The seventeenth meeting of the ‘Music and Media’ study group of the International Musicological Society will take place in-person on June 11-12 2026 in the School of Music at University College Dublin. The theme of this year’s conference is “Directions and Aesthetics of the Digital Era” and will feature a keynote address hosted at the Irish Film Institute.

Since 2000 and the increasing dominance of digital film, music for screen media has experienced substantial changes. With the waning of the “classical” scoring style, the popularisation of composition on Digital Audio Workstations, the arrival of Dolby Atmos, the increasing prioritisation of sound over score, and the rise of streaming services, shifts in music and sound have distinguished digital-era aesthetics from those of the twentieth century. This conference invites proposals that consider these aesthetics, the directions of arising trends, or precursors foreshadowing contemporary practices. Papers may consider, but are not limited to, the following:

● Divergent trends in the treatment of music and sound in screen media since the dawn of the digital era

● The blurred lines between sound design and score

● The changing role of the composer, and the increasing influence of music supervisors, sound editors, sound mixers

● The influence of film score companies (such as Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions) on the direction of audio aesthetics

● Screen media case studies from around the globe representative of recent phenomena, or of pre-digital media that predicts future sonic aesthetics

● The place and influence of AI on contemporary practice and aesthetics

We seek proposals for 20-minute papers or three-paper panels from scholars of music and sound in screen media, graduate students, and industry practitioners. All papers will be 20 minutes in length, followed by 10 minutes of discussion.

Abstracts for all individual papers should not exceed 250 words. In the case of themed panel sessions, there should be an abstract for the whole session (maximum 250 words) plus an abstract for each individual speaker (maximum 150 words each), and should be submitted as a single document. Abstracts should include:

● A title for the paper and/or session

● The name, contact details and affiliation (where applicable) of the speaker(s) and, in the case of themed panel sessions and round-table sessions, the panel convener

● Brief biography of the speaker(s) (maximum 100 words per speaker)

Proposals should be sent, as a PDF, to Conor Power at conor.power1[at]ucd.ie by December 5 2025.

The Organizing Committee for the conference is:

● Conor Power (University College Dublin), Conference Chair

● Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University), MaM Chair

● Laura Anderson (University College Dublin)

● Anika Babel (Northumbria University)

● Ciaran Crilly (University College Dublin)

● Julin Lee (Hochschule für Musik und Theater München)

The Programme Committee for the conference is:

● Chloé Huvet (Université Évry Paris-Saclay/IUF)

● Julin Lee (Hochschule für Musik und Theater München)

● James Denis McGlynn (Trinity College Dublin)

● Jessica Shine (Munster Technological University)

● Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University)

We would like to bring to your attention to the joint annual conference of the IMS Study Group “Music and Media” and the Kieler Gesellschaft für Filmmusikforschung, “Music, Media, and Narrative in the Streaming Age,” which will be held in hybrid form in Munich (Germany) from June 6 to 7, 2024. The conference is open to the public, free of charge for both in-person and online participation, however registration is required. Visit https://musicmedianarrative.de for all details.

The Department of Music and Art at Linnæus University Växjö, Sweden, invites applications for one full PhD position (4 years) in musicology within the Graduate School The Future of Democracy: Cultural Analyses of Illiberal Populism in Times of Crises (FUDEM). The successful applicant will be affiliated at the Linnæus University research center for Intermediality and Multimodality (IMS) as well. Deadline for applications is August 31.

Find out more about the job here:

https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/work-at-the-university/?rmpage=job&rmjob=7341&rmlang=UK

If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact me:

Martin Knust (martin.knust@lnu.se)

The 14th meeting of the Music and Media Studygroup (MaM) under the auspices of the International Musicological Society met this past week in Paris, France. An enriching series of papers was presented by researchers from ten countries. Sincere thanks to the organisers from the Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay, who did an excellent job in hosting us. My personal thanks to all those who presented their papers as well as the two keynote speakers: Prof. James Deaville (Carleton University, Ottawa) and Prof. Dominique Nasta (ULB, Brussels). Already looking forward to the 15th annual MaM event which will take place at the Hochschule für Musik und Musiktheater in Munich, from 6 to 8 June, 2024. The conference will be jointly organized with Kieler Gesellschaft für Filmmusikforschung. An open call for papers will be published this coming fall. The overarching theme will be Music and Media in the Streaming Age.

