Picturing Sound is a one-day conference bringing together a wide range of scholarly interests focusing on music and visual culture. It will take place in the Special Collections of Glasgow University, on the 12th floor of the Library.

Picturing Sound seeks to discuss the rich and varied interactions between music and static images in the media ecology: from LP covers to the representation of music culture in comic books, as well as exploring the visual identity of music genres and theatrical soundstage. This interdisciplinary conference aims to enhance our understanding of contemporary audiovisual productions (see abridged programme below).

In addition to a wide range of academic presentations, we are also very pleased to annouce that Glasgow-born-and-based artist Vincent Deighan, better know under the name Frank Quitely, will join us to discuss the making of various LP covers he has designed in recent years. Vincent is well-known in the comics community for his work on, among others, New X-Men, We3 and Jupiter's Legacy.

The conference will conclude with a unique exhibition contributing to the long-existing practice of combining music and printed art. As such, it will showcase a juxtaposition of priceless Renaissance manuscripts and emblems, held by the Special Collections of the University, with an original contemporary soundscape composed by Postgraduate students of the Music department.

Along with the College of Arts' generous funding via the Collaborative Research Award, Picturing Sound has received the support of the Music department and the Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of Text/Image Cultures.

THIS CONFERENCE IS LIMITED TO 40 SEATS - First come first served.

For more information, please contact: picturingsoundgu@gmail.com

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09:30 – Keynote address: Asbjørn Grønstad (University of Bergen)

10:45 – Panel 1 – LPs (Chair: Chris Vezza)

Dr Lyndon Way (University of Liverpool) – Music and Image in Protest: The Roles of Music/Static Image Mash-ups in Turkey’s Gezi Park

Dr Cinla Seker (Dokuz Eylül University) – Harmonious Contrasts, Contrasting the Harmonious: A Form-Content Analysis of the Album Covers of the Band “The Fall”

Dr Stuart Medley (Edith Cowan University) – Small Rewards: Record Sleeves from a Contemporary Maker’s P.O.V.

13:20 – Organisers address: Guillaume Lecomte and Chris Vezza (University of Glasgow) – Look, Listen, Impact: Self-reflection on Researching Text-Images studies at the University of Glasgow

13:45 – Panel 2 – COMICS (Chair: Prof Laurence Grove)

Dr David Sweeney (Glasgow School of Art) – Music as Social Fiction in the Comic Books Blue Monday and Phonogram

Vincent ‘Frank Quitely’ Deighan (Glasgow)– Vincent will discuss the design of LP covers he designed, and the creative process behind LP covers and/as comics

15:00 – Panel 3 – INTERMEDIALITY (Chair: Guillaume Lecomte)

Prof Kate Maxwell (University of Tromsø) and Dr Jon Greenaway (Manchester Metropolitan University): Sex, Money, and the Negotiation of the Pornographic Image of the Female Body in Hip Hop

Dr Kyle Barnett (Bellarmine University): Listening to and Looking at Silent Film-Era Stardom: Talk-O-Photo Records and the Multi-Sensory Consumption of Celebrity'

Dr Caitriona Cassidy (University of Glasgow): Sound, Image and the Play: A Comparative Study of Productions of The Duchess [of Malfi] (2019) and Rhinoceros (2017 & 2018)

16:45 – Concluding Remarks (Dr Louise Harris, School of Culture & Creative Arts; and Prof Laurence Grove, Stirling Maxwell Centre, University of Glasgow), Exhibition (Glasgow University Special Collection), and Wine Reception.

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