The Music Box and its Reverberations: Technology and Music in India

<strong>The School of Arts and Aesthetics</strong> <strong>And</strong> <strong>The "Music, Digitisation, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies" project</strong> <strong>At the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford</strong> An International Conference <strong>The Music Box and its Reverberations: Technology and Music in India</strong> from&nbsp;<strong>14th January - 17 January 2015</strong> The conference aims to trace musical experiences in the Indian context as they are mediated by technologies of music production, circulation and consumption. Choosing to concentrate on the aural as against the audiovisual (following Ochoa Gautier 2006), we draw upon scholarship from several disciplinary orientations to focus on selected domains of the interfaces between sound socialities and musical technologies. Bringing together perspectives from academics and practitioners, papers, roundtable discussions and performances will address the following themes, without being limited to them: Sonic technologies, aesthetic regimes and the crafting of genres/categories Technologies, digitization and film music industries Individuals, institutes and processes of collecting, storing and archiving music Amplification, circulation and the creation of musical/sonic publics Enmeshed technologies of the object and listening subject/s and practices Musical livelihoods, economies and sonic technologies