Full Programme Sonologia 2016 – Out of Phase

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ORGANISING NuSom, Núcleo
de Pesquisas em
COMMITTEE Sonologia
USP, Universidade
de São Paulo
Fernando Iazzetta
Lílian Campesato
Rui Chaves
CONFERENCE Centro de Pesquisa
e Formação SESC
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Barreto, 285 - Bela Vista,
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CONCERT CCSP Centro Cultural
São Paulo
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Paraíso, São Paulo
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CONTENTS
USEFUL INFO 4
MAP 5
SCHEDULE 8
SONOLOGIA 2016 10
CPF SESC SÃO PAULO 11
NUSOM 12
KEYNOTES 14
PANELS 20
PAPER SESSIONS 25
CONFERENCE CONCERT 48
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 49
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SCHEDULE SONOLOGIA 2016
22 NOV TUESDAY 23 NOV WEDNESDAY 24 NOV THURSDAY 25 NOV FRIDAY
09H00 – 10H30 10H00 – 11H30 10H00 – 11H30 10H00 – 11H30
REGISTRATION KEYNOTE II KEYNOTE III KEYNOTE IV
GEORGINA BORN ALEJANDRA BRONFMAN CATHY LANE
10H30 – 11H00
WELCOME & OPENING 11H30 – 13H00 11H30 – 13H00 11H30 – 13H00
PAPER SESSION #5 PANEL II PAPER SESSION #10
11H00 – 12H30
KEYNOTE I 13H00 – 14H30 13H00 – 14H30 13H00 – 14H30
RODOLFO CAESAR LUNCH BREAK LUNCH BREAK LUNCH BREAK
12H30 – 14H00 14H30 – 16H00 14H30 – 16H30 14H30 – 16H30
LUNCH BREAK PANEL I PAPER SESSION #8 PAPER SESSION #11
14H00 – 16H00 16H00 – 16H30
16H30 – 17H00 16H30 – 17H00
PAPER SESSION #1 & #2 BREAK
BREAK BREAK
16H00 – 16H30 16H30 – 18H30 17H00 – 19H00 17H00 – 18H30
BREAK PAPER SESSION #6 & #7 PAPER SESSION #9 PANEL III
16H30 – 18H30 20H30 20H30
PAPER SESSION #3 & #4 CONFERENCE CONCERT CONFERENCE MEET UP
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SONOLOGIA 2016 OUT OF PHASE CENTRO DE PESQUISA E FORMAÇÃO

SESC SÃO PAULO
Sonologia 2016 – Out of and politics of sound; cultural Sesc São Paulo has joined the In this sense, sound allows the
Phase is an international and technological critiques; Research Centre on Sonology approximation of different areas
event that comes at a time sound art and associated praxis; from the University of São of knowledge, contributing
where the field of sound urban phonography and acoustic Paulo (NuSom) in creating the to the incorporation of new
studies – designated locally as ecology; sonic epistemologies; Sonologia 2016 – Out of Phase, approaches that prompt new
Sonologia since the 2000s – new musicology and historically an international conference that insights into the experience
has been consolidated in Brazil situated reflections. has sound as a central element and creative developments
and marked by a distinctive that enables the intersection of related to sound. Instigating
emphasis on cross-disciplinary This framework contextualises different areas of knowledge. the multi-modality of senses,
research: computer science and the ‘out of phase’ theme, that Beyond the arts, sound is sound can be treated as a way
acoustics; anthropology; gender while referring to a technical present in people's everyday of exploring the world, offering
studies; cultural, performance and theoretical jargon in life, heard in the changing city new modes of knowledge and
and media studies; new sound, encompasses a strong soundscapes and in the ever transformation.
musicology; experimental, metaphorical stance towards the increasing use of sound in
popular and contemporary need to incorporate views that products and services. Throughout the international
music; and sound art. are of out-of-sync or in opposite conference Sonologia
polarity regarding a possible Changes in the sonic 2016 - Out of Phase, we
In this sense, we hope to familiarity in contemporary sonic context allow an expansion intend to discuss a wide
promote work done both theory and practice. of repertoire, reverberating range of issues. In this way,
nationally and in Latin America. in the ways we create and Sesc hopes to contribute in
In doing so, we aim in imagine sound. Technological expanding possible critical and
establishing fruitful dialogues innovations, pertaining to contemporary discussions
with researchers coming from recording, production, reception regarding sound. SESC
other parts of the world, while and diffusion are parallel to
enabling a platform for new political, environmental and
perspectives regarding current aesthetic concerns, producing
discussions in the field. This new discourses and theories
includes the study of warfare within this field of studies.
