We had a wonderful meeting in Jacksonville! We hosted a session of lightning talks considering the last/next ten years of multimedia scholarship, including presentations by Laine Gruver, Adam Rizzo, Austin Wilson, and Clair Nguyen. The session also included two invited presentations by the group’s founders, Juan Chattah and Frank…[Read more]

Don’t forget that our FMIG meeting will be on Saturday (November 9) at 7:00 PM in City Terrace 9. Follow the link below for more information about the wonderful presentations in store.

https://www.conftool.org/smt2024/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=48

I’ll also mention here (an…[Read more]

We have two wonderful nominees to take over as the co-chairs for the Film and Multimedia IG for the next two years, Clair Nguyen and Chelsea Oden. In order to officially inaugurate them, we will have a confirmation vote using the Google form linked below. This will require you to log in to a Google account, but the ballot will not…[Read more]

For this year’s meetup, we will be hosting a session of lightning talks that consider the last ten years and the next ten y…[Read more]

This serves as a reminder that the AMS Music and Media Study Group and the SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group are organizing a Virtual Movie Discussion Hangout for Friday, August 16, 2024, at 8:00 PM EDT.

We are preparing a “double feature” considering Shirley Walker’s score to Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) in coordin…[Read more]

The Film and Multimedia Interest Group has been meeting for over a decade to promote and expand scholarship in the discipline. The political, socio-cultural, technological, and economic upheavals of the past ten years have caused dramatic changes to academic…[Read more]

The AMS Music and Media Study Group and the SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group are organizing a Virtual Movie Discussion Hangout for Friday, August 16, 2024, at 8:00 PM EDT. Our plan with this event is to discuss film music in a casual, informal setting.

We are preparing a “double feature” considering Shirley Walker’s score to [Read more]

Program Committee:
Carissa Baker, University of Central Florida
Jason Brame, Walt Disney World
Elizabeth Randell Upton, University of California Los Angeles
Dan White, University of Huddersfield

The conference All Ears: Music and Sound in and Beyond Disney Theme Parks will be held at the University of Central Florida, Rosen…[Read more]

Nominations are open for our interest group Publication Award! Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter on the topic of film or multimedia music published within the previous three calendar years (2021, 2022, or 2023) is eligible. Anyone may nominate a publication, and self-nominations are…[Read more]

Please join me in welcoming and congratulating our new Co-Chairs for the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group, Noah Kahrs and Gui Hwan Lee! They have passed the confirmation vote and will be taking over day-to-day operations in the coming weeks, so feel free to reach out to them if you have any questions or ideas.

It has been a…[Read more]

It has now been a couple months since our meeting in Denver. It was wonderful to see everyone and enjoy some thought-provoking scholarship presented by Kate Mancey, Noah Kahrs, and Jennifer Iverson. Thanks to all of those who presented and all those who attended!

We also announced the two winners of the Post-1945 Music Analysis…[Read more]

This serves as the final reminder that our upcoming Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group meeting is scheduled for 12:30 PM on Friday, November 10, in the “Silver” meeting room. We will be hosting an exciting session on electronic and synthesized sound. Jennifer Iverson will give a featured talk on the topic of her current book pro…[Read more]

This serves as the final reminder that our upcoming Film and Multimedia Interest Group meeting is scheduled for 7:30 PM on Friday, November 10, in the “Silver” meeting room. We will be hosting a session of fabulous Work-in-Progress Lightning Talks by Abigail Shupe, Eileen Snyder, Chelsea Oden, Gui Hwan Lee, and Morgan Weeks. We wil…[Read more]

I’m very much looking forward to seeing all of you in Denver for our meeting! As previously announced, our planned session (Considering Electronic and Synthesized Sound) will include presentations by Kate Mancey, Noah Kahrs, and Jennifer Iverson. I hope you are all as excited as I am about these presentations, which will take place on…[Read more]

We are excited to invite all of you to our upcoming Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group meeting at the SMT Annual Meeting in Denver this November! The meeting is scheduled for 12:30 PM on Friday, November 10. For this year’s meetup, we will be hosting a planned session: Considering Electronic and Synthesized Sound.

We are t…[Read more]

We are excited to invite all of you to our upcoming Film and Multimedia Interest Group meeting at the SMT Annual Meeting in Denver this November! The meeting is scheduled for 7:30 PM on Friday, November 10. For this year’s meetup, we will be hosting a session of Work-in-Progress Lightning Talks.

The presenters will offer 1…[Read more]

When Walt Disney created Disneyland, his ambition was to revolutionise the amusement park as a form of entertainment. His design philosophy of the theme park was one of a m…[Read more]

This serves as a reminder that the AMS Music and Media Study Group and the SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group will host a Virtual Movie Discussion Hangout for Friday, August 11, 2023, at 8:00 PM EDT.

We are preparing to discuss the Director’s Cut of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (written and directed by Steven Spielberg, s…[Read more]

The AMS Music and Media Study Group and the SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group are organizing a Virtual Movie Discussion Hangout for Friday, August 11, 2023, at 8:00 PM EDT. Our plan with this event is to discuss a movie and its music in a casual, informal setting.

For our first attempt at this endeavor, we are preparing to d…[Read more]

• “Combination Tones and Ring Models of Frequency” Noah Kahrs (Eastman School of Music)

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We invite volunteers to present both informal “research updates” (5–10…[Read more]

We invite volunteers to present both informal “research updates” (5–10 minutes) and more formal “lightning talks” (10–15 minutes) that engage with the topic “Mathem…[Read more]

Please consider submitting your published articles or book chapters for consideration for the SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award.

Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter published between January 2020 and December 2022 on analysis of post-1945 music within modernist, experimental,…[Read more]

For those of you that missed the announcement at our recent business meeting during the conference, please join me in congratulating the winner of the 2022 Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award, Jocelyn Ho!

Please see below for the full announcement from the award…[Read more]

The Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group has a couple exciting activities at this year’s annual meeting, and we hope that you will attend and support the authors and organizers that have been working to put things together.

The interest group is sponsoring a special session that will take place on Saturday morning of the c…[Read more]

This is a brief message to ask you about two things. First, as you may have seen recently from SMT-Announce, the society is soliciting volunteers to video-record conference sessions and interest group meetings. We need a volunteer to record our meeting (early Saturday afternoon). If you are able to…[Read more]

Please consider submitting your published articles or book chapters for consideration for the SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award.

Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter published between January 2019 and December 2021 on analysis of post-1945 music within modernist, experimental,…[Read more]

As your new co-chairs, we wanted to send a quick message to tell you about our current projects, and we also wanted to see if you would like to be involved in these activities. We are working on two things that might be of interest to you.

We are putting together the call for…[Read more]