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: Lake Bemidji |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Analysis of Popular Music I Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Megan Lavengood, George Mason University Hearing Alternative R&B in Frank Ocean's "Self Control" Analyzing the Yodel in Popular Music Contrasting Verses in Indian Popular Music |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
SMT Music Informatics Interest Group Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Sets and Solfège Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Paul Sherrill, University of Utah Uncovering Howard Hanson's Proto-Set Theory Pedagogy Families of set classes arising from a cellular automaton in mod-12 and other modular spaces Unified Solfège Equations |
| 7:30pm - 9:30pm |
AMS Global East Asian Music Research Annual Business Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 In the Beast’s Footsteps: The Kaijū Subtopic in Monster Media Social Media’s Role in the Emergence of Musical Topics |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Analysis of Popular Music II Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Brad Osborn, University of Kansas “Loads of Random Major Chords”: Triadic Progression as Motive in the Music of Cardiacs Harmonic tension and temporality in loop-based popular music “I’m sorry y’all, I often drift – I’m talking gift” Microrhythmic analysis of rap – categorization, malleability and structural bothness. |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
SMT Music Notation and Visualization Interest Group Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
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 Mixed Signals: Exploring the Production Mix in Hip-Hop Music’s Problem for AI, and AI’s problem for Music |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Form in Popular Music Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Alyssa Barna, University of Minnesota Bridge Function in Recent Popular Music Corpus of Chaos: Headbanging to Conventional Form Cues in Meshuggah’s Unconventional Songs “The Bridge of Our Lives”: The Anthem Bridge as the Emotional Climax in Modern Pop |
| 7:30pm - 9:30pm |
AMS Music and Media Study Group and SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group: Poster Session and Business Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji Presentations of the Symposium Exploring the Alograve Scene and Algorithmic Music The Paradigm Shift in Music and Music Scholarship Created by Recording Technology: A Change in the Dialectical Process for Modern Music Scholarship The Mando with No Name: Exploring Morricone, Göransson and New Musical Soundscapes of the Old West Coloring Sound: Intertextual Expressions of Music, Meaning, and Identity in Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's Music Videos A Dance Party in the Desert: Rhythmic Play in Super Mario Bros. Wonder Musical Gestures and Expression in Bridgerton: Love, Humor, and Introspection in Film Scoring Degree of Audiovisual Congruence Shapes Listener Engagement with Short-Form Media |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Expressing Young Adulthood in Post-2010 American Popular Music: Generation Z, Feminist, and Queer Perspectives Location: Lake Bemidji Presentations of the Symposium Reading Transgender Identity in Music: SOPHIE’s “It’s Okay to Cry” and “Faceshopping” Hill Country Gay Boy: Topophilia, Queer Embodiment, and Myself in the Music of Sufjan Stevens “I’m the Perfect All-American:” Producing a Commodification of Girlhood for a New Generation |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Analytical Approaches to Anime Song (Anison) Location: Lake Bemidji Presentations of the Symposium The Anime OP(ening): a Corpus Study of Anison Anison’s Incomplete Narratives: Media Mix, Musical Form, and Divergence in "The Tatami Galaxy" From End Credits to Endless Loops: Intermedial Palimpsests of Momoiro Clover Z’s “Nippon Egao Hyakkei” |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
SMT Analysis of World Musics & Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Groups Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
From Chunking to 8-Bit Soundworlds: Aural Skills Foundations and Musicianship Through Video Game Music (Presented by Auralia & Musition) Location: Lake Bemidji Presenter: Timothy K Chenette, Utah State University Presenter: Thomas Yee, The University of Texas at San Antonio School of Music |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
20th Century Musical Institutions Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Rachel Vandagriff Beyond State Support: IRCAM and the Cultivation of Elite Patronage Contested Modernisms: The Reception of the Darmstadt School in Soviet Latvia Music Patron James Loeb |
| 9:30pm - 11:30pm |
Cornell Reception Location: Lake Bemidji |
| Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Jazz Instrumentalities Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: David Ake, Frost School of Music/Univ. of Miami Reproducing Jazz through Machines : The Forgotten Master of Player Piano in Jazz History—J. Lawrence Cook (1899–1976) and His Thousands of Piano Rolls Glocalization in Polish Jazz Violin: Manifestations of Folk and Freedom Patrice Rushen and the Fender Rhodes as Facilitator in Negotiations of Positionality |