Please join us for the NorCal chapter meeting! There is no conference registration but we ask that members pay their chapter dues at this link. Dues are $15, or free for students.
Date: April 11, 2026
Location:
CCRMA Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
660 Lomita Ct, Stanford, CA 94305
There is visitor parking at the bottom of the hill by Tresidder Union as well as up the hill on the way to CCRMA. Visitor parking is free on weekends.
PROGRAM (updated April 10)
9:30: coffee and pastries (provided)
10:00–11:30: Paper Session 1: Music and Politics
Session chair: Sean Keenan
Mariana Da Silva Gabriel (UC Davis), ‘Fado in the Free World: Cultural Diplomacy, and the Sound of Portugal in Cold War North America’
Kolawole Rasheed (UC Santa Cruz), ‘#EndSARS Lekki Massacre: The National Anthem as Performative Demand and the Failure of Recognition’
Soren Edward Nyhus (UC Berkeley), ‘Early Music and Jazz: The German Jugendmusikbewegung Between History and Modernity’
11:45–12:45: Paper Session 2: Improvisation and Material Culture
Session chair: Erica Buurman
Sean Keenan (UC Santa Cruz), “David Moss Dense Band: Structuring Improvisation in the Studio”
Theodora Serbanescu-Martin (Cornell), “Liszt as Necromancer: Morgues, Dead Hands, and the Thermodynamics of Romantic Pianism”
12:45–1:40: lunch (provided)
Business meeting: 1:40-2:00
2:00-3:30: Paper Session 2: From Berkeley to Nashville: Broadcast Sound, Musical Cartographies, and Collaboration in America
Session chair: Chris East
Matthew Gilbert (Stanford), ‘Singing Maps & Musical Geographies’
Grant Knox (San José State University), ‘Exploring William Grant Still’s Collaborative Partnership with Artie Shaw and his Orchestra’
Ian Mahanpour (UC Berkeley), ‘Towards a Radiophonic Ethics: Broadcasted Soundscapes in The World Ear Project 1970–1973’