Program
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FRIDAY, 30 November 2012
09:00 Welcome
Alexander C.T. Geppert (Berlin)
09:10 Introduction
William R. Macauley (Berlin)
Venturing into Sounds of Space during the Postwar Period
09:30 Feature Presentation
James Wierzbicki (Sydney)
The Imagined Sounds of Outer Space
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Panel I: Sounds of Space in Art and Opera
Chair: Claudia Schmӧlders (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”
12:30 Lunch
13:30 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
15:00 Coffee
15:30 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
17:00 Coffee
17:30 Performance
Eliad Wagner (Berlin)
Crossing Streams: Instant Composition Using the Sound Vocabulary of Science Fiction
SATURDAY, 1 December 2012
09:00 Panel IV: Sounds of Space in Popular Music
Chair: Klaus Nathaus (Bielefeld)
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
10:30 Coffee
11:00 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
Paweł Frelik (Lublin)
Dark Transmissions: Cosmic Visions in Contemporary Music
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Panel VI: Intelligent Sounds from Outer Space
Chair: Alexander C.T. Geppert (Berlin)
Klara Anna Capova (Durham)
Listening to the Sounds of Space
Stefan Helmreich (Cambridge, MA)
Listening Through Alien Ears to the Voyager Interstellar Record
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Closing session
Chair: William R. Macauley (Berlin)
