Program

2nd LMTA International Conference and Master Classes / GEECT Conference 2017 

MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN IN FILM AND NEW MEDIA

WHEN THEORY MEETS PRACTICE

27 – 30 (Wednesday – Saturday) September 2017

PROGRAM

 

27 September 2017 (Wednesday), MISC, LMTA, Gedimino ave. 42

19:00 – Concert of Audiovisual music (Includes the presentation of the final results of the International students’ workshop “Cinematic experience of sound”; Head of the Workshop – Assoc. Prof. Titas Petrikis, Vilnius University; Practical assistance for workshop – Mantautas Krukauskas, LMTA / GEECT).   Short guided tour around Academy.

At the end of the concert Opening and Welcome Cocktails for the conference guests, restaurant Alive, address: Gedimino pr. 31

 

28 September 2017 (Thursday), Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Gedimino ave. 51

Conference Hall

9:00 – Registration

9:45 – Conference Opening and Welcome Speeches

Rector of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre Prof. Zbignevas Ibelgauptas and Chair of the Executive Council of GEECT Bert Beyens

1st session.

Moderator PhD in philosophy Arūnas Gelūnas

10:00 – 11:00 – Key speaker Prof. Claudia Gorbman, PhD (University of Washington; emerita, USA)

“Music Heard and Unheard for Audiovisual Media”

11:00 – 12:00 – Key speaker Prof. Frederick Kuklowsky (University of Hertfordshire, UK / GEECT)

“The Hollywood Sound in Everyone’s Backyard“

 

12:00 –12:30 – Coffee break

 

12:30 –14:30 – Parallel Sessions

2nd session (Conference Hall). Seeing through Hearing

Moderator PhD in philosophy Arūnas Gelūnas

Prof. Francesco Ronzon, PhD (Academy of Fine Art-Verona, Politecnico-Milano, Italy)

“Ecology of Media. An anthropological reflection about the socio-cultural links between seeing and hearing in old and new media. Three ethnographic case studies”

Prof. Luís Cláudio Ribeiro, PhD  (Lusófona University, Portugal / GEECT)

“Sound and Fragment in Artistic Practices“

Prof. Michael Kowalski (Chapman University, USA / CNA / CILECT)

“The Cocktail Party Effect: Where Psychoacoustics Meets Cinematic Storytelling”.

Dr. Dan-Stefan Rucareanu / Stefan Damian (National University of Theatre and Film “I. L. Caragiale“, Bucharest, Romania / GEECT)

“Connective Listening – a New Mode of Listening and its Application in VR“

 

3rd session (Cinema Hall). Migrating Genres

Moderator Prof. Marchwica Wojciech, PhD

Lector univ. Laura Lazarescu-Thois, PhD (National University of Theatre and Film “I. L. Caragiale“, Film Faculty, Bucharest, Romania / GEECT)

“Sound Design in the Animated Film. About the sound aesthetics, techniques and particularities in animation movies“

Assoc. Prof. Svenn Jakobsen (Oslo School of Arts, Norway / GEECT)

“Abstracting Reality – Designing Sound for Documentaries“

Prof. Jörg Lensing (Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany / GEECT)

„Director of Sound vs. Sound-Operator“

Dr. Richard Stevens (Leeds Beckett University, UK / GEECT)

“Mario, Mickey-Mouse, and Morricone: Interactivity and Synchronization in Video-Game Music”

 

14:30 – 16.00 – Lunch  (for conference guests)

Hotel Ratonda, address: Gedimino pr. 53/A. Rotundos str. 1

 

16:00 – 17:30 Panel discussion: Intercontinental Reflections on the Teaching of Sound

Asst. prof. Ross Adrian Williams (School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore / CILECT) “Pedagogy of Sound Design: Teaching film sound analysis to filmmakers”

Jurre Haanstra (Conservatory of Amsterdam, Netherlands Film Academy / GEECT) “Composing for Film – a dialogue with sound design”

Jack Beck (School of Film & Animation, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY / CILECT) “Teaching Film Sound Theory courses at RIT”

Moderators PhD in philosophy Arūnas Gelūnas and Chair of the Executive Council of GEECT Bert Beyens

 

20:00 Opening Dinner at the invitation of GEECT (for conference guests)

