Thursday 14 May 2009, 6:00-8:00pm
McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai
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How have birds influenced the sonic and social
evolution of song in the New Guinea rainforest? How have bells
shaped ideas of time and space across pastoral communities in
Europe? How have toads and car horns impacted ideas of rhythm
in West Africa? While diverse, these questions turn out to be
intimately connected. With audio and video examples, this talk
explores these myriad connections, sometimes very systematic,
sometimes less so, between sounds, cosmologies, and ecologies
in order to address the importance of acoustemology (acoustic
epistemology), sound as a way of knowing the world.
Steven Feld is a musician, writer, ethnomusicologist,
and documentary sound artist. He has taught at Columbia University,
New York University, University of California at Santa Cruz, University
of Texas at Austin, and University of Pennsylvania, and he also
holds a visiting appointment as a Professor of World Music at
the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen, Norway. He has been the
distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music at University
of New Mexico since 2003. His honors include a MacArthur Prize,
a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Koizumi Fumio Prize. He is a fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has issued more
than 80 articles since 1974 in edited books and professional refereed
journals, including Ethnomusicology, Yearbook for Traditional Music,
Cultural Anthropology, Annual Review of Anthropology, Public Culture,
Critical Inquiry, Oral Tradition, Studies in Visual Communication,
Visual Anthropology, Arena, Terra Nova, and Journal of Linguistic
Anthropology. Book and article translations have appeared in Greek,
Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Turkish, German,
and Russian. He has made more than 50 audio productions since
1978, including radio programs for NPR affiliates, Pacifica, CBC,
Australian ABC, Papua New Guinea NBC, BBC, NRK, WDR, and other
European networks, as well as more than 25 LPs, cassettes, and
CDs. His research interests include Bosavi Acoustemology, Papua
New Guinea; Schizophonia and the Globalization of "world" music;
Culture of European Bells (France, Italy, Greece, Norway, Denmark,
Finland); and Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra, Ghana.
Presented by
Department of
Music
School of Humanities
The University of
Hong Kong
The Hong Kong
Institute of Acoustics
Hong Kong Institution of
Engineers - Mechanical, Marine, Naval Architecture and Chemical Division
The Hong Kong Institute of Environmental
Impact Assessment
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