Presented as a special series broadcast at 7 p.m. on the first three Saturdays in January, The Status of Sound: Writing histories of sonic art was a day-long conference at the Graduate Center City University of New York on November 30, 2012. free103point9 is delighted to share the following presentations and discussions from this lively and important conference with WGXC audiences:

Saturday, January 5, 2012, 7 p.m.:
Sound Practice: Working Across Disciplines
Moderator: Meredith Mowder, Doctoral Student, Art History, The Graduate Center
"Sound Art/Music: Performing Nam June Paik's Early Compositions" Miki Kaneda, MoMA, Ph.D., Music (Ethnomusicology), University of California Berkeley
"Valie Export and the Sexual Politics of Sound" Amalle Dublon, Doctoral Student, Literature (with Certificate in Feminist Studies), Duke University
"The Other Side of Time: Vibration, Mythscience, and the Tapes of DJ Screw" David Michael Perez, M.A. History of Art with Honors, Goldsmiths, London
"Physical Memories: The Audio-visual Assemblages, of Oneohtrix Point Never" Hisham Awad, M.A., in Aural and Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, London

Saturday, January 12, 2012, 7 p.m.:
Recording Sound: Theorizing Sonic Art
Moderator: Lauren Rosati, Doctoral Student, Art History, The Graduate Center
"Ephemeral, Immersive, Invasive: Sound as Curatorial Theme, 1966-2006" Seth Cluett, Doctoral Candidate, Music Composition, Princeton University
"Out of Earshot, Out of Mind, The Tribulations of Object-oriented Sound" Rahma Khazam, Doctoral Candidate, Art and Aesthetics, Unversite de la Sorbonne, Paris
"Vibrant Matter: Sound Art and Locational Determinacy" Charles Eppley, Doctoral Student, Art History, Stony Brook University
"Sounding the Body Electric: Experiments in Art and Music from Eastern Europe in the 1960s" David Crowley, Professor, Royal College of Art, London

Saturday, January 19, 2012, 7 p.m.:
Keynote Roundtable Discussion
Dr. Christoph Cox, Professor of Philosophy, Hampshire College
Dr. David Grubbs, Associate Professor at the Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College
Dr. Brandon Joseph, Professor of Art History, Columbia University
Marina Rosenfeld, Professor of Music and Sound, Bard College


The Status of Sound is sponsored by the PhD program in Art History, John Rewald Endowment of the PhD Program in Art History and the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center. free103point9 extends a special thank you to Andrew Cappetta, Kendra Sullivan, Sarah Resnick, and Katherine Carl for making this broadcast possible.