Music and the Moving Image III

Music and the Moving Image III
Conference at NYU, May 30 – June 1, 2008
Call for papers

The third annual conference, Music and the Moving Image, encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between music and the entire universe of moving images (film, television, computer, video games, and interactive performance) through paper presentations, roundtables, and plenary sessions. This year live performance/screenings will be a featured part of the evening program. Streaming video versions of every presentation will be available only at NYU from May 30 – June 3, 2008.
Accepted papers will be considered for inclusion in the new peer-reviewed online journal Music and the Moving Image: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/mmisub.html

The Program Committee includes Macquarie Univ. faculty Rebecca Coyle (Reel Tracks: Australian Feature Film Music and Cultural Identities); NYU artist faculty Ira Newborn (The Naked Gun); NYU faculty Robert Rowe (Machine Musicianship); Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison faculty Jeff Smith (The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music); and coeditors of Music and the Moving Image, Gillian B. Anderson (Haexan; Pandora’s Box; Music for Silent Film 1892-1929: A Guide); and NYU faculty, Ron Sadoff (The Moon and the Son).

For more detailed information about last year’s conference, go to: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/scoring/conference

The conference will run in conjunction with the NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop in Memory of Buddy Baker (May 16-23, 2008) and the NYU Song Writing Workshop [ May 27-30 ]: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/scoring/ascap

Abstracts or synopses of papers (250 words) should be submitted to Dr. Ron Sadoff, chair of the program committee, by no later than Jan. 14, 2008. E-Mail Ron Sadoff for more information.

Ron Sadoff
New York University
35 West 4th St
Rm 777H
New York, NY, 10012

Conference fee (May 30 – June 1): $135.00, Students: $65.00, Housing Available.

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