Keyboard Networks:
Interrogating the Cultures and Technologies of Music at the Keyboard
Conference Schedule
FRIDAY, March 4th
Lincoln Hall B20
2:00 pm
KEYNOTE I: Deirdre Loughridge (University of California, Berkeley)
How Do Keyboards Network?
3:15-5:30 pm
PANEL I: Phantom BodiesErica Levenson, chair
Ryan MacEvoy McCullough and Shin Hwang Schubert's Four-Hand: Music for Collaborative Play
Allison Wente (University of Texas at Austin) Phantom Fingers at Work: Selling the Player Piano in a Changing Musical Marketplace
Dietmar Friesenegger Rubinstein’s Nightmare: A Pianistic Utopia and its Competitive Reality
Barnes Hall Auditorium
8:00 pm
LECTURE RECITAL: Kenneth Hamilton (Cardiff University), piano
Unauthorized Versions: Dogma and Heresy in the Performance of Chopin and Liszt
SATURDAY, March 5th
Lincoln Hall B20
9:00 am-noon
PANEL II: Rehearing Agency
Sara Haefeli (Ithaca College), chair
Rob Haskins (University of New Hampshire) John Cage’s Music as Models of Sociopolitical Action: Three Approaches to the Piano
Mackenzie Pierce Fryderyk Chopin and the Geography of Memory
Aya Saiki Murmuring Machines: Vocal Synthesis and the Keyboard Interface
Ryan MacEvoy McCullough and Andrew Zhou
Reconstituting (and Rehearing) the Networks of Modul 69B: A Performance Project of Stockhausen’s Mantra for two pianos and electronics
12:00-1:00 pm
Lunch break1:00-3:15 pm
PANEL III: Temporal CrossingsBecky Lu, chair
Daniel Walden (Harvard University) Decoding Tristan Perich's Dual Synthesis
Matthew Hall Anxieties over Bach: Nineteenth-Century Keyboards and ‘Authenticity’
Roger Moseley Grids and Filters: Chopin’s Technologies of Concealment and Disclosure
3:15-3:45 pm
Break3:45-4:45 pm
KEYNOTE II: James Q. Davies (University of California, Berkeley) Network Analogies: The Keyboard as Field of Imperial PlayBarnes Hall Auditorium
8:00 pm
Annette Richards and David Yearsley, organ, harpsichord, and fortepiano; Bug Davidson, video
Charles Burney’s Musical Tour
See the trailer here (scroll down to bottom).