CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

CONFERENCE-FESTIVAL
«FIELD SOUND RECORDINGS:
MUSIC, SPEECH, LANDSCAPE»






[GMT+3]
October 5th
online
+ offline for conference participants
IEA RAS (Moscow), IRL RAS (Saint-Petersburg)
10:00OPENING
10:30The Birth of Music: Folklore intonation between singing and «speaking». Ekaterina Dorokhova (Moscow/Saint-Petersburg)
11:00«Buran’ mun’ so — The sound of buran is heard»: the changing soundscape of the Yamal tundra. Aleksandra Teryokhina, Aleksander Volkovitsky (Labytnangi)
11:30Anthropological Field as a Sound Project: Deceptive Materiality/Sound Criticism. Vita Zelenskaia (Regensburg, Germany)
12:00Sound Recordings in the Fieldwork of an Ethnomusicologist — Contexts and Problems. Veselka Toncheva (Bulgaria)
12:30Spectral Stratigraphy: Listening to monument sites in contested territories. David A. Calf (Melbourne, Australia)
13:00For a Critique of the Psychic Economy of the Sound. Bourdieu’s «Social Libido»: there and back again. Dmitry Bochkov (Moscow/Vienna), Innokenty Martynov (Moscow)
14:00-15:00LUNCH-BREAK
15:00The Gameplay Side of Sound in Computer Games: Ways to Define Space. Vladislav Kirichenko (Saint-Petersburg)
15:30The Sounding Landscape of the Arctic: A Dialogue between Human and Nature (case of Taimyr). Oksana Dobzhanskaya (Dudinka, Krasnoyarsk region)
16:00Hydrofeminism and Sound Studies of Rivers in St. Petersburg. Results of Summer Laboratories. Marina Karpova (Saint-Petersburg)
16:30Investigating Sounds: Audio Recording of Interviews as Investigative Material and as Evidence. Lidiya Rakhmanova (Saint-Petersburg)
17:00Kin Listening and Voicing in Altay-Sayan Mountain Homelands, Inner Asia. Robert O. Beahrs (Istanbul, Turkey), Victoria Soyan Peemot (Helsinki, Finland)
18:00-19:00DINNER-BREAK
19:00LECTURE-INTERVIEW
Theodore Levin + Steven Feld



October 6th
online
+ offline for conference participants
IEA RAS (Moscow), IRL RAS (Saint-Petersburg)
10:00-11:30LECTURE
Neural Networks in the Analysis and Production of Sound 
Tatjana Zobnina (Yekaterinburg)
11:30-12:00COFFEE-BREAK
12:00Mapping the Unobservable: The Sound Route as a Research Tool, Creative Method and Musical Form. Boris Shershenkov (Saint-Petersburg)
12:30Layers of sound: the perception of the city in user videos. Darya Radchenko (Moscow)
13:00Creating Acoustic Multidimensional Spaces in Modern Multimedia. Ekaterina Davidenkova-Khmara   (Saint-Petersburg)
13:30Soundscape for the video project «Jewish Heritage of Gomel Region». Viktorija Kiriltseva, Natalya Ogorelysheva (Belarus, Minsk)
14:00-15:00LUNCH-BREAK
15:00Instrumental music of the Kalmyks as recorded by F.N. Gauchberg in 1939.
 Svetlana Podrezova (Saint-Petersburg), Guilyana Dordjieva (Boston, USA)
15:30Sound-Producing: the Shape and Localization of the Working Orifices on Mayan Wind Musical Instruments of the 1st millennium A.D. Irina Demicheva (Nizhny Novgorod)
16:00From the History of Recordings of Sart-Kalmyk Folklore. Boskha Borlykova (Elista)
16:30Anatomy of Polyphony: Experiments in Sound Recording, Leningrad, 1935. Brian Fairley (USA, New York)
17:00Ethnocultural Islands of the Russian Abroad. Early sound recordings of the musical folklore of the Danube Lipovans. A look at the prospects of study. Irina Savelieva (Moscow)
17:30Problems of working with archival sound recordings: The Collection of A.V. Anokhin. Galina Sychenko (Rome, Italy)
18:00-19:00DINNER-BREAK
19:00ROUND TABLE
Preservation and Publication of Field Recordings: Archives, Labels, and Web-Resources

