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Saturday, October 22, 2005

9:00 - 11:00

Session I: New historical perspectives

Chair: Marc Battier
Location Speaker Topic
McGill University Robert Gluck Towards An International History of Electroacoustic Music: Some Preliminary Observations
Esthétique et politique de la modernité musicale: positivisme et “destinée manifeste”
Anastasía Georgaki Reinventing the Greek electroacoustic music: from tradition to multidisciplinarity
Joel Chadabe Writing History and Preservation

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 12:45

Session II: (Post-)Schaefferian theory + new perspectives

Chair: John Young
Location Speaker Topic
McGill University Rolf Inge Godoy Gestural Sonorous Objects: Rethinking Schaeffer’s typo-morphological concepts
Randolph Jordan Cause and Effect: Cinema and the Tradition of Acousmatic Sound
Dante Tanzi Musical Objects and Digital Domains

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 16:00

Session III: Archiving

Chair: Leigh Landy
Location Speaker Topic
McGill University Hannah Bosma Documentation and publication of electroacoustic and multimedia compositions at NEAR: experiences and experiments
Simon Waters Making the Archive and Archiving the Making: Insights and outcomes from a major research project
Ricardo Dal Farra Something Lost, something hidden, something found: The Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection
Simon Emmerson In what form can ‘live electronic music’ live on?

16:00 - 16:30

Break

16:30 - 17:30

Session IV: The Aesthetics of preservation

Chair: Laura Zattra
Location Speaker Topic
McGill University Discussion of a new attempt to find Busoni’s missing reproducing piano recordings and convert them into digital performance editions
Daniel Teruggi   Building an International network to preserve Electroacoustic heritage, a challenge for a community  

17:30 - 18:00

EMS Network announcement of future EMS conferences & Closing