A new RMA study group for scholars and researchers of sound on screen has been created. The study group builds on the legacies of the Sound on Screen conferences run by colleagues at Oxford Brookes University (2020–2024), the British Audiovisual Research Network (est. 2014) and its associated virtual colloquium series (2020–2022), and the series of Film Music conferences run by the University of Leeds (2005–2016).

The Sound on Screen IV conference in June 2025 will join the activities of the new RMA Sound on Screen Study Group to the work of Drs Jan Butler, James Cateridge, Matt Lawson and Lindsay Steenberg at Oxford Brookes University, who established the Sound on Screen conferences in 2020. For more information see the conference webpage.

Korngold in America: Music, Myth and Hollywood, by Dr Ben Winters (Open University) has been published by Oxford University Press. Please recommend purchase to your institutional library as appropriate.

The OUP website description of the book reads: Korngold in America offers new ways of listening to the film scores and post-Hollywood concert works of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897—1957), a Viennese-raised Austro-Hungarian composer who left Europe for Hollywood in the mid-1930s to write for Warner Bros. It reassesses Korngold's place in twentieth-century music historiography and dismantles many of the myths that have obscured a proper understanding of his work.

Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, Korngold in America reveals Korngold's commercial and artistic relationships with studio processes and staff, highlights aspects of his compositional practice, and traces the way in which he adapted his skills as a musical dramatist and experienced opera composer to the demands of film. The book presents a more complete picture of Korngold's artistry than has hitherto been possible, showing both the important role played by his music in the Hollywood films of which it is a part and the importance in turn of Hollywood films for his compositional identity. In so doing, it challenges assumptions about the relationship between Korngold's film scores and his works for the concert hall and opera house in ways that draw attention to the significance of Hollywood for histories of twentieth-century music.

Singing Out: The Musical Voice in Audiovisual Media, edited by Dr Catherine Haworth (University of Huddersfield) and Dr Beth Carroll (University of Southampton) has been published by Edinburgh University Press as part of their 'Music and the Moving Image' series. Please recommend purchase to your institutional library as appropriate.

The EUP website description of the book reads: Singing Out explores a broad range of singing voices and sung moments, from lavish film musical sequences, television and videogames, through to online platforms, advertising, and multimedia installation work. It illustrates the diverse ways in which the singing voice is produced and understood in different media across international contexts, taking into consideration issues such as corporeal form, age, race, reception, and gender.

The act of singing emphasises issues of identity, technology, and the identifying markers of the voice itself, heightening communication, acting as an aid to memory, and inviting judgement. Singing demarcates and breaks down textual and conceptual boundaries, and offers an intensity of experience that gives it a special status on the soundtrack.

Singing Out contains a range of approaches to the singing voice, offering students and researchers a variety of methodological and critical tools to understand the contemporary context and importance of singing in multimedia.