“Sounds of Dissent”
A Practice-Based Research Symposium on Music, Sounds and the Political 
Dublin, 11th – 12th April 2024

With the exhibition: 21st March (launch: 4 pm) – 12 April 2024

Dear all,

You are most cordially invited to a two-day symposium on music, sounds and the political, which is hosted by DCU's faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and sponsored by the Research, Training and Networking allowance of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions—Postdoctoral Fellowship.

The selected researchers and practitioners across the disciplines will present and discuss their practice-based explorations of contemporary political phenomena that are in one way or another related to music and sounds. Here, the political is broadly defined to include various domains and experiences of life, from class struggle and questions of women’s and minority rights to community engagement, conservation and sustainability projects. The artistic media and formats used to ponder all these topics range from experimental and ethnographic filmmaking to field recordings, sonic installations and music making.

Given its artistic and activist orientation, the symposium will also include an exhibition on the ground floor of DCU Cregan Library (St Patrick's Campus) to be launched on Thursday, 21st March 2024, at 4pm. The exhibition will go on until the end of the symposium on Friday, 12 April 2024, 4pm.

We look forward to welcoming and interacting with you soon. 

With best wishes,

Jelena Gligorijević (main organizer)

Andreas Rauh (co-organizer)
 

PRELIMINARY SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME *

FIRST DAY: THURSDAY, 11 APRIL 2024

‘SOCIETY HOUSE’, 63 MERRION SQUARE, DUBLIN 2, D02 X338

09.30 – 10.00: Registration

10.00 – 10.15: A short-but-sweet welcome speech by the organizers

Panel 1

10.15 – 10.45: Laura Watson “Songs of the Irish Reproductive Rights and Repeal Movement”

10.45 – 11.15: Ahac Meden “Life of a Musician’s Biography in Datafied Representations”

11.15 – 11.45: Christina Fischer-Lessiak & Malik Sharif “‘Circle A: Making Eurodance a Threat Again’ – Practice-Based Auto-Ethnographic Reflections on Political Musicking”

Coffee & Tea Break (15 minutes)

Panel 2

12.00 – 12.30: Solomon Gwerevende “From the Participants to the Co-Researchers: Empowering Indigenous Ndau People to Use Musical Heritage for Sustainability in Zimbabwe"

12.30 – 13.00: Marcos Dias “Analysing the Role of Sound Towards Facilitating Community Engagement – The DCU CEPA Project”

Lunch Break (60 minutes)

Panel 3

14.00 – 14.30: Trish Morgan “Practice-Based Research at a Time of ‘Epochal’ Environmental Crisis – Reflections on Sound and Mixed Media for Communicating Nature in Ireland”

14.30 - 15.00: Luca Gambirasio “Il canto del lago: Sounding Ecological Care and Connections in Natural Parks and Conservation Areas in Central Italy”

15.00 – 15.30: Andreas Rauh “Rooted Resonances: Daily Indigenous Soundscapes”

Coffee & Tea Break (15 minutes)

Panel 4

15.45 – 16.15: David Vélez “On the Sonic Installation ‘The Calder in Your Bones’”

16.15 – 16.45: Michael Schofield “Memory, Transience and the Threat of Ecological Disaster: Experimental Film ‘Memorex Mori’”

Coffee & Tea Break (15 minutes)

Panel 5

17.00 – 17.30: Ben Lunn “’Our Sophisticated Weapons’ – A Reflection on a Developing Compositional Praxis”

17.30 – 18.00: Petr Nuska “Contemporary Romani Music Making: Ethnographic Documentary ‘Hopa Lide’”

18.00 – 18.30: Jelena Gligorijević “‘Brexit Shitshow’: Practice-Based Research on Post-Brexit Britain”

SECOND DAY: FRIDAY, 12 APRIL 2024

LECTURE THEATRE G114, DCU ST. PATRICK’S CAMPUS

11.00 – 11.30: Gathering over coffee & tea

Screening of the symposium participants’ PBR work in full

11.30 – 12.30: Michael Schofield’s experimental film “Memorex Mori”

Coffee & Tea Break (15 minutes)

12.45 – 13.30: A series of shorter audio or audio-visual pieces

• Luca Gambirasio “Interspecies Music: Three Birds from Tuscany”
• Ben Lunn “Our Sophisticated Weapon” (for mixed choir and ensemble)
• Trish Morgan “Sound Prescription (Fireweed)”
• Christina Fischer-Lessiak & Malik Sharif – Circle A “Dump the Bosses Off Your Back!””
• Andreas Rauh “Rooted Resonances”
• Jelena Gligorijević “Brexit Shitshow”

Coffee & Tea Break (30 minutes)

14.00 – 15.30: Petr Nuska’s ethnographic documentary film “Hopa Lide”
 

* AN EXHIBITION OF THE SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS' PBR WORK

DCU Cregan Library, ground floor

Exhibition’s overall duration: 21 March – 12 April 2024

-     Launch event: Thursday 21 March 2024, 16.00 – 17.00