Emile Wennekes

Nous sommes heureux de vous transmettre le programme du prochain colloque MaM auquel vous participez et qui aura lieu à Evry et à Paris du 19 au 21 juin 2023.

Vous pouvez en prendre connaissance ici :

https://mamxiv.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/3

(Il est a priori presque définitif, mais sera finalisé prochainement pour la version papier et .pdf).

Dear all,

We are pleased to send you the programme for the next MaM conference, which will take place in Evry and Paris from 19 to 21 June 2023.

You can read it here :

https://mamxiv.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/3

(The programme is almost definitive, but the paper and .pdf versions will be finalised shortly).

The Music and Media Study Group meeting of 2022 coincided with the quinquennial IMS conference, which took place in August in Athens, Greece. In the multipurpose room of the impressive concert hall building Μέγαρον Μουσικής Αθηνών, MaM hosted its 13^th conference as a hybrid meeting throughout the morning of 23 August. Combining in-person and on-line presentations was the go-to, not only due to time zone differences, but also because Greece was still considered a Covid danger zone according to diverse foreign organizations.

Where MaM normally convenes multiple day, annual conferences, we now opted within the possibilities of the overall IMS conference for a smaller roundtable session, discussing the topic of Music in Comedy Cinema. This time, as well, no international open call for papers was published, but all invited speakers are involved in the upcoming Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema, edited by Emilio Audissino and Emile Wennekes.

Dr. Chloé Huvet (Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay, France) opened the panel with her live talk ‘From E.T. to Tintin: John Williams’ Humorous Touches in Non-Comedy Films’. Dr. Emilio Audissino (Linnaeus University, Sweden) continued on the Williams theme with his on-line presentation ‘John Williams, from Comic to Humour: The pre-Star Wars Period’. Next up was Dr. Michael Baumgartner (Cleveland State University, Cleveland, USA) who gave an on-line, and partly pre-recorded presentation entitled ‘Self-Reflexive Music and the Comic Incongruity in the Golden Age of French Comedies’. Prof. Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) then brought the overarching topic ‘(Under)scoring Laughs: Theoretical ingredients for a Handbook Introduction’ to the table, live from the Athens Concert Hall. Prof. James Deaville (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) closed the line-up of Handbook contributors with the online presentation ‘Taking Mancini’s Comedy Scores Seriously’.

The papers were amply discussed, after which the round table meeting was closed by unveiling location and topic of the 2023 annual MaM meeting.

MaM’s 14^th annual conference will be hosted by Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay, and will take place in Paris (France) on 19-21 June, 2023. The topic will be Music and Sound in Francophone Audiovisual Media.

Prof. dr. Emile Wennekes, chair of the Study Group MaM

Music and Sound in Francophone Audiovisual Media

14^th Annual Meeting of the Study Group MaM (Music and Media)

The Music and Media (MaM) Study Group of the International Musicological Society (IMS) invites proposals for its 14^th annual international conference. The meeting will be hosted by Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay, and is scheduled to take place on 19-21 June, 2023.

We welcome proposals that examine the theoretical and practical implications of Francophone audiovisual media. ‘Media’ here covers both classic audiovisual media (cinema, television – series, shows, advertisements, etc.) and new media (internet, streaming, video and audio platforms, social networks [Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook…]). We therefore encourage scholarship from a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches—musicology, film studies, ludomusicology, composition, etc.

