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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9:00am Liminal and Supernatural Topics Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Dylan J Principi , Florida State University
Trolls, Norwegian Identity, and the Musical Uncanny: Agathe Backer Grøndahl’s I Blaafjellet, Op. 44
Bjørnar Utne-Reitan
In the Beast’s Footsteps: The Kaijū Subtopic in Monster Media
Tanner Cassidy
Social Media’s Role in the Emergence of Musical Topics
Brittney Pflanz
10:45am Analysis of Popular Music II Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Brad Osborn
“Loads of Random Major Chords”: Triadic Progression as Motive in the Music of Cardiacs
Brett Clement
Harmonic tension and temporality in loop-based popular music
Ian Quinn, Aditya Chander, Stefanie Acevedo
“I’m sorry y’all, I often drift – I’m talking gift” Microrhythmic analysis of rap – categorization, malleability and structural bothness.
Kjell Andreas Oddekalv
12:30pm SMT Music Notation and Visualization Interest Group Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji
2:15pm Techniques and Technologies Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Jonathan De Souza , University of Western Ontario
“Keys to the Lamborghini”: Picking Transformations and Embodiment in Rock Guitar Instructional Videos of the early 1990s
Juan Luis Rivera
Mixed Signals: Exploring the Production Mix in Hip-Hop
Jackson Sean Faulkner
Music’s Problem for AI, and AI’s problem for Music
Christopher White
4:00pm Form in Popular Music Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Alyssa Barna
Bridge Function in Recent Popular Music
Wes Khurana
Corpus of Chaos: Headbanging to Conventional Form Cues in Meshuggah’s Unconventional Songs
Stephen S. Hudson
“The Bridge of Our Lives”: The Anthem Bridge as the Emotional Climax in Modern Pop
Hannah Grace Laws
7:30pm AMS Music and Media Study Group and SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group: Poster Session and Business Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji
Chair(s): Daniel Bishop , Clair Nguyen
Presentations of the Symposium
Exploring the Alograve Scene and Algorithmic Music
Wenshi Chen
The Paradigm Shift in Music and Music Scholarship Created by Recording Technology: A Change in the Dialectical Process for Modern Music Scholarship
Greg Martin
The Mando with No Name: Exploring Morricone, Göransson and New Musical Soundscapes of the Old West
Caleb Rebarchak
Coloring Sound: Intertextual Expressions of Music, Meaning, and Identity in Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's Music Videos
Sam Falotico
A Dance Party in the Desert: Rhythmic Play in Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Adam Rizzo
Musical Gestures and Expression in Bridgerton: Love, Humor, and Introspection in Film Scoring
Joyce Li Yue
Degree of Audiovisual Congruence Shapes Listener Engagement with Short-Form Media
Natalie Miller
