Dear Colleagues,

Please join us on Friday, July 18 from 8-10pm EST for a film music mixer, jointly hosted by the AMS Music and Media study group and the SMT Film and Multimedia interest group. At this meeting, we’ll be discussing the soundtracks to two wonderful Studio Ghibli coming of age films scored by the eminent Joe Hisaishi, Kiki’s Del…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group and AMS Music and Media Study Group are organizing a 2025 Summer Film Music Mixer and we’d like your help planning!

The plan is to meet a TBD evening in mid-July (in the past, this has typically been a later-evening start time in Eastern Standard time) for 1-2 hours and discuss a…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group (FMIG) is pleased to announce the two winners of the 2024 SMT FMIG Publication Awards:

Karen Cook, “8-Bit Affordances: Jun Chikuma’s Soundtrack to Faxanadu,” Music Theory Online 29/3 (2023)

Frank Lehman, “The ‘Indiana Jones’ series is back, along with the iconic music of John Willia…[Read more]

Dear All,

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

The AMS Music and Media Study Group and the SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group invites members of both societies to submit a proposal for a joint poster session to be held at the 2025 AMS/SMT Conference in Minneapolis.  The proposals may be on any topic related to the intersection of music and media.  Early career scholars, independent s…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

We had a wonderful meeting in Jacksonville! We hosted a session of lightning talks considering the last/next ten years of multimedia scholarship, including presentations by Laine Gruver, Adam Rizzo, Austin Wilson, and Clair Nguyen. The session also included two invited presentations by the group’s founders, Juan Chattah and Frank…[Read more]

Hi all! Some brief reminders and announcements follow.

Don’t forget that our FMIG meeting will be on Saturday (November 9) at 7:00 PM in City Terrace 9. Follow the link below for more information about the wonderful presentations in store.

https://www.conftool.org/smt2024/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=48

I’ll also mention here (an…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

We have two wonderful nominees to take over as the co-chairs for the Film and Multimedia IG for the next two years, Clair Nguyen and Chelsea Oden. In order to officially inaugurate them, we will have a confirmation vote using the Google form linked below. This will require you to log in to a Google account, but the ballot will not…[Read more]

Charity and I are excited to invite all of you to our upcoming Film and Multimedia Interest Group meeting at the SMT Annual Meeting in Jacksonville this November! The meeting is scheduled for 7:00 PM on Saturday, November 9.

For this year’s meetup, we will be hosting a session of lightning talks that consider the last ten years and the next ten y…[Read more]

Hello film and multimedia enthusiasts! Charity and I are looking forward to seeing all of you at our FMIG business meeting in Jacksonville this November (https://www.conftool.org/smt2024/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=48). We’ll have some exciting presentations to hear on Saturday night of the conference at 7:00 PM in City Terrace 9,…[Read more]

Music theorists working in film and multimedia: Our meeting in Jacksonville this fall will consider the last ten years and the next ten years of musical multimedia through a series of lightning talks. Do you have ideas on this subject? Could you provide some analytical insights to tell us your thoughts? Are you an advocate for a novel technique?…[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 are organizing a Virtual Movie Discussion Hangout for Friday, August 16, 2024, at 8:00 PM EDT.

We are preparing a “double feature” considering Shirley Walker’s score to Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) in coordin…[Read more]

CFP Film and Multimedia Interest Group: The Last Ten Years/The Next Ten Years

The Film and Multimedia Interest Group has been meeting for over a decade to promote and expand scholarship in the discipline. The political, socio-cultural, technological, and economic upheavals of the past ten years have caused dramatic changes to academic…[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 16, 2024, at 8:00 PM EDT. Our plan with this event is to discuss film music in a casual, informal setting.

We are preparing a “double feature” considering Shirley Walker’s score to [Read more]

Hello FMIG members! I wanted to announce here that I am running a conference on theme park music and sound that may be of interest to some of you. It will include a number of papers relevant to our interest group.

The conference All Ears: Music and Sound in and Beyond Disney Theme Parks will be held at the University of Central Florida, Rosen…[Read more]

This is a reminder that nominations are open until May 15 for the Film and Multimedia Interest Group Publication Award! Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter on the topic of film or multimedia music published within the previous three calendar years (2021, 2022, or 2023) is eligible. Anyone may nominate a publication, and self-nominations are…[Read more]

Dear members of the Film and Multimedia Interest Group,

Nominations are open for our interest group Publication Award! Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter on the topic of film or multimedia music published within the previous three calendar years (2021, 2022, or 2023) is eligible. Anyone may nominate a publication, and self-nominations are…[Read more]

Hi all, can anyone suggest important writings on Hans Zimmer’s scoring? I have a student wanting to do a final project on the Dune soundtrack and she’s interested in looking into additional scholarly resources. 🙂