Music and the Moving Image Conference XVI

Conference at NYU Steinhardt: Friday May 29th – Sunday May 31st, 2020.

The annual Music and the Moving Image Conference encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between the entire universe of moving images (film, television, video games, iPhone, computer, and live performances) and that of music and sound through paper presentations. We encourage submissions from multidisciplinary teams that have been pooling their knowledge to solve problems or come up with a new perspective regarding music and moving images.

The Keynote Speaker is Blake Neely (Composer for the DC Universe: The Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, DC Legends of Tomorrow).

Abstracts or synopses of papers (250 words or fewer) should be submitted by no later than December 15, 2019. You can submit via Jotform.

The MaMI program committee includes Daniel Goldmark — Case Western Reserve University (Tunes for ‘Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon; California, 2005, Korngold and His World; Princeton, 2019), Jessica Shine — Cork Institute of Technology (‘Compilation Score and Transdiegetic Music: How Music Helps Give Voice to the Voiceless’; McFarland, 2018, “One Minute of Everything at Once”: How Music Shapes the World of BBC’s Peaky Blinders (2013)’. Musicology Research, 2017), Kate Galloway — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (“Soundwalking and the Aurality of Stardew Valley: An Ethnography of Listening to and Interacting with Environmental Game Audio;” Routledge, 2019, “Remixing the Environment: Climate Change, Rhythm Science, and DJ Spooky’s Digging in the Landscapes;” Oxford, 2019.), John Covach — Eastman School of Music (What’s That Sound? An Introduction to Rock and Its History, 5th edition (Norton, 2018); The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones (Cambridge University Press, 2019)) and co-editors of Music and the Moving Image, Gillian B. Anderson — orchestral conductor (Rosita at the Venice Film Festival, Composing for the Cinema, Music for Silent Film 1892-1929: A Guide); and Assoc. Professor, Director & Chair, Ron Sadoff — New York University (The Moon and the Son / Co-editor of Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound).

This year’s conference will run for three days, from Friday May 29 – Sunday, May 31, with sessions until Sunday evening. The conference will run prior to the NYU Film Scoring Workshop in Memory of Buddy Baker (June 1–13, 2020).

E-mail [email protected] for more information.