Conference topics may include, but are not limited to:

1) Music, sound and genre in French fiction (film, television), for example:

·       extreme French cinema (Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury, Claire Denis, Xavier Gens, Pascal Laugier…), fantasy and horror (Julia Ducourneau, Coralie Fargeat…)

·       dramas and thrillers (Henri-Georges Clouzot, Henri Verneuil, René Clément, Xavier Legrand, Dominik Moll, Cédric Jimenez, Xavier Giannoli, Xavier Dolan…)

·       musical films, musicals and comedies (Xavier Dolan, Jean-Marc Vallée, Christophe Honoré, Leos Carax, Alain Resnais, Michel Hazanavicius…)…

2) Music and sound in the French documentary film:

·       direct cinema or “cinéma vérité” (Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Louis Malle, Peter Wintonick, Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault…)

·       experimental documentaries and audiovisual essays (François Bel and Gérard Vienne, Frédéric Dallaire…)

·       animal documentaries (Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou, Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats…)

·       intimate documentaries (Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman…)

·       committed social cinema (Denys Arcand, Raymond Depardon, Alice Diop, Nicolas Philibert, Sébastien Lifshitz, Thierry Michel, Dieudo Hamadi, Hassen Ferhani, Gilles Perret, Jean-Gabriel Périot…)…

3) New Audiovisual Waves (Belgium, France and Overseas, Quebec, Maghreb countries, West Africa, Gulf of Guinea, South Africa…)

4) Approach and dissemination of music and sound in new French-language media

5) Sound and adaptation in foreign languages (questions of translation, dubbing and subtitling)

Invited keynote speakers are Dominique Nasta (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) and James Deaville (Carleton University, Canada).

Deadline for proposals: 31 January, 2023.

Each speaker will have 20 minutes for the paper (in French or English) plus 10 minutes for discussion.

Please include as PDF or Word file: an abstract of no more than 250 words, a biographical note of no more than 150 words, contact details including academic affiliation, if applicable. Proposals should be for papers that have not been previously presented or published. Please send proposals to: chloe.huvet@univ-evry.fr.

The Program Committee includes Chloé Huvet and Grégoire Tosser (Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay), Jérémy Michot (Université de Perpignan Via Domitia) and Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University; Chair MaM).

Appel à communications

Musique et son dans les médias audiovisuels francophones

14e Congrès annuel du groupe de recherche MaM (Music and Media)

Le groupe de recherche Music and Media (MaM) de l’International Musicological Society (IMS) lance un appel à propositions pour son 14e congrès annuel international. Le colloque se tiendra à l’Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay du 19 au 21 juin 2023.

Nous accueillons les propositions dans lesquelles une réflexion s’articule autour des implications théoriques et pratiques des médias audiovisuels francophones. Le terme « média » recouvre ici les médias audiovisuels classiques (cinéma, télévision – séries, émissions, publicités…) et les nouveaux médias (internet, plateformes streaming, vidéo et audio, réseaux sociaux [Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook…]). Nous encourageons par conséquent les travaux issus d’un large éventail d’approches interdisciplinaires – musicologie, études cinématographiques, ludomusicologie, composition, etc.

Axes proposés (non exhaustifs) :

1) Musique, son et genre dans la fiction francophone (cinéma, télévision) :

·       Cinéma français extrême (Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury, Claire Denis, Xavier Gens, Pascal Laugier…), fantastique et horreur (Julia Ducourneau, Coralie Fargeat…) ;

·       Drames et thrillers (Henri-Georges Clouzot, Henri Verneuil, René Clément, Xavier Legrand, Dominik Moll, Cédric Jimenez, Xavier Giannoli, Xavier Dolan…) ;

·       Films musicaux, comédies musicales et comédies (Xavier Dolan, Jean-Marc Vallée, Christophe Honoré, Leos Carax, Alain Resnais, Michel Hazanavicius…).

2) Musique et son dans le film documentaire francophone :

·       Cinéma direct ou « cinéma vérité » (Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Louis Malle, Peter Wintonick, Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault…) ;

·       Documentaires expérimentaux et essais audiovisuels (François Bel et Gérard Vienne, Frédéric Dallaire…) ;

·       Documentaires animaliers (Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou, Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats…) ;

·       Documentaires intimistes (Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman…) ;

·       Cinéma social engagé (Denys Arcand, Raymond Depardon, Alice Diop, Nicolas Philibert, Sébastien Lifshitz, Thierry Michel, Dieudo Hamadi, Hassen Ferhani, Gilles Perret, Jean-Gabriel Périot…).

