Taking a look at the history of Music Research—especially of Ethnomusicology—shows that a large part of research as well as music practice in everyday university life is determined by anthropocentric assumptions. In comparison to other (sub)disciplines of the humanities and cultural studies, impulses from Human-Animal Studies and Multispecies Studies have only recently been taken into account in the field of Music Research: Ecomusicology, Multispecies Ethnomusicology, and Interspecies Music are increasingly focusing on non-human animals or rather other-than-human beings and their sounds in order to give them voices in research and practice.
At the Annual Conference of the National Committee for Germany within ICTMD, we will explore the integration of non-human voices and sound ecologies in our academic, artistic, and performative research, and reflect on our understanding of music in multispecies contexts.
Please find the program here: Why More-Than-Human Musicking Now? - Google Drive. The conference language is German and English.
Location: Room E.09 (and via Zoom)
Conference Management
Dr. Lisa Herrmann-Fertig (Nuremberg University of Music)
Dr. Susanne Heiter (Nuremberg University of Music)
Dr. Dorit Klebe (Chair of the ICTMD National Committee for Germany)
Keynote (Friday, October 25, 2024, 2 p.m.)
Prof. Dr. Martin Ullrich (Professor and Chair of Interdisciplinary Music Research and Human-Animal Studies, Nuremberg University of Music): Animal Voices: Listening in the Anthropocene
Any questions or comments can be addressed to Dr. Lisa Herrmann-Fertig (lisa.herrmann-fertig(at)hfm-nuernberg.de).
Share