rossi: Transcriptions of Andean Siku Music in the California Bay Area. Alaba Ilesanmi: Teaching African Popular Music in Western Classrooms using Indigenized Pedagogical and Analytical Approaches.	Music in Theatre and Film Adeolu Ogunsanya: Content and Musicological Analyses of the Musical Motifs in Selected Dramatic Works of Wọlé Ṣóyínká and Fẹ́mi Ọ̀ṣọ́fisan. Hanisha Kulothparan: The Evolution of the Hero’s Introduction: Topic and Intercultural Trope in Kollywood Film Music.
15:30-16:15	Coffee break
16:15-18:45	Sponsored Session (Organizing Committee): Recent Approaches to the Analysis of Timbre in World Musics Lynn Whidden: Timbre and the Tangled Bank. Moshe Morad: Timbre and “Silsulim” (Improvised “Curls”) in the Vocal Performance of Israeli Popular Music: Social Identity, Power, and Politics. Kristen Jonzon: A Multi-modal Model for a Dynamic Music Theory. Eshantha Peiris: Timbre as a Dynamic Characteristic of Musical Sound Jay Rahn & Markos Koumloulas: Partials, Harmonics, Formants, Critical Bands, and Pitches in Stable Didjeridú Tones. Lawrence Shuster & Dhruv Kothari: Tone Color Spaces and Transformational Pathways: A New Approach to Modeling the Sonic Design of Tabla Drum Strokes, their Corresponding Bol Syllables, and Rhythmic Tala in the Banaras Gharana School.

Friday June 14

09:30-11:45	Transformations and Innovations Stover, Chris: “New Claves are being Composed all the Time!”: Syncretic Transformations in Contemporary Afro-Cuban Practices. Adrian Sherriff and Suresh Vaidyanathan: Drumming for a Bag of Money: Innovation within the Mora Form. Simon Mills: Structures, Patterns, and Processes: An Analysis of Intercultural Creativity in the Formulation of a New Shinawi.	Interaction Judith E. Olson: “This is My Jazz” – Improvisation Techniques Shared between Musicians and Dancers in Rural Hungarian Dance in Transylvania. Giovanni Giuriati: Performing ‘Sathukhar’. Collective Performing Practice in Khmer Pinpeat Music: Analysis of the Melodic and Rhythmic Interaction among the Instruments of the Ensemble. John Napier: Sounding Unity in Segregated Spaces: Vālaga in South India.	Music of Nationalism Despoina Panagiotidou: Nationalizing Kalamatianós and Performing ‘Greekness’ in Art Music. Anna Stirr: Notating Sorati: Subi Shah’s Nepali Dance Notation as Nationalist “Classicism.” Eileen Karmy: The Politics of Workers’ Songs During the Rise of the Chilean Labour Movement.
11:45-13:15	Lunch break
13:15-15:30	Notation Lauge Dideriksen: The Notational Tesseract: Time and Weight in Transcription of Metrical Music. Mason Brown: Translating Sargam: Issues and obstacles with South Asian Notation and Sibelius. Galina Sychenko: The Use of Computer Programmes in Notation of Oral Vocal Music: To the Structures of Scales.	Rhythm and Cyclicity Stephen Parkhurst: Rhythm in Sign Language Expressive Arts: A Temporal-Unit Approach. Taees Gheirati: Rhythm Cycles in Eastern Khorasani Chaharbeiti. Jason Yin Hei Lee: Cyclic Formal Organization in Cantonese Narrative Song Jyut’au (粵謳): An Analysis of “Toufaasin”(桃花扇).	Vocal Genres Zara Fox: Global Meta-analysis of Notated Hebrew Recitation Traditions with Cladistics. Peter Fielding: Post-Tonal and Kodály Analyses of Traditional Vocal Repertoire of Central Visayas (Philippines). Leslie Tilley: Alternative’s Alternatives: Radical Reimaginings of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
15:30-16:15	Coffee break
16:15-18:45	Sponsored Session (Local Arrangements Committee): Carang Pring Wulung: Analyzing Calung Music from Banyumas (Central Java) through the Filmic Medium. Film Projection Roundtable discussion with: Giovanni Giuriati Marco Lutzu Daniele Zappatore