Dear scholars of post-1945 music,

Please consider submitting your published articles or book chapters for consideration for the SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award.

Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter published between January 2021 and December 2023 on analysis of post-1945 music within modernist, experimental,…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

Please join me in welcoming and congratulating our new Co-Chairs for the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group, Noah Kahrs and Gui Hwan Lee! They have passed the confirmation vote and will be taking over day-to-day operations in the coming weeks, so feel free to reach out to them if you have any questions or ideas.

It has been a…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

It has now been a couple months since our meeting in Denver. It was wonderful to see everyone and enjoy some thought-provoking scholarship presented by Kate Mancey, Noah Kahrs, and Jennifer Iverson. Thanks to all of those who presented and all those who attended!

We also announced the two winners of the Post-1945 Music Analysis…[Read more]

Hi, everyone. For the past few years I’ve been working intermittently on the music of Danish electroacoustic pioneer Else Marie Pade (1924-2016), who in 1944 at the age of 19 was captured by the Gestapo and imprisoned for 8 months because of her participation in an all-female resistance group. Specifically, my research has focused on a couple of…[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 all!

This serves as the final reminder that our upcoming Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group meeting is scheduled for 12:30 PM on Friday, November 10, in the “Silver” meeting room. We will be hosting an exciting session on electronic and synthesized sound. Jennifer Iverson will give a featured talk on the topic of her current book pro…[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 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]

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]