– PROGRAM –
FRIDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 2012
09:00-09:10 Welcome
Alexander C.T. Geppert (Berlin)
09:10-09:30 Introduction
William R. Macauley (Berlin): Venturing into Sounds of Space during the Postwar Period
09:30-10:30 Keynote Presentation
James Wierzbicki (Sydney): The Imagined Sounds of Outer Space
11:00-12:30 Panel I: Sounds of Space in Art and Opera
Chair: Claudia Schmölders (Berlin)
Tatjana Böhme-Mehner (Leipzig): Outer Space and Space Travel in Pierre Schaeffer’s 'La Coquille à planètes'
Johan Stenström (Lund): The Significance of Electronic Music in the Space Opera 'Aniara'
13:30-15:00 Panel II: The Human Voice and Sounds of Space
Chair: Matthias Schwartz (Berlin)
Konstantin Kaminskij (Konstanz): The Voices of the Cosmos. Electronic Synthesis of Special Sound Effects in Soviet vs. American Science Fiction Movies from Sputnik 1 to Apollo 8
Tim Boon (London): Music for Spaces. Music for Space
15:30-17:00 Panel III: Synthesizing Sounds of Space
Chair: Peter Moormann (Berlin)
Trevor Pinch (Ithaca, NY): Inner Space and Outer Space. How the Early Electronic Music Synthesizer Took Us There
Axel Volmar (Siegen): Cosmic Symphonies. Electronic Music Culture, Analog Synthesizers, and the Birth of Superstring Theory in the 1970s
17:30-18:00 Performance
Eliad Wagner (Berlin): Crossing Streams. Instant Composition Using the Sound Vocabulary of Science Fiction
SATURDAY, 1 DECEMBER 2012
09:00-10:30 Panel IV: Sounds of Space in Popular Music
Chair: Bodo Mrozek (Berlin)
Michael Mooradian Lupro (Portland, OR): 'Just my Job, Five Days a Week.' Soundscapes of Space Labor in Apollo Era Pop Music
Cathleen Lewis (Washington, DC): Okudzhava and Scott-Heron. The Social Critique Soundtrack of the Space Race
11:00-12:30 Panel V: Sonification of Outer Space
Chair: Daniel Brandau (Berlin)
Alexandra Supper (Maastricht): Eerie Whistling and Tribal Cosmic Heartbeats. The Silencing of Craft Skills in the Sonification of Astrophysics
Pawel Frelik (Lublin): Dark Transmissions. Cosmic Visions in Contemporary Music
13:30-15:00 Panel VI: Intelligent Sounds from Outer Space
Chair: Alexander C.T. Geppert (Berlin)
Anna Klara Capova (Durham): Listening to the Sounds of Silence
Stefan Helmreich (Cambridge, MA): Listening Through Alien Ears to the Voyager Interstellar Record
15:30-16:30 Closing Session
Chair: William R. Macauley (Berlin)