The Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group is a discursive space for scholars of music after 1945, with an emphasis on the modernist, experimental, and avant-garde. Through its annual meetings and online communications, the group aims to strengthen, support, and develop its members’ ideas and sense of community. It also seeks to bring attention to and foster scholarship on post-1945 music both within the Society for Music Theory and in music scholarship at large.

Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Meeting

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    • 19 October 2023 at 11:54 am EDT #74169

      William Ayers
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      @williamrayers

      Dear colleagues,

      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 thrilled to announce that Jennifer Iverson (University of Chicago) will give a featured talk on the topic of her current book project, Porous Instruments: Synthesizers and the Circulation of Cultural Value.

      In addition to this featured talk, we will have two introductory presentations by Kate Mancey (Harvard University) and Noah Kahrs (Eastman School of Music) that will serve as catalysts for discussion with our featured speaker and our members. Full meeting schedule below.

      12:30–12:40 PM: Brief business matters
      Reminder of online nomination and election process for new co-chairs
      Announcement of Publication Award winner

      12:40–2:00 PM: Considering Electronic and Synthesized Sound
      Boot Beep: Startup Chimes and the Personal Computer
      Kate Mancey (Harvard University)

      What is “one note” on a synthesizer?
      Noah Kahrs (Eastman School of Music)

      Porous Instruments: Synthesizers and the Circulation of Cultural Value
      Jennifer Iverson (University of Chicago)

      My best,
      Will Ayers

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