speakers
Svetlana Podrezova, Ekaterina Dorokhova, Kirill Chebotarev, Svyatoslav Kaverin, Dmitry Arzyutov, Bulat Khalilov
October 7th
online
+ offline for conference participants
IEA RAS (Moscow), IRL RAS (Saint-Petersburg)
10:00-11:30LECTURE
The Anthropology of Space in Search of Sound. 
Denis Sivkov (Moscow)
11:30-12:30COFFEE-BREAK
12:30Peculiarities of the auditory data collection of the city within the multisensory approach. Ekaterina Sokolova, Alisa Storchak (Moscow)
13:00Using field recordings in speech processing tasks. Elena Klyachko, Oleg Serikov (Moscow)
13:30Repeated field sound recording as a pathway to knowledge and polytextual representation of a piece of traditional music. Igor Matsievski (Saint-Petersburg)
14:00Fixation, Analysis and Transformation of a Sounding Word in Russian Mosques 
(role of Arabic phonetics in the fixation of sound material).
Alfiya Shayakhmetova (Krasnoyarsk)
14:30-16:00LUNCH-BREAK
16:00Social Frames of the Sound Field: methodological aspect. Elena Samoilova (Saint-Petersburg)
16:30Information possibilities of multichannel audio and video recording in the study of traditional polyphony problems. Galina Tavlay (Saint-Petersburg)
17:00Sound walk: research practice in and outside cities. Lilia Akivenson (Saint-Petersburg)
17:30Exploring the Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) as an example of modern technological occultism and field recordings. Vladimir Cherepanov (Moscow)
18:00-19:00DINNER-BREAK
19:00LECTURE
New Takes on the Old Machines: Mechanical recording processes and historically informed performance practice. Inja Stanović (UK, Sheffield)

October 8th
online
+ offline for conference participants
IEA RAS (Moscow), IRL RAS (Saint-Petersburg)
10:00-12:00
ROUND TABLE 
Field Linguistics, Phonetics, and Phonosemantics 

— Introductory Sounding of Language. Marina Liublinskaya, Taisija Golovatskaya, Sofya Unru (Saint-Petersburg)
 — Frequentals and Typological Anomalies of Phonetic-Phonological Systems of Paleo-Asiatic languages (on the example of Ket, Itelmen and Nivkh languages) Stepan Kalinin (Moscow) 
Field Linguistics Before and After the Invention of Sound Recording. Olga Kazakevich (Moscow)
On the Objectivity of Description of Folklore Material. Pavel Skrelin(Saint-Petersburg)
Vocaliz and Vocables: the Phonosemantics. Elena Shamina (Saint-Petersburg)
12:00-12:30COFFEE-BREAK
12:30Peculiarities  of lyric songs of Russian-Belarusian-Ukrainian borderland. Yury Marchenko (Saint-Petersburg)
13:00Between Mythology and Sound Studies «on the Other Side of Human»: Sound Behavior of «Restless Loci» in the Culture of the Volga Finns.Dmitry Doronin (Moscow), Andrey Kharlov (Nizhny Novgorod)
13:30Sectarian chants as perceived by Orthodox people. Aleksander Rozov (Saint-Petersburg)
14:00-15:00LUNCH-BREAK
15:00Folk Performers on Sound and Sounding: Reflection and Practice
Elena Yakubovskaya (Saint-Petersburg)
16:00Musical instruments as listening objects/bodies. Anna Shatilova (USA)
16:30Sound and Sound Images in the Visual Texts of the Carriers of Tradition. Irina Popova (Saint-Petersburg)
17:00From the Experience of Recording Vocal Texts from Children: Communicative Aspect. Tatyana Kaluzhnikova (Yekaterinburg)
17:30How Sound Changes the Folk Performer (special case). Vera Nikitina (Moscow)
18:00-19:00DINNER-BREAK
19:00MOVIE + discussion

Hunters since the beginning of time.
Carlos Casas (Barcelona, Spain)

October 9th
online + offline for everybody in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg
12:00
MASTER-CLASS
(online, in Russian)

Sound Visualization by Neural Networks. Tatjana Zobnina (Yekaterinburg)
14:00-19:00BREAK
19:00
LECTURE
(online)

Expanded Fieldwork practices: sound at the crossover of ethnography and the visual arts.
Carlos Casas (Barcelona, Spain)
October 10th
online + offline for everybody in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg
19:00
LECTURE 
(on/offline)

Field recordings as cinematic matter: the alchemy of the fusion of sound and the «filmic» in experimental film. Fjodor Gladilin (Saint-Petersburg)
October 11th
online + offline for everybody in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg
12:00-15:00
MASTER-CLASS
(online)

