Quiet Relations: A Sound Studies Symposium

October 20 9:30 a.m.-- October 21 4:00 p.m. "Quiet Relations" gathers eighteen scholars from across ethnomusicology, musicology, anthropology, and disabilities studies to ask: in a time saturated by metaphors of empowering voices and the unjust silences, how might we listen to and for the quiet beyond binaries of sound and silence? What otherwise modes of relations might be enabled and sustained quietly? These eighteen scholars are, incidentally, chapter authors and co-editors of a book in the making called Quiet Relations: A Minor Volume (under contract with Duke UP). We study the sociality, aesthetics, and heterodox politics of quiet, in order to 1) critically rethink the coupling of sound with significance and subjectivity that pervades contemporary understandings of sound and music, and 2) reflect on the shadows of sound knowledge production at the edge of our own auralities. Free and open to the public. All are welcome.