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James Guthrie (pictured) will present his new 5.1 Surround Sound remix of Roger Waters‘s “Amused to Death” next weekend at Princeton University.

The playback will be Saturday, April 12 at McAlpin Hall in Princeton’s Woolworth Music Center. The listening session, part of the Pink Floyd academic conference taking place Sunday, will include playback of Guthrie’s 5.1 mixes of “The Dark Side of the Moon” and “Wish You Were Here.”

Exact times are still being determined. The event is free, but R.S.V.P. is required.

Sunday’s events are sold out, but there will be a cancellation line at the door. No-show tickets will be released five minutes before each event begins.

Conference organizers Gilad Cohen and Dave Molk join us on this week’s “Floydian Slip” program to talk about the event.

Gutherie has worked as a producer and engineer for Floyd since the late-’70s. He’ll deliver the conference keynote Sunday at 5 p.m.

Visit the conference website for details.

Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., is hosting what it says is the first “interdisciplinary conference celebrating the music, art, and culture of Pink Floyd.”

Pink Floyd: Sound, Sight, and Structure will take place Sunday, April 13 at the university’s Taplin Auditorium.

At 4:40 p.m., longtime Floyd producer/engineer James Guthrie will provide the keynote speech titled “Surrounded by Recollections of Pink Floyd Records.” That evening, Guthrie will play host to playback of a number of Surround Sound mixes of Floyd classics.

Other events taking place in Princeton that weekend include talks by Princeton music composition PhD candidates and professors, live music, a screening of the 1982 feature film “Pink Floyd The Wall” and more.

The event is free, but R.S.V.P is required.

Learn more at the event’s website.

“The Pink Floyd Exhibition – Their Mortal Remains” will open Sept. 19 at La Fabbrica Del Vapore in Milan, Italy.

Presented by the band’s Italian promoter, Fran Tomasi, the exhibit will be a multimedia event chronicling the history of the group from its first album (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn [1967]) to present.

Surviving members Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason participated in the show’s development.

The exhibition will boast more than 300 artifacts displayed in nearly 27,000 square feet of space at the former factory. The show is designed by Stufish, longtime stage designers for the band, which was founded by the late Mark Fisher.

Aubrey “Po” Powell, surviving member of sleeve design firm Hipgnosis, is curator and creative director of the show. “If ever a band lent itself to a major retrospective exhibition it’s Pink Floyd,” he says. “For a curator, selecting what to include from such a treasure trove is both a dream and a nightmare. However, there were elements that just had to be included — for example a 20-meter-wide sculpture of The Wall, 5-meter-high inflatables and, of course, a flying pig.

“We shall be aiming for state-of-the-art visuals and sonic delivery. Similar to the experience of attending a Pink Floyd concert, you never know what to expect next,” he adds.

Admission to the four-week exhibit will be €15. Tickets go on sale Thursday, Feb. 27.

Details are at the event’s official site.

Nectar’s night club in Burlington, Vt., will play host to a series of evenings of Pink Floyd music in December.

“Dark Side of the Mountain” is a project created by drummer Matt Burr of Vermont band Grace Potter & the Nocturnals and fellow Vermont musician Bob Wagner.

Burr and Wagner will be joined by a variety of other artists each Wednesday night in December performing the music of Pink Floyd accompanied by a projection light show.

Shows Dec. 4, 11 and 18 are free to attend. The series culminates with a ticketed performance featuring Marco Benevento at Club Metronome, above Nectar’s, on Dec. 29. Tickets for the final performance are $8 in advance, $12 day of show.

“I’ll never forget the first time I heard ‘Animals’ and ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ as a kid,” says Burr. “It was a space ship for my brain, with pristine arrangements, tones, harmonies, solos, and chords. Every note was golden, and no one ever over-played.

“All of their albums continue to blow my mind, especially their masterful work in the ’70s,” he adds “The brilliant meat and potatoes drumming of Nick Mason has played a huge role in my development as a drummer.”

Burr along with the Nocturnals have toured with Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, The Allman Bros. Band, Dave Matthews, Avett Bros. and others. The group’s fourth and latest album is “The Lion The Beast The Beat,” available on Hollywood Records.

Learn more about “Dark Side of the Mountain.”

Burr and Potter recently married. Here’s hoping she’s brushing up her “Great Gig in the Sky.”