[AMS-announce] CONF: IMS Pre-conference, Launching of the Study Group Music and Media, Amsterdam, July 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

IMS Pre Conference: Launching of the Study Group MaM (Music and Media), under auspices of the International Musicological Society

Saturday 4th July – Sunday 5th July 2009: the Organ Park, Amsterdam

Music and Media will be launched as an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary IMS Study Group in a pre-conference preceding the joint IAML-IMS conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Study Group seeks to examine and explore diverse aspects relevant to the theme of ‘mediatizing music’.

The preliminary program is now on line:

www.wwclassicsonline.com/mam.html

Organizing Chair:

Prof. Dr. Emile Wennekes, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University
The Netherlands
e.wennekes at l.uu.nl

Background:

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 ‘remediation’ from LP to MP3 and 4, play? How has mediatization influenced performance practice? What do processes of mediatizing music mean in terms of ‘liveness’?