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]

Following our formal PMIG session we will have an opportunity for an informal breakout discussion in Governer’s Square 10 regarding pop “theory” papers and conference options. Brad Osborn and Alyssa Barna will speak briefly about this at the end of our session, so this is a time and place to continue that conversation. We have the space on Friday…[Read more]

We are seeking nominations for the following officer positions for SMT’s Popular Music Interest Group. Self nominations are encouraged! Please email all nominations to pmigwebmaster@gmail.com. Nominations will close at 5:00 pm EST on Nov. 26, 2023.

CHAIR: The Chair is responsible for the management of the Interest Group, including submitting re…[Read more]

Hi all!

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]

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 t…[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]

We are excited to have two amazingly wonderful scholars and pedagogues share their insights on popular music pedagogy at our session in Denver. Jennifer Snodgrass and Cora Palfy will offer their perspectives on backwards design in music theory curriculum. A schedule for our session and details on their presentations are below.

SMT PMIG, Friday…[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]

One item on the business meeting agenda for the PMIG meeting in Denver this year will be updating the group’s bylaws. We would like to begin this process by soliciting changes from group members in advance of the meeting.

The current bylaws are available to view and download from Google Drive. Interested parties should access this document,…[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]

Nominations are officially open for the Popular Music Interest Group’s Outstanding Publication Award and the Adam Krims Award—click on these links to nominate. I encourage you to reflect on recent scholarship you’ve read that has positively impacted you. Self-nominations are especially encouraged! Note that to be eligible for an award, the public…[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]

The Society for Music Theory’s Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and Mathematics of Music Interest Group will hold a joint virtual meetup on Tuesday, August 1st at 2:00 pm EDT. The program will consist of the following three presentations:

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

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