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NUSOM RESEARCH CENTER ON SONOLOGY
its facilities and equipment to how musical practices have

other groups and organisations; been directed, influenced
promoting research transfer or restricted by the devices,
activities, such as workshops, techniques and tools that
meetings and seminars; have been applied in musical
For the last 15 years, a group of integrating the production of and using/promoting locally production. In the same
artists and scholars interested creative works, technological developed technologies. direction, the SONOLOGIA
in intersecting artistic research and critical reflection 2016 – Out of Phase, proposes
production and academic in a unified process. These elements frame the a critical perspective of the use
research have been working group’s interest in exploring of sound in different contexts.
together at the University of This collective endeavour is the possibilities brought by In this respect, NuSom has
São Paulo. Although the group solidified by three processes. technology and the sonic expanded the scope of its
includes people from different 1) An emphasis on arts to engage with different research interests to include
backgrounds - from music to collaborative creative social groups. Nonetheless, social and political aspects
visual arts and engineering – processes that focus on shared by promoting performances that are implicated in the use
their main interest is sound authorship. This has allowed in non-regular venues such of sound technologies in the
and its connections with us to integrate people from as parks, galleries and open artistic domain.
art, science, technology and different areas such as sound spaces while using handmade
society. Since 2012, this art, architecture and computer electronic instruments and
interdisciplinary collaborative science. 2) An inclination other sonic gadgets, the
effort has been taking place at towards experimentation. group also adheres to a more
NuSom – Research Centre on Although the group is not critical view of technological
Sonology at the University of associated with any specific exploration within creative
São Paulo. This cluster is the aesthetic orientation, the practice. This perspective is
result of successive research choice of an experimental clear in the overall thematics of
projects converging on the attitude reflects its proposal for two international conferences
above described themes. an integration between creative organized by NuSom in
Funded both by the University production and research 2016. The 12th International
of São Paulo and Fapesp (São activities. 3) A commitment Symposium on Computer
Paulo Research Foundation), towards engaging the group Music Multidisciplinary
NuSom’s main goal is to and its infrastructure with the Research (CMMR) focused
overcome the boundaries wider community: co-curating, on the idea of “Bridging
between artistic production producing and participating People and Sound”, inviting
and scientific research by in events; allowing access to the participants to reflect on
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KEYNOTES RODOLFO CAESAR
KEYNOTE I . 22 NOV 2016 . 11H00 – 12H30

RODOLFO CAESAR (KEYNOTE I) Tecnographic listening: Rodolfo Caesar is a professor at
an experiment in feedback UFRJ School of Music in Rio de
22 NOV . 11H00 – 12H30
Abstract: A feedback-loop Janeiro. He studied in the early
Tecnographic listening: an experiment in feedback
involving electroacoustic days of the Instituto Villa-Lobos, as
devices and my own perception it was conceived and coordinated
GEORGINA BORN (KEYNOTE II) resulted in my ‘discovery’ of by Reginaldo Carvalho. There began
something that was all the time Rodolfo’s interest in the relationship
23 NOV . 10H00 – 11H30
in front of my nose. By using between new technologies and
On nonhuman sound: sound as relation
the notion of technographic music. Having been a Pierre
traces I attempt to describe Schaeffer’s ‘stagiaire’ , he graduated
the process in which in electroacoustic music at the
ALEJANDRA BRONFMAN (KEYNOTE III)
technologies reveal some sort CNSM de Paris. Since then, Rodolfo
of subjectivity. I will need to composes autonomous pieces, or
24 NOV . 10H00 – 11H30
draw analogies with the rocking works related to other arts, such
Laura Boulton, Ethnomusicology, and the materiality
of trains or chemically altered as dance, theater, cinema, poetry
of media
states of consciousness: and the visual arts. His pieces are
from Paul Valéry’s prose to displayed in galleries or museums,
cartesian rationalism. The or played in concerts and radio
CATHY LANE (KEYNOTE IV)
overall objective is not just broadcasts. His current research
25 NOV . 10H00 – 11H30 to acknowledge technology’s project, funded by CNPq (National
Disordering our Listening role in shaping perception and Counsel of Technological and
understanding, but to picture Scientific Development), addresses
situations, in music, where it is music’s different materialities, as
important to locate it. it questions bio-acoustics and
contemporary musical aesthetics.