3) Nouvelles Vagues audiovisuelles (Belgique, France et Outre-mer, Québec, pays du Maghreb, Afrique de l’Ouest, golfe de Guinée, Afrique du Sud…)

4) Approche et diffusion de la musique et du son dans les nouveaux médias francophones

5) Son et adaptation en langues étrangères (questions de la traduction, du doublage et du sous-titrage).

Deux conférences plénières seront assurées par Dominique Nasta (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique) et James Deaville (Carleton University, Canada).

Date limite des propositions : 31 janvier 2023.

Chaque communication (en français ou en anglais) aura une durée de 20 minutes et sera suivie de 10 minutes de discussion.

Les résumés de communication (250 mots maximum) devront être envoyés en format PDF ou Word à chloe.huvet@univ-evry.fr. Merci de joindre à votre proposition une notice biographique de 150 mots maximum et de mentionner votre affiliation universitaire.

Le comité scientifique et organisateur est composé de Chloé Huvet et Grégoire Tosser  (Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay), Jérémy Michot (Université de Perpignan Via Domitia) et Emile Wennekes (Université d’Utrecht ; président MaM).

Due to Covid-19, the 12^th annual meeting of the Music and Media Study Group (MaM) had to be postponed last year. With no end of the pandemic in sight, we decided to schedule the conference of 2021 from the start as a virtual meeting, taking place on June 10-11. The meeting was hosted from two venues: Cleveland State University and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland. Theme of the meeting was Pre-existing Music in Screen-Media: Problems, Questions, Challenges.

A new open Call for Papers was widely distributed. Accepted papers from the previous year were automatically incorporated in the new program. We welcomed proposals that examined the theoretical and practical implications of pre-existing music in a variety of screen media—with special emphasis on cinema, music videos, and digital technologies.

The two day conference with 24 speakers in total was scheduled in six panels: ‘Redefining the Use of Pre-Existing Music through Bricolage’, ‘Auteur Cinema and Opera’, ‘Hollywood, European Mainstream, and Pre-Existing Music’, ‘Prototypical Film Genres and Pre-Existing Music’, ‘Incongruency, Isomorphism, and Rearrangement’, and ‘Advertising, Branding, Franchising’.

The participants were offered two keynote presentations, streamed from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The first was given by dr. James Buhler (University of Texas at Austin) and entitled ‘Composing for the Films in the Age of Digital Media’. The second key note talk by dr. Carol Vernallis (Stanford University) entitled ’Music Video and the Multisensory’ was streamed at a later moment due to technical challenges. 

The program conference committee included both keynote speakers, as well as Michael Baumgartner (Cleveland State University & co-organizer), Ewelina Boczkowska (Youngstown State University & co-organizer), Jason Hanley (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & co-organizer), Chloé Huvet (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon), Tobias Pontara (Gothenburg University), and Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University & co-organizer).

The study group meeting of 2022 will coincide with the quinquennial IMS conference, which will take place in August in Athens, Greece. https://pcoconvin.eventsair.com/ims22/

We will host a round table on the topic of Music in Comedy Cinema. The papers presented here will form parts of the upcoming Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema, edited by Emilio Audissino and Emile Wennekes. Invited speakers include Mervyn Cooke, James Deaville, members of last year’s program committee (Chloé Huvet, Ewelina Boczkowska, Michael Baumgartner), as well as the two editors of the Handbook.

Prof. Emile Wennekes, Chair of MaM

e.wennekes@uu.nl

International Musicological Society

12th Meeting of the IMS Study Group “Music and Media”

Hosted by Cleveland State University, School of Music, in conjunction with The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

PLEASE REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE:

class.csuohio.edu/music/imsregistration

Pre-Existing Music in Screen Media: Problems, Questions, Challenges

NB: Online. All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (United States East Coast).

