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Music, Media, and Place: AMS Music and Media Study Group Panel and Business Meeting
Time:
Thursday, 09/Nov/2023:
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Session Chair: Daniel Bishop Session Chair: Jordan Carmalt Stokes, West Chester University of Pennsylvania - Wells School of Music Session Chair: Katherine Reed, California State University, Fullerton
Location:Plaza Ballroom E
Session Topics:
Music Theory and Analysis, 1900–Present, Film and Media Studies, Sound Studies, AMS
Presentations
Music, Media, and Place: AMS Music and Media Study Group Panel and Business Meeting
Chair(s): Daniel Bishop (Indiana University), Jordan Stokes (West Chester University)
Presenter(s): Kate Galloway (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Jonathan Minnick (UC Davis), Dale Chapman (Bates College), James Denis Mc Glynn (Trinity College Dublin)
Organized by the AMS Music and Media Study Group
Since the days of silent photoplay music, the representation of place, broadly conceived, has been one of film music’s most pervasive and fundamental functions, one that has been readily taken up and transformed by other forms of screen media. More recently, additional spatialized framings have extended this focus on place with distinct concepts of landscape and world. Such categories have expanded the interpretive possibilities of the discussion, enriching (while certainly not ignoring) familiar and persistent patterns of representational musical stereotyping. In varying ways, our presenters probe the implications of screen media’s ability to interweave the ontology of beings and the spaces they inhabit, explore the ecological implications of this interweaving, and interrogate music’s ability to both draw and contest boundaries as spatialized extensions of cultural identity.
Kate Galloway’s presentation, “On Pixelated Listening and Digital Sonic Environments,” addresses this creation of digital spaces within Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Jonathan Minnick’s presentation, “Faking the Mars Landing: Musical Deserts and Film Music Representations of Outer Space,” explores the shared compositional registers used in science fiction films to sonically construct and ideologically shape desert and extraterrestrial landscapes. Dale Chapman’s presentation, “Shed the Old Covenant”: Music, Faith, and Illiberalism in Midnight Mass” examines how the score’s transformation of traditional hymnody reflects a small island community’s shift into “messianic time” and their descent into a supernatural nightmare. Finally, James McGlynn's "Return to the Forgotten Forest: Collaborative Scoring Practices and Shaping the Fictional Geography of Kena: Bridge of Spirits (2021)" emphasizes the remarkably reflexive impact that the musical score for Kena bore upon the game’s design and setting, imbuing the architecture and fictional landscapes of Kena with a more explicitly Southeast Asian influence as a direct response to Gamelan Çudamani’s involvement in creating the game’s soundtrack. Together, these presentations examine a variety of approaches to the creation of place and landscape through music in contemporary media.
Following these presentations, the study group will host a business meeting for the remainder of our session.