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GEORGINA BORN
Georgina Born is Professor of
Music and Anthropology at Oxford
KEYNOTE II . 23 NOV 2016 . 10H00 – 11H30
University and a Professorial Fellow
of Mansfield College. Georgina
Born’s work combines ethnographic
On nonhuman sound: that places the nonhuman in and theoretical writings on music,

sound as relation symmetrical relation to the media and cultural production. Her
Abstract: How should we human, for sound is both co- ethnographies have often focused
conceptualise sound? Does produced nonhumanly –– as on major institutions – television
the conceptualization of sound an apparently independent production at the BBC, computer
as an object reify and detach physical process, ‘object’ music at IRCAM, interdisciplinary
what are inherently fluid and or ‘actor’ –– and yet also art-science and new media art
relational sonic processes? In transubstantiates affectively at the University of California,
this lecture, by relating two and culturally into human Irvine. From 2010 to 2015 Born is
auto-ethnographic stories, experience. What will become directing the research programme
one ordinary, the other life- obvious in pursuing this ‘Music, Digitisation, Mediation:
changing, I point to the assemblage-ecological sense Towards Interdisciplinary Music
affective subjectification of of sound is how powerfully and Studies’, funded by the European
humans by nonhuman sound. pervasively nonhuman sound Research Council, which examines
This allows me to pursue acts on the human rather than the transformation of music and
sound’s multiple mediations, merely being modulated by the musical practices by digitisation and
its embeddedness in events, human. Asking what is gained digital media through comparative
socialities, sites and material conceptually by attending ethnographies in seven countries in
processes, including those of to such nonhuman sound, the developing and developed world.
the human body. In abandoning and the nature of its relation
the language of the sound to us, I suggest that sound
object, I contend, we become resists the anthropocentric and
attuned to the human-and- anthropomorphic tendencies
more-than-human, processual of certain stances on the
and temporal assemblages nonhuman. Following A. N.
through which sound is both Whitehead’s insistence that we
produced and experienced. must avoid the bifurcation of
This exercise, through sound, nature, I pursue an approach to
connects to recent thinking sound as relation.
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ALEJANDRA BRONFMAN CATHY LANE
KEYNOTE III . 24 NOV 2016 . 10H00 – 11H30 KEYNOTE IV . 25 NOV 2016 . 10H00 – 11H30
Laura Boulton, Alejandra Bronfman (PhD Princeton Disordering our Listening Cathy Lane is a composer, sound
Ethnomusicology, and University, 2000) is an Associate Abstract: The ‘Manifesto for artist and academic. Her work uses
the materiality of media Professor in the Department of Disordering Listening’ is part of spoken word, field recordings and
Abstract: When Laura Boulton History at UBC. Prior to this, she an ongoing investigation which archive material to explore aspects of
travelled to the Caribbean was Assistant Professor at the seeks to question both how we our listening relationship with each other
with her ornithologist husband University of Florida and Yale listen and how we could listen and the multiverse. She is currently
in the 1930s, she intended University. Her current research particularly across genders, focused on how sound relates to the
to record the sounds of the aims to record the unwritten cultures, ethnicities, species past, our histories, environment and our
islands she would visit. Her histories of radio and related sonic and ages. The manifesto has collective and individual memories from
subjects were birds, musical technologies in the Caribbean. been fed by practice-based and a feminist perspective. Books include
instruments, and people, and her Islands of Noise: Sonic Media in scholarly research drawing on the Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in
dedicated work habits produced the Caribbean (University of North social sciences, cultural studies, Artistic Practice (RGAP, 2008) and, with
thousands of recordings as well Carolina Press, Fall 2016) explores the feminist and post-colonial theory, Angus Carlyle, In the Field (Uniformbooks,
as a vast collection of musical perambulations of objects in empires oral history and sound arts 2013), a collection of interviews with
instruments. At the intersection in the early twentieth century, with theory and practice. In this talk eighteen contemporary sound artists
of sound studies and the particular attention to new media I would like to consider some who use field recording in their work
history of anthropology, this talk including telegraph, telephone and of the significant inputs to its and On Listening (2013) a collection
concerns Boulton’s pursuit of broadcasting and their relationships development as well as the of commissioned essays about some
the sonic exotic. In attending to capital flows, imperial projects manifesto itself which exists of the ways in which listening is used
specifically to the production and regional political mobilizations. as a fluid series of statements in disciplines including anthropology,
of sonic knowledge about She is the author of Measures of for discussion rather than as community activism, bioacoustics, conflict
places including the Dominican Equality: Race, Social Science declaration of a fixed position. mediation and religious studies, music,
Republic, Haiti, and Cuba, and Citizenship in the Caribbean ethnomusicology and field recording.
