<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Everyone, <div><br></div><div>The Music and Philosophy Interest Group is proud to present two events at SMT 2011 in Minneapolis. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Friday, October 28, 5-7 PM: Business Meeting</b></div><div><b><i><br></i></b></div><div>At our business meeting we'll be discussing Veit Erlmann's new book, <i>Reason and Resonance, </i>in particular the chapters on Descartes and Helmholtz (Chapters 1 and 6). We'll hear two position papers: Ben Steege (SUNY Stonybrook), "'Reasonating': reflections on Veit Erlmann's historiography of aurality" and Amy Cimini (Penn), ""Resonance, Friendship and Descartes' Musical Secret". If you want to read some relevant excerpts from Erlmann's book, email me off list for a pdf.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Friday, October 28, 8-11 PM: Special Evening Session: "The Voice: medium or mediation?"</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>We've sponsored an exciting panel on the voice, with papers ranging from the Baroque to contemporary film theory. Here's the lineup:</div><div><br></div><div><div>André Redwood (Yale University), "Beyond Mechanics: Voice as Mediator in the Harmonie Universelle"</div><div>Jonathan De Souza (University of Chicago), "Rousseau, Stiegler, and the Technical Mediation of Voice"</div><div>Christopher M. Barry (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "A Cinematics of the Lyric Song-Subject"</div><div>Clara Latham (New York University),"Rethinking the Intimacy of Voice and Ear: Intimacy, Affect, and Pleasure in the Discourse of Hysteria"</div></div><div><br></div><div>Please direct any questions about these events, or any other Music and Philosophy Interest Group business, to <a href="mailto:brian.kane@yale.edu">brian.kane@yale.edu</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>See you Minneapolis,</div><div>Brian Kane</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">_________________</span></div><div>Brian Kane</div><div><div>Assistant Professor</div><div>Department of Music</div><div>Yale University</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>