VIRTUAL Music Futures: Science and Sound reading group

You are very warmly invited to join Science and Sound, a new monthly reading group part of Music Futures.

Facilitated by Chiara Ambrosio, Maria Kiladi, Elena Ktori and Cathy Lucas (UCL Science and Technology Studies), Science and Sound will explore recent research at the interface of STS, music and sound and use its sessions to bring together academics, museum curators and performers. The reading group will start with some key texts from the STS literature on music and sound, and explore how performers and colleagues across disciplines receive and respond to that literature. The organisers also hope that in later meetings collaborators and practitioners will propose texts from other interdisciplinary areas, in an effort to expand the conceptual base from which STS scholars should approach the fields of music and sound.

For our first meeting we will read John Tresch and Emily Dolan, "Toward a new Organology: Instruments of Music and Science", OSIRIS vol. 28 no. 1 (2013), pp. 278-298. The article is available via JStor. John Tresch has very kindly agreed to join us for the session, so we will have the pleasure of hearing how this article came to be from one of its authors!

Given the ongoing uncertainty relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, this first meeting of the reading group will run online via Zoom. Please register to receive the joining link: https://ias-science-sound.eventbrite.co.uk

We are looking forward to the start of this new conversation, and hope to see many of you very soon!

Image credit: S. Morland (1672) Tuba Stentooro-Phonica: An Instrument of Excellent Use, as Well ar Sea, as at Land; Invented and Variously Experimented in the Year 1670 and Humbly Presented to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty Charles II in the Year 1671, London: W. Godbid