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Conference Agenda

The Online Program of events for the 2025 AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.

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Session Overview
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B

Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025
10:45am - 12:15pm	Expression in Vocal Music I Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Chair: Chelsea Burns, University of Texas at Austin “Be Bimbos, Ladies!” Vocality, Drag, and the Chappell Roan Persona Kasey Jai Lynch Non-Normativity as Queer Expression in Reneé Rapp’s Snow Angel (2023) Claire Terrell "Let the Vagina Have A Monologue": Exploring Persona in Janelle Monáe's Music Sarah Tobin
2:15pm - 3:45pm	Hybridity, restructure and renewal: Anthony Braxton at 80 Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Organizer(s): Amy Bauer, Isaac Otto Hayes, Clay Downham Chair(s): Bauer Amy Presentations of the Symposium A/semanticity and plastic constraint: Anthony Braxton’s new notations Isaac Otto Hayes Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music as Meta-tradition Amy Bauer Anthony Braxton’s Paradox of Universalism Clay Downham
4:00pm - 5:30pm	Teaching Electronic Dance Music in Core Theory: Practical Applications and Critical Pedagogy Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Organizer(s): Jeremy Smith Chair(s): Hannah Benoit Presentations of the Symposium Form in Electronic Dance Music: A Pedagogical Approach Hannah Benoit EDM as Timbre Learning Lab Megan Lavengood Teaching Rhythmic Theory Through Electronic Dance Music Jeremy W. Smith

Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025
9:00am - 10:30am	Music and Games Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Chair: Peter Smucker, Stetson University DM as DJ?: Understanding the Dungeon Master as Player through Ludomusicality Haley Heinricks Musical Function and Meaning in the Japanese Role-Playing Game Alan Elkins Tracing Percussion Orchestration in Early NES Soundtracks (1983-1987): Understanding Coded Parameters Through FFT Analysis Joseph T Chang
10:45am - 12:15pm	Emerging Directions in Music Theory Publication Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Organizer(s): Aaron Carter-Ényì, Ji Yeon Lee Chair(s): Aaron Carter-Ényì, Ji Yeon Lee Discussant(s): J. Daniel Jenkins Presentations of the Symposium Modeling Musical Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2025) Kimberly Goddard Loeffert, John Peterson “Music Theory in the Plural,” - Music Theory Online Edwin Li, Chris Stover, Anna Yu Wang SMT-V Táhirih Motazedian
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Informal Business Meeting Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
2:15pm - 5:30pm	Don't Wake the Balrog! Navigating Copyright Issues in Publication Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Organizer(s): Clare Sher Ling Eng Chair(s): Clare Sher Ling Eng Discussant(s): Brent Auerbach, Trevor de Clercq, Rush Hicks, J. Daniel Jenkins, Kara Yoo Leaman, Mark Spicer Presentations of the Symposium Introduction to US and European Copyright Laws' Roles in Academic Music Publications Lauren Wilson The role of libraries and librarians Lina Sheahan Transforming video examples Scott Murphy Asian languages and copyright research Clare Sher Ling Eng Creating an open educational resource Victoria Malawey
7:00pm - 9:00pm	New York University Reception Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B

Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025
9:00am - 12:15pm	Hearing Marginalization, Demanding Equity Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Organizer(s): Cora Palfy Chair(s): Cora Palfy Presentations of the Symposium Sonic Misogyny and Resistance: Gender-based Violence and Girlhood in J-pop Yiqing Ma ...And My (Trans?) Gender Analysis Maeve Gillen Subversion and the Double Burden in Varvara Gaigerova’s Suite for Viola and Piano Jacy Pedersen Teaching Fanny: Marginalized Voices in Rock and the Role of AI in Repertorial Equity Sarah Louden Identity in the Brass Quintet Genre Abigail Webster
4:00pm - 5:30pm	Mastering the Art of the Abstract Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Chair(s): Stella Zhizhi Li Presenter(s): Stella Zhizhi Li
9:30pm - 11:30pm	Yale Party Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B

Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025

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10:30am

20th-Century Ideas II
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
Chair: Benjamin Levy, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Dialectic of Instrumental Synthesis and the Mimetic Afterlives of Musique Spectrale

Calum Jensen

Pulsing in a Hall of Mirrors: Musical Borrowing in John Adams’s Absolute Jest

Hei-Yeung {John} Lai

“Silence is the Canvas behind the Sound”: From Gesture to Timbre in Rebecca Saunders’s Works for Strings

Morgan Rich