Please join the Stanford Graduate Music Studies Forum (GMSF) for their third annual Graduate Research Symposium on May 17, 2025 at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. The theme for this year’s symposium is Representations. The symposium will run from 10AM – 4PM, with a 1 hour and 15 minute break for lunch starting at 12PM. 

We are interested in fostering trans-disciplinary conversation through research on music and sound in response to a set of provocations that we posed to our presenters to inspire their contributions:

Are there sonic phenomena that resist representation? How does musical representation capture, fix, or delimit—and can we imagine a representation that releases? Do we encounter the present distinctly from the re-present—the immediate from the mediated, the sound from the model, the performance from the recording? How can research/practice in sound and music help us answer the questions: is meaning always representational? Is representation always meaningful?

The full schedule, including abstracts, bios and other program info, is available on the symposium website.

Admission Information

• Free admission, please RSVP.
• Check in starts at 9:00am on the 2nd floor of The Knoll.

This symposium is made possible through the generous support of a SPICE grant from the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and the Stanford Department of Music.

Questions? Please contact: gradmusicsf@gmail.com