About UTS Music.Sound.Design Symposium 2008

The faculties of Design, Architecture and Building and Humanities and Social Sciences at UTS are together embarking on a project to develop a new undergraduate program emphasizing cross-disciplinary practice across the areas of Music, Sound and Design and as part of that process are holding the UTS Music.Sound.Design Symposium 2008.

Designed as a launch for the project the symposium will run from Wednesday February 13 to Friday February 15 2008 and will feature a mix of panel presentations, keynotes and performances, all of which are free and open to the public as well as some private workshop sessions where delegates will be assisting us to develop the new program.

Presenters will delve into issues across such diverse practices as acoustics, composition, recording, installation, broadcast, sound in the environment, instrument building, interactivity, performance, audiovisuals, new media/game sound, theatre/film sound and auditory culture, materiality and technology theory.

Special guests include Yasunao Tone (Japan), Ernest Edmonds (UK) and Kees Tazelaar (Netherlands), who will present keynotes alongside delegates including Philip Samartzis, John Bassett, Damian Castaldi, Densil Cabrera, Theo van Leeuwen, Shannon O'Neill, Nigel Helyer, Sherre Delys, Kirsten Reese, Bert Bongers, Andrew Johnston, Stephen Barrass, Danielle Wilde, Donna Hewitt, Norie Neumark, Ian Andrews, Darrin Verhagen, Tom Ellard, Andrew Plain, Ben Byrne, Peter Blamey, Mitchell Whitelaw, Caleb Kelly, Robin Fox, James Hurley and Julian Knowles.