Application of Modern Studio Technologies for Recording and Archiving Field Recordings (from the Experience of the Glinka Department of Music Theory of the Nizhny Novgorod State University). 
Andrej Kharlov (Nizhny Novgorod)
15:00-16:00BREAK
16:00-18:30SOUND WALKS
(offline, Saint-Petersburg + Moscow)

moderation:
Marina Karpova, Lilia Tkachuk, Vasilisa Filatova
18:30-19:00BREAK
19:00-20:00DISCUSSION ON SOUND WALKS
(on/offline)
20:00-21:00MOVIE + discussion
Listening. 
Mike Hoolboom, Heather Frise (Toronto, Canada)
(on/offline)
October 12th
online + offline for everybody in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg
12:00-15:00
MASTER-CLASS
(offline, Moscow)

Non-human hearing and the problems of its modeling.
Vitaly Staroverov (Moscow)
15:00-16:00BREAK
16:00-18:00
LISTENING SESSION + discussion:
(offline, Moscow + Saint-Petersburg)

Between Mythology and Sound Studies «on the Other Side of Human»: Sound Behavior of «Restless Loci» in the Culture of the Volga Finns. Dmitry Doronin (Moscow), Andrey Kharlov (Nizhny Novgorod)
18:00-19:00BREAK
19:00-21:00
LISTENING SESSIONS + discussion:

— The vitality of public space – play and the production of place in Shanghai and São Paulo. Елена Килина (Sao Paolo) (on/offline)

— Sentient Alaska. Kevin Huo, Kenneth Huo (Fairbanks, Alaska, US) (on/offline)

A Song of Glass and Tear Gas: a Soundscape of Football Disorder in Marseille during Euro 2016. Julia Amatuni (Saint-Petersburg)
(offline, Moscow + Saint-Petersburg)
October 13th
online + offline for everybody in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg
12:00-15:00
ROUND TABLE
(online, in Russian)

Modern Technologies of Restoration of Field Recordings

speakers:
Svyatoslav Kaverin, Roman Ignatiev, Ekaterina Davidenkova-Khmara,
Kirill Chebotarev, Nikita Khokhlov
15:00-19:00
time for visiting sound-installations
(offline, Moscow + Saint-Petersburg)
19:00-21:00SOUND INSTALLATIONS PRESENTATION + discussion:
(on/offline)

— Sound Maps. Anna Martynenko (Saint-Petersburg)

It’s quiet everywhere during the daytime
Dmitry Morash, Denis Sapuntsov, Tatiana Tian, Nikita Mikheev, Vasilisa Filatova, Maria Mochalova, Natalia Liubimova, Alevtina Borodulina, Anastasija Yudina (Moscow)

October 14th
online + offline for everybody in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg
12:00-15:00
ROUND TABLE
(on/offline, in Russian)

Inter-institutional Collaboration. 
Field Recordings in Science, Music, Museum, Cinema 

speakers:
Artyom Keremenko, Ksenia Kalashnova, Lilia Tkachuk,
Vasilisa Filatova, Sergey Yegerev
15:00-16:00BREAK
16:00-18:00
LISTENING SESSIONS + discussion:
(on/offline)

— Kosichkins’ Family Audio Archive.  Egor Klochikhin (Moscow)

— Random City.  Alëna Korolëva (Toronto, Canada)
18:00-19:00BREAK + time to visit sound installations
19:00-21:00
SOUND INSTALLATIONS PRESENTATION + discussion:
(on/offline)

KYHYC TYYH БУОЛБУТ. Andrej Guryanov (Moscow)

— Moscow collector and river network. Evgeny Kruglov (Moscow)

The Field: sound or silence? Innokentiy Ludevig-Cherneckiy (Saint-Petersburg)
October 15th
online + offline for everybody in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg
12:00-
16:00

time for visiting Francisco Lopes’ sound-installation “Hyper-Rainforest” 
(offline, Moscow + Saint-Petersburg)
16:00-
17:30

DISCUSSION
ON SOUND AND TEXT

(on/offline)

Sound installation “Hyper-Rainforest” + essay “Sonic creatures” 
by Francisco Lopez (The Hague, Netherlands)

speakers:
Yulia Glukhova, Lilia Tkachuk, Vasilisa Filatova
17:30-
19:00

DISCUSSION ON THE CONFERENCE RESULTS
(on/offline)
19:00
CLOSING REMARKS
(on/offline)

+ CONCERT 
(offline)