On the Right Track: The Role of the Recording Studio in Popular Music and Media

May 15 -17, 2004
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

SATURDAY MAY 15

9:00-9:40 Registration

9:45 Welcome & Opening Remarks

10:00 – 12:00

a) Histories I / Histoires I (Canada)

Sandria P. Bouliane (Université Laval)
“Marius Barbeau et l’enregistrement phonographique”

Gillian Turnbull (York University)
“Twang, Tonk, or Grunge? Aesthetics of independent country recording in Calgary, AB”

Tara Mimnagh (University of Western Ontario)
“Building a History: The construction of a musical history in Canada”

Andrew Scott (York University/University of Western Ontario)
“Oscar Peterson’s Advanced School of Contemporary Music (ASCM): History, historiography, and reception”

b) The Institutional and Regulatory Matrix

Sean McManus (York University)
“Between Tradition and Commercialization: The Canadian folk festival as a site for innovation and discovery”

David Young (McMaster University)
“Social Inequality, Promotional Culture, and the Juno Awards”

Charity Marsh (York University)
“‘Understand Us Before You End Us’: Regulation, governmentality, and the confessional practices of raving bodies”

12:00 – 1:15 LUNCH

1:15 – 2:45

a) Hip Hop and Rap

Paul Jasen (Carleton University)
“Keeping It Real: Tensions of authenticity in the production of rap music”

Cynthia Fuchs (George Mason University)
“‘Flip it and reverse it’: Missy Elliot, process, and product”

Gavin Kistner (Univeristé Laval)
“Life after Death of the Author: Marx, hip-hop authorship, and the H.N.I.C.”

b) Sonic Sedition and Talk-Back: Auditing approaches to studio control

Owen Chapman (Concordia University)
“Sonic Sedition through Aural Audition: Who’s got the conch in sample-based music?”

Andra McCartney and Lisa Gasior (Concordia University)
“Talk-Back through Glass Windows and Ceilings” (Double-length presentation)

3:00 – 4:30

a) Artists and Artistic Practice

Robert Vodicka (University of Kansas)
“Into the Groove (and the studio) with Sonic Youth”

Mark Gillespie (Université Laval)
“Miss-Match: Aesthetic problems of cross-cultural authorship in the ‘hybrid’ production of Britney Spears’ ‘Overprotected,’ the Darkchild remix”

Daniel Sonenberg (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
“No Lady in Gingham: Joni Mitchell’s guitar-driven break with folk”

b) Lost in Space: Surround Sound

Jay Hodgson (University of Alberta)
“Mapping the ‘Ambient’ Soundscape: Sound and space, the mix and Pink Floyd’s ‘Speak To Me’”

John Klepko (Belmont University)
“The Quad Phenomenon”

Jason Corey (University of Michigan)
“New Surroundings: Recording music in 5.1 Multichannel Audio”

7:00 Meeting of The Canadian Recording Studio Project
Paul Théberge (convenor)

SUNDAY MAY 16

9:00-9:30 Registration

9:30 – 11:00

a) Engaging Technologies / Corps à corps avec la technologie

Carlo A. Nardi (University of Trento)
“Music Software and Visuality in Popular Music”

Pascal Bujold (l’Université du Québec à Montréal)
“Métronome, piste-guide ou mouvements comme référence rythmique lors d’un enregistrement”

Alan Williams (Brown University)
“Science Fiction Double Feature: The impact of the computer monitor on the recording process in the age of the digital audio workstation”

b) Persona, Self-performance, and Authenticity

Holly Tessler (University of Liverpool)
“Rage Into Beauty: Three recording studios and the early Beatles’ search for self”

Frans Mossberg (Lund University)
“Development of the Artistic Persona through a Mixture of Studio Technique and Performance”

Leanne Fetterley (University of Toronto)
“‘Spiritual Music for Modern Living’: Seeking authenticity in a new age”

11:15 – 12:15

a) Subjectivities

Geraldine Finn (Carleton University)
“What Kind Of Saying Is A Song?”

Steven J. Cole (University of Alberta)
“The Prosumer: Technology, sound, and new subjectivity”

b) Negotiating Authority in Studio Practices

Karl Neuenfeldt (Central Queensland University)
“The Technology, Aesthetic and Cultural Politics of a Collaborative, Transnational Music Recording Project : ‘Veiga, Veiga’ and the itinerant overdubs of Karl Neuenfeldt & Denis Crowdy”
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Janice E. Tulk (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
“Relations of Production in the Contemporary Native Music of Medicine Dream”

12:15 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 3:30

a) Localities

Beverley Diamond (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
“Newfoundland Recording: 25 years after Taft”

Joshua Tucker (University of Michigan)
“Articulating Ayacucho on Disc: Music, media, and Andean music in contemporary Peru”

Ngan Trinh (Concordia University)
“Charting the Trajectories of Popular Music in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ”

b) Ruptures: Séance à la mémoire de Roger Chamberland (Serge Lacasse, organizer)

Chantal Savoie (Collège militaire royal, Kingston)
“Credo d’amour”: Les rapports de force symboliques dans les chansons de Michel Louvain”

Nancy Jolicœur (Université Laval)
“Les enjeux du néo-punk: entre rupture et filiation”

Luc Bellemare (Université Laval)
“L’influence du travail de studio sur la perception formelle de “Paranoid Android” de Radiohead”

Patrick Roy (Université Laval)
“Radiohead ou l’évidement progressif du réel”

3:45 – 5:15

a) Producing Gender

Lori A. Burns (University of Ottawa)
Femin(ine/ist) Vocal Authority: Musical and narrative expressive strategies in alternative female rock artists (1993-95)

Nicholas Greco (McGill University)
“‘We’ll Let You Know’: The complex gender of Morrisey”

Chris McDonald (York University)
“Soundscapes, Gender and Technology in the Music of the Cocteau Twins”

b) Music and Technological Change

John Fishell & Paul D. Fischer (Middle Tennessee State University)
“From Lo-Fi to 5.1: Recording technology, philosophy and change”

Bernd Gottinger (State University of New York, Fredonia)
“Big Hair and Big Reverbs — Sound Recording Technology in the 1980s”

Karen E. Collins (University of Windsor)
“‘One-Bit Wonders’: Technology’s effect on early video game music”

7:00 Special Meeting: Québec/Ontario members of IASPM
Philip Tagg (convenor)

MONDAY MAY 17

9:30 – 10:30

a) From Turntables to Laptops

William A. Martin (McMaster University)
“‘Scratchin with precision, killing da competition’: The Canadian soul of the global drum and bass (d&b) nation”

Andrew Clark (University of Toronto)
“Taking The Studio On Tour: Laptop remixing and ‘Live P.A.’”

b) Pedagogy and the Recording Studio

Patrick M. Jones (University of the Arts, Philadelphia)
“Putting Music Education on the Right Track: Revisioning school music as recording studio”

Jan Marontate (Acadia University)
“New Technologies and Spaces of Musical Creation”

10:45 – 12:15

Histories II

Alan Stanbridge (University of Toronto)
“Preserving Spontaneity: Jazz, sound recording, and the paradox of authenticity”

Charles O’Brien (Carleton University)
“Music-Industry Recording Practice and Film Style in France, the United States, and Germany, 1926-1934″

Keir Keightley (University of Western Ontario)
“Proliferation of Discs: Record consciousness and the representation of the recording studio”

1:00 AGM

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