Prof. Dr. Nina Sun Eidsheim
Nina Eidsheim (she/her) is the author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music; co-editing Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies; Co-editor of the Refiguring American Music book series for Duke University Press. She received her bachelor of music from the voice program at the Agder Conservatory (Norway); MFA in vocal performance from the California Institute of the Arts; and Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, San Diego. Eidsheim is Professor of Musicology at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and founder and director of the UCLA Practice-based Experimental Epistemology (PEER) Lab, an experimental research Lab dedicated to decolonializing data, methodology, and analysis, in and through multisensory creative practices. Current projects include a book collaboration with Wadada Leo Smith and a multi-model project that will map networks of metaphors that structure musical community, discourse, and practice.
Profile on Columbia University website
Public lecture "Eat this Song"
in collaboration with Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft (SMG)
Full title: Eat this Song: Multisensory Analysis of Music
If music and sound are “thick events” that necessarily exceed our ability to grasp them fully, what resources do we have to make (at least) partial sense of them? Metaphorical language works as one of these resources, not only shaping the ways in which we perceive and understand music, but also one another and the world. Western musical thought has been shaped by several dominant metaphors, the majority divorced from music’s multisensory dimension. These metaphors not only influence the vocabulary we use to describe and analyze music, they also impact our musical imaginaries, performance practices, and sensory access to music. In this talk, I play with a metaphor that has not been much used related to the sense we traditionally associate with music. I discuss terroir as the metaphorical under-pinning that helped me to conceptualize singing and listening as intermaterial vibrational practices (2015), and to articulate how the cultural-political concept of the race of sound has material (and sonorous) consequences (2019). More broadly, I encourage those of us invested in decolonializing data, methodology and analysis to experiment across the senses and with new metaphors. (While this talk draws specifically on examples from music, the model is widely adaptable.)
17 October 2024, 06.15–08:00pm
Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36, room F013
Zoom option:
https://unibe-ch.zoom.us/j/62367557208?pwd=L0ZFMVBhL1JmM1NIQThEeGNOOUF0UT09
Meeting-ID: 623 6755 7208
Kenncode: 538322
Moderation
Prof. Dr. Lena van der Hoven (Institute of Musicology, Universität Bern)
Colloquium
18 October 2024, 10.15am–05:00pm
Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36, room F-111
For PhD students, advanced Master students of the University of Bern, as well as interested parties
Part 1 of the colloquium is dedicated to the discussion of the lecture and the texts suggested by the guest. In Part 2, a core group present their PhDor postdoctoral projects, speaking for about 20 minutes (English) on how the concept of "Sensoriality" and related concepts/approaches such as multisensoriality, multimodality, experimental epistemology connect to their research questions and which aspects of the texts are of particular relevance to their own work. The presenters raise questions for the discussion with their peers, which should contribute to the development of their thesis. Finally, in Part 3, the conversation will open up again so that the other PhD or advanced MA-students have an opportunity to address issues related to their projects.
ECTS
1.5 (Pflicht- oder Wahlpflichtbereich ICS und GS / Wahlpflichtbereich SLS, SINTA, open to (Post)Docs and master students and interested parties at the University of Bern and beyond)
Language
English
Anmeldung
via KSL und E-Mail an michael.toggweiler@unibe.ch