Thursday, 10 June 2021

9:00–9:15 AM* Opening Remarks (CSU)

Professor Allyson L. Robichaud, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, CSU

Professor Emile Wennekes, Utrecht University, Chair of the Music and Media Study Group of the International Musicological Society

9:15–10:45 AM Panel 1: Redefining the Use of Pre-Existing Music through Bricolage (CSU)

Giorgio Biancorosso: “The Filmmaker as Music Bricoleur”

TJ Laws-Nicola: “Ironic Agency: Helga Pataki’s Dream Empowerment in What’s Opera, Arnold?”

Robynn Stilwell: “Creating Anew: The Mash-Up as Performance, Collaboration, Independent Work”

Chair: Emile Wennekes

11:00 AM–12:30 PM Panel 2: Auteur Cinema and Opera (CSU)

Justin Mueller: “The Remediated Soundscape of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s Parsifal”

Scott Murphy: “Reappropriation Enlists Contingency: A Rogue Note in Melancholia”

Pascal Rudolph: “The Musical Idea Working Group: Production vs. Reception of Pre-existing Music”

Chair: Tobias Pontara

12:30–1:30 PM Break for Refreshments

1:30–2:30 PM Keynote Address I (R&HoF)

James Buhler: “Composing for the Films in the Age of Digital Media”

Chair: Jason Hanley

3:00–4:30 PM Panel 3: Hollywood, European Mainstream, and Pre-Existing Music (CSU)

Gillian Anderson: “Pre-existing Music in Way Down East (Griffith, 1920) and Ben Hur (Niblo, 1926)”

Richard Anatone: “Pre-Existing Music as Leitmotif in Groundhog Day: Breaking the Cycle of the Endless Rondo through Transformative Variation”

Kate McQuiston: “Half Past Duke: Gondry’s Jazz Clock in Mood Indigo“

Chair: Mark Durrand

Friday, 11 June 2021

8:50–9:00 AM Opening Remarks (CSU)

Professor Heather Russell, Director of School of Music, CSU

9:00–10:30 AM Panel 4: Prototypical Film Genres and Pre-Existing Music (CSU)

Julin Lee: “Staging a Synthetic Western: Instrumental Covers of Pre-Existing Music in HBO’s Westworld: The Maze (2016)”

Michiel Kamp: “Drive, Synthwave, and the Audiovisual Imaginaries of Neo(n)-Noir”

Roberto Calabretto: “The Melodramatic Imagination of Visconti’s Cinema”

Chair: Rebecca Fülöp

10:45 AM–12:15 PM Panel 5: Incongruency, Isomorphism, and Rearrangement (CSU)

David Ireland: “What a Wonderful World? Investigating the Evolution and Effect of Incongruent Post-Existing Film Music”

Dominique Nasta and Thomas Van Deursen: “Structural Isomorphism and Double-Bind Receptivity: The Affective Nexus of Classical and Popular Music Quotes in Five Contemporary Films”

James Mc Glynn: “Rearrangement of Pre-existing Music in the Film Score: Narratological Possibilities, Deliberate Ambiguities and Questions of ‘Originality’”

Chair: Chloé Huvet

12:15–1:15 PM Break for Refreshments

1:15–2:15 PM Keynote Address II (R&RHoF)

Carol Vernallis: “Music Video and the Multisensory”

Chair: Michael Baumgartner

2:45–4:15 PM Panel 6: Advertising, Branding, Franchising (CSU)

Stefan Greenfield-Casas: “From the Screen (to the Screen) to the Concert Hall: Musical Adaptation and Worldbuilding in the Kingdom Hearts Series”

Matthew Tchepikova-Treon: “The Harder They Come: A Mercantile History of a Pulp Exploitation Musical”

James Deaville: “Covering their Tracks: The Use of Pre-Existing Music in Film Trailers”

Chair: Ewelina Boczkowska

4:15–4:45 Wrap-Up Session (CSU)