Thursday, October 9

(TBA = update pending)

OPENING REMARKS | 12:30–1 p.m.

Timashev Recital Hall 120

SESSION 1 | 1 p.m.–2:30

Timashev Classroom  or Recital Hall 120 (TBA)

“Black Music Theories” 

• Don Cherry’s “Sounds that Swing”: A Sonic Philosophy
  Paul Nicholas Roth, University of California, San Diego
• Sun Ra’s Tone Science
  Anna Gawboy, The Ohio State University
• Transcription and Gesture in Wadada Leo Smith’s Analysis of Anthony Braxton’s Composition 113
  Marc Hannaford, University of Michigan

FEATURED SPEAKER | 2:45–4:15

Timashev Ensemble Rehearsal Room 160

"Hip-Hop Workshop"

Jason Rawls, The Ohio State University

SESSION 2 | 4:30–6 p.m. (2 choices)

"Instrument-Specific Theories"

Timashev Classroom (TBA)

• Reimagining the Violinist: Analyzing the Expressive Possibilities of the Bow Hand for Storytelling Performances
  Risa Yoshida, University of California, Irvine  
• Pedal Schemas: A Harp-Centric Mode of Analysis
  McKenna Sheeley-Jennings, University of Western Ontario  
• “Keys to the Lamborghini”: Picking Transformations and Embodiment in Rock Guitar Instructional Videos of the early 1990s 
  Juan Rivera, University of Chicago

"Groove and Entrainment"

Timashev Classroom (TBA)

• Groove on the Field: The Practice and Theory of Microtiming “Feels” in Marching Percussion
  Zachary Lookenbill, University of Arkansas
• Grooving until you can’t: formal process and embodiment in early British Grindcore
  Florian Walch, University of Chicago
• Aperiodic Entrainment, Precise Aural Mimesis, and Mathcore
  Calder Hannan, Indiana University

Friday, October 10

(TBA = update pending)

SESSION 3 | 8:45–10:15 a.m. (2 choices)

“Theorizing Everyday Listening”

Timashev Classroom (TBA)

• Examining Corporate and Co-Operative Models of AI in Musical Spaces
  Gerardo Lopez, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• Music Theorists as Practitioners: Expert Listener’s or Expert Theorists?
  Samuel Gardner, Oberlin College Conservatory
• Music in Everyday Life of Autistic Adults: Themes in Theory and Music Therapy
  Jon Fessenden and Moira Cairns, Mississippi University for Women

"Improvisatory Methods Workshop"

Timashev Ensemble Rehearsal Room 160

• The Embodied Learning of Counterpoint through Improvisation
  Anthony Petruccello, University of Oregon
• Some Real-Time Pressures of Music Making
  Nick Shea, Arizona State University

SESSION 4 | 10:30–11:30 (2 choices)

“Musical Identity”

Timashev Classroom (TBA)

• Singing Femininity in a Mennonite Voice
  Katie Graber, The Ohio State University
• Composing Queer Identity: Co-Creation and the Queering of Contemporary Musical Practice
  CJ Smyth-Small, The Ohio State University

“20th Century Analytic Methods”

Timashev Classroom (TBA)

• Practitioner-Centered Approaches to Researching and Analyzing Indeterminate Music
  Jessica Stearns, East Texas A&M University
• Notation as Negotiation: Harry Partch’s 17 Lyrics by Li Po and the Performer’s Role in Theoretical Revision
  Jiaqi Sun, University of North Texas

LUNCH BREAK | 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m.

SESSION 5 | 1–2:30 p.m. (2 choices)

“Ensemble and Performance Analysis”

Timashev Classroom or Recital Hall 120 (TBA)

• '¡Conversa, Conversa!’: A Parametric Analysis of Participant Interaction in Salsa Dura
  Irén Hangen Vázquez, McGill University
• The Embodied Chorus: Rehearsing and Performing Ligeti's Early Works With An Amateur Ensemble
  Marina Rossi, Università di Trento
• Mucking It Up Together: Distributed Cognition and the Analysis of Musical Mistakes
  Nathaniel Mitchell, independent scholar

“Movement in Music”

Timashev Classroom (TBA)

• How EDM Producers Conceptualize Shape and Movement in their Music 
  Jeremy W. Smith, The Ohio State University
• My Sabers, My Rules: An Exploration of Agency and Gesture in Custom Beat Saber Content 
  Joshua Cohen, University of Kentucky
• The Time It Takes to Jump: Battu Sequences as a Determinant of Meter and Tempo
  Andrew Malilay White, University of Texas at Austin

FEATURED SPEAKER | 2:45–4:25

Timashev Recital Hall 120

(Title TBA)

Jonathan De Souza, University of Western Ontario

CATERED DINNER | 5–8 p.m.

Ohio Union (location TBA)

Saturday, October 11

(TBA = update pending)

CATERED BREAKFAST | 8–9 a.m.

Timashev (location TBA)

SESSION 6 | 9–10:30 a.m.

Timashev Ensemble Rehearsal Room 160

“Dance Workshops”

• Embodied Theory, Performed Lineage: Finding Music Theory in Rhythm Tap Dance Choreography and Pedagogy 
  Rachel Gain, Yale University
  Stefanie Bilidas, The University of Texas at Austin
• Rhythm and form in zapateado in “Las amarillas”: A Choreomusical Workshop as Practice in Research
  Andrea Tinajero-Perez and Alfonso Cervera, The Ohio State University

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION | 10:45–11:45

Timashev Recital Hall 120

“What is Practitioner-Centered Music Theory?”

(Panelists TBA)

LUNCH BREAK | 11:45–1:30

FEATURED SPEAKER | 1:30–3 p.m.

Timashev Recital Hall 120

(Title TBA)

Leslie Tilley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology