Sonic Immersions: a concert of new electroacoustic music, including experimental music for surround and immersive audio and works for instruments+electronics. Program features music by UGA student composers and performers, faculty, and guests.

Student Composers Association hosts a recital of world premieres by UGA student composers.

Guest cellist Stephen Marotto performs contemporary works for cello and electronics. Stephen is a Boston-based cellist and regularly with groups such as Sound Icon, Callithumpian Consort, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. This concert is sponsored by a Distinguished Visiting Artist grant from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at UGA and the Dancz Center for New Music. https://www.stephenmarotto.com

Music Research Symposium

February 2nd, 9am-5pm (break for lunch from 12:20-1:50) in Edge Concert Hall

Keynote speaker: Dr. Marketus Presswood, assistant professor at Spelman College

Keynote address: "Sonicated Blackness in Jazz Age Shanghai: African American Musicians and the Creation of the Soundtrack of Chinese Modernity, 1925-1954"

The keynote address will take place from 2-3pm  

Volunteer Signup: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ttBrAwFTE4UZxiP0MaNgY3B--eXm1h3QhmxBdZQQ01I/edit

Schedule

Welcome and Coffee

9:00 - 9:10 am

Panel 1: Essence and Perception 

9:10 - 10:40 am

Moderated by Dr. Stephen Valdez

“La vie souterraine: Evocations of the Supernatural in Charles Koechlin’s Cinq Chansons de Bilitis”

Arielle P. Crumley

“For the Benefit of Mr. Kite and Father McKenzie”

William Shine

“The Dance of Many Elvises: Reflections and Refractions of an Icon in Deborah Brevoort’s Blue Moon Over Memphis”

Sloan Elle Garner

Panel 2: Communicating Culture

10:50-12:20 pm

Moderated by Dr. Dickie Lee

“Articulations and Percussive Effects in Double Bass in Tango Music”

Iris Marcipar

“Let Us March On: A Journey of Racial Uplift and Social Justice”

Sydney Moore

“Connecting Caroling and Nepalese Bhailo-Deusi”

Hazael Gomes

Lunch

12:20-1:50 pm

Keynote: 

2:00pm- 3:00pm

“Sonicated Blackness in Jazz Age Shanghai: African American Musicians and the Creation of the Soundtrack of Chinese Modernity, 1925-1954”

Dr. Marketus Presswood

Assistant Professor, Spelman College

Break

3:00-3:10 pm

Panel 3: Public Musicology

3:10-4:40

Moderated by Prof. Jennifer Stull

“Exploring the Effects of Early Implementation of Heartbeat Recording Interventions on

Bereavement Outcomes”

Karen Lee

“Rhythm and Flow with the Atlanta Suzuki Institute: Finding Common Ground

Between Arts and Music”

Saya Yim and Paula Reynaldi

“A Jingle for a Jury: A Review of Melodic Exhibits in Recent Music Plagiarism Claims”

Bethany Lambert