Sound and Music SIG SCMS

Your grad rep here with some self promotion-- I've co-organized this conference at UC Berkeley 3/7-3/8- free and open to public-- possibly of interest to some in this community! algorithmicmusicmethods.com

Rob King will moderate the event. There will be a brief presentation, discussion between the author and moderator, and then time for discussion. The event will be held on Zoom here: rowan.zoom.us/j/6087666070?p…

(Rutgers, 2025). Frank’s book explores how these largely neglected radio dramas were counterparts to, influences on, or spin-offs from the noir films and challenge conventional understandings of this film genre.

From the Classic Hollywood SIG: This Friday (2/27) at 3pm EST, we are excited to be hosting a virtual event that we think might be of interest to your SIG’s membership. Frank Krutnik will be discussing his new book, Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers: Radio and Film Noir

CFP for IMR week (end of March) on new forms of image-sound relations (impossible auralities) in contemporary cinemas! Abstracts due March 16.

Each speaker will talk for approximately ten minutes, and there will be time for Q&A (the event will last between 1.5 and 2 hours). Please support this amazing group of graduate students!

Lauren Berlin, “American Identity and the Postwar Television Variety Show, 1948–1963” Jay Rauch, “Archival Ecologies: Performing Preservation in Pittsburgh’s Improv Scenes” Ravi Krishnaswami, “From ProTools to Python: AI Music as the New Functional Music”

TODAY! Tuesday, February 17th, at 3pm Pacific Standard Time on Zoom, we're hosting a round of lightning talks by some of our graduate students who are preparing for dissertation defenses in the coming months. Please join us to hear about their research and to help them prepare!

Thanks for being part of our community, and keep an eye out for information about an informal gathering at the conference along with those sponsored panels. Have a wonderful holiday season!

Additionally, we have created a Discord channel where folks are welcome to share CFPs, news, and help organize panels: discord.gg/ejSunWNA.

For those who weren't able to attend the annual meeting at the virtual symposium, here is a link to the virtual meeting minutes: docs.google.com/document/d/1Tw…

If you’re a graduate student who planned to apply but needed some extra time, we encourage you to submit your work! If you already submitted, thank you. The committee looks forward to reviewing your work.

Submissions should be sent to gorbmanaward@gmail.com. More information can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

The Sound + Music SIG is extending the deadline for the 2025 Claudia Gorbman Graduate Student Writing Award to Aug 15th. This award recognizes outstanding scholarship by a grad student in sound/music media, and the winning essay is published in Music, Sound, and the Moving Image.

Thank you to the other nominees, Arzu Karaduman and Seth Mulliken, for their time and commitment to the SIG, and thanks to everyone who voted. It's been my pleasure to serve in this position these last 3 years. I'm excited to see from afar what the SIG will do in the future.

From Landon: I'm happy to share that Amy Skjerseth has been elected to three-year term as Co-Chair of the Sound and Music Scholarly Interest Group. She'll be beginning her service alongside Co-Chair Phoebe Macrossan and Graduate Representative Ravi Krishnaswami. Congrats, Amy!