International Conference: Alternative Histories of Electronic Music, 2016

This first international conference on ‘Alternative Histories of Electronic Music’ (AHEM) was staged at The Science Museum Research Centre, London, on 14-16 April 2016 as part of an AHRC-funded project exploring the work of the English musician and musicologist Hugh Davies (1943-2005). The project is led by Dr James Mooney (University of Leeds) in partnership with Dr Tim Boon (Science Museum). http://hughdaviesproject.wordpress.com In the late 1960s, Davies produced a comprehensive inventory of electronic music compositions, entitled International Electronic Music Catalog (1968), in which he documented the output of 560 studios in 39 countries. This challenged the hegemony of the Paris, Cologne, and New York schools, whose activities had dominated the literature of the 1950s and 60s. As such, Davies provided what was perhaps the first alternative version of electronic music’s history. While this conference is not directly ‘about’ Hugh Davies, then, it does explore some of the broader issues raised by his work.

首届"电子音乐另类史"（Alternative Histories of Electronic Music，简称AHEM）国际学术会议于2016年4月14日至16日在伦敦科学博物馆研究中心举办，该活动系英国艺术与人文研究委员会（Arts and Humanities Research Council，简称AHRC）资助的研究项目的组成部分，项目旨在探究英国音乐家、音乐学家休·戴维斯（Hugh Davies，1943-2005）的学术与创作实践。本项目由利兹大学詹姆斯·穆尼博士牵头，联合伦敦科学博物馆的蒂姆·布恩博士共同开展，项目官方主页为http://hughdaviesproject.wordpress.com。20世纪60年代末，戴维斯编纂了一部综合性电子音乐作品目录——《国际电子音乐目录》（International Electronic Music Catalog，1968），其中记录了39个国家共560家工作室的电子音乐创作产出。该目录打破了巴黎、科隆与纽约学派的学术霸权——这三大流派的研究活动曾主导了20世纪50至60年代的电子音乐学术文献。就此而言，戴维斯或许首次构建了电子音乐历史的另类叙事框架。尽管本次会议并非直接以休·戴维斯为核心议题，但确实围绕其研究工作所引发的诸多宏观学术议题展开了深入探讨。