The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and
the National Endowment for the Humanities present
Cincinnati Sounds:
Exploring a Musical City's Spaces, Places, and Sounds
July 6–11 and July 20–25, 2025
Applications Due: 5 March 2025
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio
https://ccm.uc.edu/campaigns/2024/cincinnatisounds.html
Hosted and presented by ethno/musicology faculty at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati Sounds: Exploring a Musical City’s Spaces, Places and Sounds is a week-long residency during which visiting scholars immerse themselves in experiential site-based learning.
The goal of the project is for participants to investigate how Cincinnati landmarks – some still vibrant and carefully preserved, others lingering only in public memory – both shape and are shaped by music and sound. The workshop explores themes of education, instruments and sacred places, urban planning, performance, and social justice.
Daily explorations through presentations, discussions, site visits, methods of storytelling, and instruction on mapping sound provides a framework through which participants may hone tools for research and teaching about the connections between music, sound, and landmarks that they can adapt to their own urban spaces.