Hi everyone,

We are still looking for volunteers for the Special Session Proposal Committee! If you are interested but would rather not post on the discussion board, feel free to email me directly: antares [at] pdx.edu.

Best,

Tara (and Laura)

One important clarification: you cannot submit a proposal if you are on the committee!

-Tara

Thanks, Noah. You are absolutely correct–the format of the 2022IG is open and it won’t be planned for a while (actually, it will be planned by our new leadership team since Tara and I will be stepping down as co-chairs after this year’s meeting.)

Laura

The overall three-event plan sounds wonderful! My one thought is that for the 2022 IG meeting, I don’t think we need to set a format yet. Amy Bauer is skeptical of lightning talks as noted above, and I’m not sure there how many people are working on Xenakis and would want to submit, so something more workshop-like might be a better fit. But of…[Read more]

Hello everyone and thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Tara and I discussed some possibilities and this is what we propose:

• 2021 Post-1945 IG meeting: Diversity and Inclusion in the Pedagogy of Contemporary Music Analysis workshop with Robert Hasegawa
• 2022 SMT Special session on pedagogy
• 2022 Post-1945 IG meeting: lightning talks on…

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Oh geez, yes. That’s on me. My apologies. The IG I attend most often is
still working out it’s 2021 activities . . .

Got it! Sorry, I misunderstood the source of confusion. I think this discussion is to plan a session for the 2022 conference.

Best,
Chris

(Right, Chris—had meant that the Xenakis celebration could wait for 2022.)

I really like the Xenakis session idea! I don’t know much about Xenakis’s music, and I’d love to learn from people who have studied it. (Sorry Keith—Xenakis was definitely born in 1922.)

The pedagogy idea is great, too. I could contribute a proposal to be considered for that session, something I couldn’t do for Xenakis.

Would either session w…[Read more]

Hi, all,

I, too, am in favor of a pedagogy-focused, Post-1945-sponsored session, especially if it’s broadly conceived (as it currently seems to be).

Hope you’re all well!

Hi everyone,

long-time listener, first-time ‘caller’ . . .

I like Antares’s ideas about pedagogy, and think that a session on that
would be timely—whether it’s carefully limited to post-1945 or not. So,
I’ll second that.

Maybe Xenakis waits until next year, where he hits that nice, round number?

Hi Amy, thanks for your thoughts! To clarify, this isn’t for the interest group meeting itself—this would be for a special session proposal that would go through the normal SMT proposal process. If accepted, it would be a normal paper session that is “sponsored” by the IG. This is something a few of the IGs have done in recent years. The special s…[Read more]

I have been vocal about my support for workshop-type presentations in the past, but I realize that lightning talks are the most common structure for the IG meetings. Here is one compromise that fills in the gap: summary discussions of the general techniques common in any of the anniversary composers. It would be very useful, for instance, for…[Read more]