Third international conference: “Poetry, Music and Sound Art: Recent Medial Correlations”
28 May 2024

Photo: Martin Sigmund / Musik der Jahrhunderte
The third international and interdisciplinary conference on the topic “Poetry, Music and Sound Art: Recent Medial Constellations” will take place at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg on June 20-22, 2024. Responsible for the conception and organization of the conference are the researchers of Sub-Project 2, Kira Henkel and Vadim Keylin, with the help of our former colleague Rebecka Dürr.
Poetry and music have been closely intertwined since ancient times – a relationship reflected in the very term “lyric” being derived from “lyre”, a musical instrument. While the modern era has been largely dominated by print poetry, the “secondary orality” of audiovisual media and the “tertiary orality” of digital culture have brought about a resurgence of diverse oral and musicalized poetic forms. The conference explores the reciprocal relationship between poetry and sound/music. It investigates the various musical or sonic settings of poetry in the digital age: from contemporary art songs, to rap and experimental spoken word, to poetic sound installations. At the same time, it considers the musicality inherent to current poetry: the ways sound and music are present in poetic texts and their performances in both form and content.
The conference languages are English and German, the conference program and all further information can be found here: https://www.poetry-digital-age.uni-hamburg.de/en/veranstaltungen/tagungen/sp2.html