Wednesday, August 29, 2018
15 Minutes
I can't give a conference paper any more. I need to play 12-18 minutes of music, so giving a 20 minute talk doesn't make sense. Or 15, as I have seen in some conferences recently. Seriously? You want me to travel and have someone pay for that, and lodging, and I will speak for 15 minutes? I am not particularly long-winded, though more so than I used to be, but I need 50 minutes minimum nowadays. I wonder what musicologists do? Or maybe they can refer to music that their audience already knows so they don't have to play it.
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So be a symposium speaker or a keynote speaker.
A lot of the fun of conferences is listening to other people and seeing the books.
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