[Noah Kahrs]

The email with SMT information (such as the password) should have given you a link to sign up for this year’s Slack, where it says “To join, click this link, enter an email address, and choose a password.”

[Noah Kahrs]

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 course it’s quite early to be worrying about the specific format of an informal meeting a year and a half from now.

[Noah Kahrs]

I think it’s worth asking how many responses you had to the survey last year—if 20% of the average of the last two meetings works out to be more people than responded, that would presumably cause some problems.

[Noah Kahrs]

Hi all,

Even if the new members aren’t in academic music theory, it might be nice to keep the platform as a way of just having our research have a bit wider of a reach. That way our research might be read by a few more people.

Of course, there’s a risk of a heavy moderation burden if the group ever stops being quiet. My suggestion would be to not abolish the group, but only allow a few people to submit posts—either by manual post approval, or by simply disabling posting for all but a few people (maybe make all the SMT members “moderators”). This way it could continue serving the way it is now (exclusively as an announcement board, i.e. for journal articles) while remaining visible to non-specialists who might be interested.

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