[AMS-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: New IMS Study Group, Music and Media

[Announcements for the AMS]

International Musicological Society: Launching of a new Study Group: Music and Media (MaM) 

Music plays an important role in media, both in old and certainly in new media: commercials, games, films, ring tones and the like. The other way around, media play an increasing role in music. They have changed the compositional process and characteristics of style; media severely influences performances, composing techniques, the way of recording and visualizing music. What are the theoretical and philosophical consequences of mediatized music? What are the economics behind these processes of mediatization? What role does the process of ‘remidiation’(Bolter & Grusin, 2000), from LP to MP3 and 4, play? How has mediatization influenced performance practice, what was the ‘phonograph effect?’ (Katz, 1999). What do processes of mediatizing music mean in terms of ‘liveness’ (Auslander, 1999), ‘animated liveness’ (Wennekes, 2008) and/or ‘immersion’ (Grau, 2003)?   

These are some of the themes central to the new IMS study group Music and Media (MaM), which will be chaired by Emile Wennekes, chair professor of Musicology at Utrecht University. On July 4 and 5, 2009, MaM will be launched at a two day (pre) IMS conference in Amsterdam. A relevant call for papers will be published later this year. 

For more information: Prof. Dr. Emile Wennekes, Utrecht University. Emile.wennekes at let.uu.nl; +31 30 2536320 or +31 6 10889657.

-Auslander, Philip, Liveness: Performance in a mediatized culture. (New York: Routledge, 1999).

-Bolter, Jay David & Grusin, Richard, Remediating: Understanding New Media (Cambridge: MIT Press 2000).

-Grau, Oliver, Virtual art: From Illusion to Immersion. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003)

-Katz, Mark, The Phonograph Effect: The Influence of Recording on Listener, Performer, Composer, 1900-1940. PhD Thesis University of Michigan, 1999.

-Wennekes, Emile, ‘Brief encounters of a third kind: First Life live concerts in Second Life concert venues’. In: Thea Brejzek, Wolfgang Greisenegger and Lawrence Wallen (eds.), Monitoring Scenography 2: Space and Truth / Raum und Wahrheit. Institute for Design and Technology (idt) Zurich: Zurich University of the Arts, October 2009.