Restaurant La Bohème, address: Šv. Ignoto str. 4/3

 

29 September 2017 (Friday), Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Gedimino ave. 51

4th session (Conference Hall)

Moderator PhD in philosophy Arūnas Gelūnas

10:00 – 11:00 – Key speaker assoc. Prof. Aner Preminger, PhD (Sapir Academic College, Israel / GEECT)

“The Power of Sound in Creating Humor: Chaplin – A Pioneer of Audio-Gags and Sound Design“

11:00 – 12.00 – Presentation of Michel Chion‘s paper “Twenty-Years of Arvo Pärt in Film Scores: A Universalist Utopia?” (discussion with the author via video link)

 

12:00 – 12:30 – Coffee break

 

12:30 – 15:00 – Parallel Sessions

 

5th session (Cinema Hall). Discovering Paths

Moderator Prof. Mindaugas Urbaitis

Adele Fletcher (University of Hertfordshire / UK, GEECT)

“Emotional Approach to Sound Editing”

Ben Zijlstra (Netherlands Film Academy / GEECT)

“Sound Design in Production Sound Recording”

Prof. Klas Dykhoff (Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden / GEECT)

“Non-Linear Work Methods as a Pedagogical Tool in Teaching Film”

Dr. Martine Huvenne (KASK & Conservatory, School of Arts, University College Ghent, Belgium / GEECT)

“Transmitting an Experience: Starting from Sound to Develop an Audiovisual Work”

Andor Márton Horváth University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest, Hungary / GEECT)

„A New Approach to Film Sound Theory“

 

6th session (Conference Hall). A Sense of Origin

Moderator PhD in philosophy Arūnas Gelūnas

Prof. Wojciech Marchwica, PhD (Jagiellonian University, Institute of Musicology, Krakow, Poland)

“Symbolic and Transcendental Elements in Zbigniew Preisner’s Film Music“

Jeronimo Sarmiento (Lusófona University, Portugal / Tallinn University, Estonia / GEECT) “Cinematic Polyphony in Lucrecia Martel’s Cinema – The musicality of Narrative Film“

Levan Bagration-Davitashvili, PhD (Shota Rustaveli State University of Theater and Film, Georgia / GEECT)

“Basic of Georgian Film Music for Students of Theater and Film University”

Prof. Antanas Kučinskas, PhD / Mantautas Krukauskas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, GEECT)

“Soundscape in Natural and Virtual Spaces: Recent Developments in Lithuania within Artistic Context”

Sudipto, Acharyya (Film and Television Institute of India, Pune / CAPA / CILECT)

“Brother, I too Wanted to Live and Disavowal of the Mother Figure in Ritwik Ghatak’s Cloud Clapped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara–1960)“

 

15.00 Lunch (for conference guests)

Hotel Ratonda, address: Gedimino pr. 53/A. Rotundos str. 1

 

16:30 Guided Tour of Vilnius (for conference guests)

Starts from Hotel Ratonda, address: Gedimino pr. 53/A. Rotundos str. 1

 

19:00 Film screening and concert of musique concrète by Michel Chion at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vokiečių st. 2

 

20:30 Dinner (for conference guests)

Restaurant SaulaDidžioji str. 26

 

September 30, 2017 (Saturday), Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Gedimino ave. 51

Master classes

Moderator dr. Titas Petrikis

Conference Hall

10:00 – 12:30 Two master classes with composer, sound designer, theorist Prof. Stephen Deutsch(Bournemouth University, UK / GEECT) and sound designer, editor, Director of the School of Sound Larry Sider (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK).

“Rethinking the Soundtrack: How Decisions about Sound Have an Impact on the Production of Films”

 

12:30 – 13:00 Coffee break

 

13:00 – 14:30

Sound designer Vytis Puronas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre / GEECT)

“Letting it Be: Resisting the Temptation to Improve. Sound Restoration of the Anthology of Lithuanian Documentary Cinema”

 

14:30 – 15:00 Closing remarks

Chair of the Executive Council of GEECT Bert Beyens

 

15:00 Lunch (for conference guests)

Hotel Ratonda, address: Gedimino pr. 53/A. Rotundos str. 1

 

19.00 Optional cultural event (concert) or free time

Departure after lunch on 30 September or 1 October.