Hello all,

If you’re receiving this notification through Humanities Commons, you are eligible to vote in our SSRIG Chair election. Candidate statements are included in the voting platform. You will receive a link to vote through OpaVote in the inbox of the email you used to subscribe to the old SSRIG listserv. If you encounter any problems or do…[Read more]

Hi all,

I hope you are well. Following our Denver 2023 hybrid meeting, the SSRIG is in need of a new chair or co-chairs. Here is a short breakdown of the time commitment to serve as the SSRIG chair:

The elected (co-)chair(s) will decide for themselves when, how often, and how long to meet based on their own schedules and ambitions. Past…[Read more]

Hello FMIG members! Here is a link to the new Film Music Theory Examples website that was mentioned in the SMT meeting:

https://maxsteinerinstitute.org/theoryexamples/index.php

If you have film music examples that you use in your theory classes, please help us by ADDING them to the website (which is just getting started and needs some more…[Read more]

Hello again!

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]

Hi all!

I’m writing with our interest group meeting agenda. This meeting will include a recruitment call for a Chair (or Co-Chairs!) to serve for Jan. 2024 – Jan. 2026 followed by three 10-minute lightning talks with discussion periods between each talk.We will offer a hybrid option for those not attending the conference in person:

This is the…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

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]

Music theorists working in film and multimedia: Do you have a wonderful idea for a paper that you are planning to submit to the Music and the Moving Image Conference this year? Are you working on a presentation in hopes to present at the North American Conference on Video Game Music? What about a multimedia related project you are thinking of…[Read more]

The SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group invites proposals for “work-in-progress” talks to be presented at our interest group meeting during the SMT annual meeting in Denver, CO, on Friday, November 10, 2023, at 7:30 PM. For these work-in-progress talks, we are seeking presentations on ongoing projects about music in film and multimedia. If you…[Read more]

Call for Presentations
All Ears: Music and Sound in and Beyond Disney Theme Parks
University of Central Florida, June 20–21, 2024
https://www.themeparkmusicandsound.org/

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]

Hello again!

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]

Greetings!

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]

Hi, FMIGers. Aaron Donaldson is a communications lecturer at Cal Poly Humboldt, a big fan of music and movies (among many other things), and an avid podcaster (https://player.fm/podcasts/aaron-donaldson). I’ve been a guest on a couple of his episodes, and he’s been a lot of fun to collaborate with. No renumeration, but I’ve liked including my…[Read more]