Conference: Picturing Sound: The Static Visual Paratexts of Music
Picturing Sound is a one-day interdisciplinary conference bringing together scholars and experts from across the globe to discuss the multitude of ways in which images influence our perception of music. The day’s events comprise a keynote address by Prof Asbjørn Grønstad of University of Bergen, Norway, followed by three panels on LPs, Comic Art and Intermediality. The inclusion of multimedia exhibitions and performances by our very own Postgraduate Music students means that ‘Picturing Sound’ will appeal not just to scholars interested in audiovisual aesthetics, but also lovers and aficionados of music culture more generally.
College of Arts School of Modern Languages
Date: Thursday 12 December 2019
Time: 09:00 - 18:00
Venue: Special Collections (Library Level 12)
Category: Conferences, Exhibitions, Academic events
Speaker: Prof Asbjørn Grønstad
09:30 – Keynote address: Asbjørn Grønstad (University of Bergen)
10:45 – Panel 1 – LPs (Chair: Chris Vezza)
Dr Lyndon Way (University of Liverpool) – Music and Image in Protest: The Roles of Music/Static Image Mash-ups in Turkey’s Gezi Park
Dr Cinla Seker (Dokuz Eylül University) – Harmonious Contrasts, Contrasting the Harmonious: A Form-Content Analysis of the Album Covers of the Band “The Fall”
Dr Stuart Medley (Edith Cowan University) – Small Rewards: Record Sleeves from a Contemporary Maker’s P.O.V.
13:30 – Organisers address: Guillaume Lecomte and Chris Vezza (University of Glasgow) – Look, Listen, Impact: Self-reflection on Researching Text-Images studies at the University of Glasgow
13:45 – Panel 2 – COMICS (Chair: Prof Laurence Grove)
Vincent ‘Frank Quitely’ Deighan – Vincent will discuss the design of LP covers he designed, and his creative process behind LP covers and/as comics
Dr David Sweeney (Glasgow School of Art) – Music as Social Fiction in the Comic Books Blue Monday and Phonogram
15:00 – Panel 3 – TRANSMEDIA (Chair: Guillaume Lecomte)
Prof Kate Maxwell (University of Tromsø) and Dr Jon Greenaway (Manchester Metropolitan University): Sex, Money, and the Negotiation of the Pornographic Image of the Female Body in Hip Hop
Dr Kyle Barnett (Bellarmine University): Listening to and Looking at Silent Film-Era Stardom: Talk-O-Photo Records and the Multi-Sensory Consumption of Celebrity'
Dr Caitriona Cassidy (University of Glasgow): Sound, Image and the Play: A Comparative Study of Productions of The Duchess [of Malfi] (2019) and Rhinoceros (2017 & 2018)
16:45 – Concluding Remarks (Dr Louise Harris, School of Culture & Creative Arts; and Prof Laurence Grove, Stirling Maxwell Centre, University of Glasgow), Exhibition (Glasgow University Special Collection), and Wine Reception.