Boulton’s recordings allow for (University of North Carolina Press, Her CD The Hebrides Suite was released
an exploration of the ontological 2004), On the Move: The Caribbean by Gruenrekorder in 2013. Cathy is
relationships among natural Since 1989 (Zed Books, 2007), and Professor of Sound Arts and University
history (birds), material culture co-editor of Media, Sound and Culture of the Arts London and co-director of
(instruments) and ethnography in Latin America and the Caribbean CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts
(people) through sound. (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012). Practice), University of the Arts London.
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PANELS
of MC Orelha. Aided by the INA- Initial fieldwork has revealed SUZEL ANA REILY
GRM Acousmograph he narrates diverse musical groups Professor of Ethnomusicology at the
his trajectory through this piece, that perform and rehearse Universidade Estadual de Campinas,
which is then confronted with in different kinds of events having worked previously at Queen’s
PANEL I
information provided by the artist and places: refugee University Belfast.
in an interview conducted in his festivals, churches, public
23 NOV 2016 . 14H30 –16H00
studio at Largo da Batalha, in the squares, cultural centres, Sounding Locality
ETHNOGRAPHY, COMMUNITIES
city of Niterói, on 10 May 2012. museums and concert halls. in Northern Ireland
AND MUSIC MAKING
The migrant musicians For Arjun Appadurai locality
are from the Democratic is conceived as a “structure
ROSE SATIKO G. HIKIJI
CARLOS PALOMBINI
Republic of Congo, Togo, of feeling,” which must be
Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji is a professor
Carlos Palombini is currently a professor Mozambique, and Senegal. produced and reproduced
at the Department of Anthropology at the
of musicology at the Federal University of through the collective agency of
University of São Paulo (USP) since 2005.
Minas Gerais (UFMG) as well as a member We aim to investigate how music individuals who share common
Coordinator of LISA (Laboratory of Image
of the programme of graduate studies in making in São Paulo is related spaces (or neighbourhoods).
and Sound in Anthropology at USP).
music of the Federal University of the Rio de to their diasporic experience: The production of locality,
Janeiro State (UNIRIO). how do their musics dialogue he contends, is undertaken
JASPER CHALCRAFT
with local ones? Which places through a range of
Dr Jasper Chalcraft is currently a Research
Reduced listening are occupied (and transformed) “technologies of interactivity,”
Fellow in the Department of Sociology
and ethnography by these migrant musicians? such as ceremonies, rituals,
at Sussex University, working on the
In what manner can a mostly What aspects and personal and other collective activities.
CulturalBase project, investigating cultural
aural analysis of a sound experiences of their countries are Musicking and various sonic
heritage and European identity.
recording combine with performed in their art, brought to practices are central to many
ethnography for the sake of a new Brazilian audience? technologies of interactivity,
understanding the construction Translocal musicking - The paper draws on ongoing implicating them in the
of an EDM song? The speaker African performers research in the project production of locality. For
presents his initial impressions in São Paulo “Being/Becoming African in Doreen Massey, however,
on “Na Faixa de Gaza é assim” Local musicking is a way of Brazil: migrating musics and localities are best viewed
(in the Gaza Strip it’s this way), producing localities. What kinds heritages”, which is part of a as points of convergence of
a 2009 hit of the proibidão of localities are being produced larger framework project “Local people, ideas, objects and
subgenre of funk carioca by African musicians who have Musicking: New Pathways other material and immaterial
composed, performed and recently arrived in São Paulo, part for Ethnomusicology”, funded goods, and these encounters
produced by Gustavo Lopes, of a new and growing migration by FAPESP (Fapesp grants frequently involve power
best known by the stage name movement? 2016/04404-7 and 2016/06840-9). differentials. The production
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