Programme
The timetable is available as a PDF file for download [here] and the programme is available [here].
This meeting will include presentations, workshops, musical performances, and discussions which begin Tuesday afternoon, August 28th and will end on Friday afternoon, August 31st. On Wednesday and Thursday, both talks and interactive workshops will be held. There will be performances on Wednesday and Thursday nights, as well as music-making on Thursday evening. On Friday morning there will be talks and discussion, followed by lunch and departures.
Confirmed Presenters
- Prof. Pauline von Bonsdorff, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
'Rhythm, Play and Imagination' - Prof. Chris Breward, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
'Image, Object, Culture, Sound: Music in the Exhibition Space' - Dr. Steven Brown, NeuroArts Lab, McMaster University, Canada
'Music's Influence on Empathy in Film and Dance: Towards a Neural Basis' - Yati Durant, Reid School of Music, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
'Dramatic Comprehensibility in Improvised Music to Film' - Diana Gilchrist, Musician in Residence and Lecturer, BISC, Queen's University, Canada
'Between the Notes: The Use of Portamento as an Expressive Gesture in Classical Vocal Music' - Prof. Andrea Halpern, Psychology, Bucknell University
'The Neural Basis of Musical Imagery' - Dr. Shelley Katz, Director of the Symphonova Project, University of Surrey; Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University; and Musician in Residence, BISC, Queen's University
'Gestural Control of Tempo in Simultaneous Computer and Human Generated Performances' - Prof. Simon Shaw-Miller, Department of History of Art & Screen Media, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
'Trompe l'oeil, Cubism & Violins: Representing Music' - Stephanos Thomopoulos, Professor and Head of Piano Department, Conservatoire National de Nice, France
'Iannis Xenakis' Evryali and Arborescences: The role of graphic representation in composition and interpretation' - Prof. Nigel Osborne, Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
'Composing for the Moving Image' - Dr. Tom Tolley, History of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
'A Collection of Old Masters and Young Mistresses: Haydn's Music, Prints and the Visual Imagination' - Dr. Rebecca Schaefer, Reid School of Music, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
'Auditory and Visual Imagination: Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience' - Prof. Colwyn Trevarthen, Developmental Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
'Narrating the Musicality of Imagination, from Infancy' - Dr Margaret Walker, School of Music, Queen's University, Canada
'Memoirs and Miniatures: Dance Iconography from 19th-Century India'