On Saturday, February 25 at 9:30am, Gamelan Sekar Jaya Guest Music Director Ni Nyoman Srayamurtikanti will present her piece "Speech Delay," together with a presentation about her compositional process writing and performing contemporary music for Balinese gender wayang.
Her presentation is first on the program of a day-long conference presented by the Northern California Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, which will include presentations of new research by Northern California ethnomusicologists. The conference is open to everyone, and you may drop in and out for presentations that interest you.
Day-of registration is required to attend the conference: Sliding scale, $5 - $20.
Conference Program
8:30am Registration and Complimentary Breakfast
Registration fee: $5 to $20 sliding scale (on-site only)
9:30am Session 1: Creative Process / Grain of the Voice
“‘Speech Delay’: A Contemporary Composition for Balinese Gender Wayang”
Ni Nyoman Srayamurtikanti, Balinese Gamelan Musician & Composer
Musicians: Pete Steele, Monali Varaiya, Dillon Ingram, Ni Nyoman Srayamurtikanti
“Teaching Shinmyung: Affect, Aesthetics and the Pitfalls of Translation in P’ansori”
Zoe Ryu, Stanford University
“Vocal Grit: A Phenomenological Analysis of Mahalia Jackson’s Timbre”
Chiquitha Aminsalehi, UC Merced
“Poetry, Genre, (In)Visibility: How Difference Fades to a Pop-Shimmer”
Sonia Gaind-Krishnan, New York University
11:30am Lunch Break
12:30pm Session 2: Christianity and its Others / Pleasure and Violence
“Theopolitical Function of Logos in Early Spanish Proto-Ethnographic Epistle from the New World”
Matthew Gilbert, Stanford University
“Sounding Faith: Constraining Refugee Voices in the Catholic Church of Lesvos”
Jennifer Sherrill, UC Davis
“‘Wafa’: The Play of Politics and Pleasure in a Basque Song”
Caitlin Romtvedt, UC Berkeley
“Breaking Aural Boundaries in the City of Santiago An Ethnographic Approach to Chilean Reggaetón Culture in the early 2000s”
Ana María Díaz-Pinto, UC Davis
2:30pm High Tea
3:15pm Business Meeting
4:15pm Keynote Speaker: Roshanak Kheshti, UC Berkeley
6:00pm Concert with Dion Nataraja and Mat Muntz
