Music and the Production of Place
UTS Symposium 
Friday, 9th May, 9:30am till late
UTS Building 4, Room 324
Harris Street, Ultimo
Free Entry
Summary: The symposium, supported by TfC, will examine various ways in which musicians produce place, either in terms of the 'psychogeographies' of living spaces, cityspaces and landscapes (as defined by Guy Debord in 1955 as 'the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals'), or through the transnational evocation of lost homelands, spaces of migration, or syncretic expressions of a plurality of places.
Invited speakers will give seminars on the relations between a wide range of different musical forms of production from 'art music' to hip hop and the places both where they are produced and that they produce, and a selection of papers will be published later in the year in a special issue of Transforming Cultures eJournal.
Keynote speaker: Professor Theo van Leeuwen
Speakers include: Prof. George McKay (Uni of Salford, UK); Jeff Browitt (TfC, UTS); Peter Doyle (Macquarie Uni); Chris Gibson (Uni of Wollongong); Helen Hopcroft (Newcastle Uni); Linda Kouvaras (Uni of Melbourne); Tony Mitchell (TfC, UTS); Suzan Piper (TfC, UTS); Wire MC.
Includes a Jam Session
See the full event flier here.
Contact Tony Mitchell for more information.
