[csaa-forum] [TfCcore] Call for papers/symposium - Terpsichorean Architecture: Writing about music

[Tony Mitchell]

Dear all,

Please find a Call for paper attached here for a one-day symposium on  
2nd October, organised by Tony Mitchell.

Terpsichorean Architecture: Writing About Music
2nd October

‘Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – it’s a  
really stupid thing to want to do’, is a statement usually attributed  
to Elvis Costello in Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52,  
which has long been quoted as evidence of the impossibility of writing  
adequately about the processes of producing and listening to music.  
Leaving aside the fact that Costello has denied he ever said it, and  
it has been mistakenly attributed to a number of other musicians over  
the years including Laurie Anderson, David Byrne and Frank Zappa (who  
actually said ‘rock journalism is people who can't write, preparing  
stories based on interviews with people who can't talk, in order to  
amuse people who can't read’), this symposium and journal issue set  
out to prove the contrary.

Papers will draw on evidence of the volume of important writing that  
exists about all forms of music, in academic, journalistic and  
creative fields, and discuss different ways in which music has been  
‘translated’ into language. The English jazz writer Paul Savage, for  
example, describing the music of John Coltrane, refers to ‘a musical  
monument like that feat of terpsichorean architecture Giant Steps’.  
And in a 2004 issue of the Architectural Review (vol.216 August)  
entitled ‘Terpsichore and the Architects’, Simon Goldhill notes that  
in ancient Greek theatre, ‘the chorus danced the architecture of the  
theatrical space into being’ and ‘the dancer was a storyteller whose  
body told a story, like a sculpture coming alive or a mobile  
embodiment of tradition’. Choreographer Siobhan Davies speaks of the  
dancer building ‘an inner architecture with volume, texture and  
rhythm, which allows you to slice up space … Classical ballet and  
classical architecture share proportion, grandeur, and the idea of  
being at the centre of the universe … Light and acoustics are very  
important in dance and architecture: we have to consider how we  
introduce light to form and how we hear ourselves live in that form’.

This symposium calls for papers which discuss a wide range of  
different modes and forms of music and music writing in all fields,  
from a perspective of dance and architecture (including ‘natural’  
architectural forms). Themed papers need not address writing about  
music directly, but may illustrate modes of writing about music in  
different ways. Authors presenting papers in the symposium will be  
invited to submit articles for a special issue of the refereed  
ejournal Transforming Cultures.

Send paper proposals (200 words)  in word attachment to

Tony.Mitchell at uts.edu.au


--
Lindi Renier Todd
Research, Outreach & Publications Officer [Wednesday and Friday]
Transforming Cultures
University of Technology, Sydney
Lindi.Todd at uts.edu.au
+ 61 2 9514 2757
www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au





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