*paper presented online via video playback
Tuesday 4th July 2023
From 09:30 (BST): Arrival
10:15: Welcome
10:30-12:00 Panel 1: Music and Place
Conor Power
“American in Spirit”: John Williams and the Legacy of John Philip Sousa*
Diana Díaz González
Trends in Spanish documentary film soundtracks: an overview of the genre, from the 1940s to Franco's developmentalism*
Maria Fuchs
Scoring 'Africa': Sampling Politics in the Production of Global Soundtracks*
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Panel 2: Television
David Etheridge
Musical Scrabble: Modular Composition in Barry Gray’s music for ‘Thunderbirds’.
Tim Summers and Will Farmer
Towards a Transformational Theory of Music in the Multimedia Franchise
Marc Brooks
The Mash-Up-Image in Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down
14:30-14:45 Break
14:45-16:15 Panel 3: Music Outside of the Film
Elizabeth Hunt
Moving Image Music in Concert: A History
Julin Lee
"Guided by the Instruments": Accentuating Musical Instruments in Behind-the-Score Featurettes of Contemporary Television Series
Lauren Berlin
A New Class of TV: Television Infrastructure, Educational Programming, and Omnibus (1952-61)*
16:15-16:30 Break
16:30-18:00 Panel 4: Violence
Jerónimo Sarmiento
Cinematic Polyphony in Lucrecia Martel’s Cinema: The Musicality of Narrative Film in The Headless Woman*
Ana Djordjevic
“Attack him with music!” – Music as a Weapon in Post-Yugoslav War Films*
James Heazlewood-Dale and John MacDonald
The Dance of Combat: Drum Fills, Boss Fights, and The Evolution of Aggressive Game Audio*
Evening: Conference dinner
Wednesday 5th July 2023
09:30-11:00 Panel 5: Silence
Jasmine Croll
Hostile Silences, Power, and Liminality*
Angela English
Voices and Silence: audience engagement with silent fragmented archive film.
Jacob Browne
The “Caligari Imperative:” Weimar Silent Film and the Uncanny Voices of Text
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Panel 6: Social & New Media
Júlia Durand and Toby Huelin
“Another Conspiracy About a Royalty-Free Song”: Library Music in Contemporary Political Discourse*
Inka-Maria Nyman
Opera on extra stage: Consuming opera on Instagram
Carolin Geyer
Understanding the use of music in the context of social media short videos*
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: NICK REYLAND - Ostentatious TV Scoring
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:30 Panel 7: Video Games
James McGlynn
The Growing Potential Videographic Criticism in Film Music Studies, Ludomusicology, and Beyond*
Sophia Wetzel
Musical Mind Games: Genre as Mental Illness in the Psychonauts Series*
Peter Adams
“You’re a Man of Few Words, Aren’t You?”: Silent Modalities and the (Absent) Voice in Contemporary Video Games
Thursday 6th July 2023
09:30-11:00 Panel 8: Pre- & Post-Existing Music
David Ireland
What a wonderful world? Charting the evolution of incongruent post-existing film music.
Emilio Audissino
Swan Lake and Dracula: From the 1931 Tod Browning Film to the 1979 John Badham Remake.*
Marie Bennett
‘“Bohemian Rhapsody” will never be that song’: How Wayne’s World Revitalized the Career of Queen in the United States
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Panel 9: Approaches to Film Music
Ben Winters
World-building and Symphonic Discourse in Iñárritu’s Birdman (2014)
Jacques Dupuis
Inverting the Acousmetre
Miaotong Yuan
Soundscape in Films: Spatial Construction, Aural Narrative, and Audience Identification
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Panel 10: Fantasy
Matt Lawson
Tolkien before Jackson: The Music of the Animated Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films
Daniel White
Cinematic Worldbuilding and Howard Shore’s Big Shoes: Amazon’s Rings of Power and the Musical Extension of an Existing Franchise
Hunter Wallace
Cinematic Layering in HBO's Game of Thrones*
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:00 Panel 11: Documentary
Emin Bülbül
Ecology Underscored: Sonic Agency, Multispecies Soundtrack, and Geographies of Solitude*
Sanna Qvick
Soundtrack as a creator of the audience’s relationship to nature in the film Ailo
17:00-17:30 Closing Remarks