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: Lakeshore B |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Pedagogy Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Timothy K Chenette, Utah State University The Commodification of the Music Theory and Aural Skills Core Curriculum Representation in Music Theory Pedagogy Authorship Teaching Timbre, Teaching Games: Video Game Music as a Pedagogical Asset |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Music Theory and Spirituality Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Laura Emmery, Emory University The Rhythmicon and Henry Cowell’s Theosophical Neoplatonism "It's About Time": George Russell and Fourth Way Metaphysics Seeing (Heavenly) Harmony: Music-Theoretical Mythmaking in Mrs. F. J. Hughes’s Harmonies of Tones and Colours Developed by Evolution (1883) |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Iranian Musical Encounters and Meanings Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Armaghan Fakhraeirad Politics of (Dis)connection: Iranian Musicians, Social Media, and Diasporic Encounters From Silence to Sound: Iranian Women Musicking under Suppression and after Migration ‘I, too, was once a musician’: The double-marginalisation of Iranian Migrant Musicians in Canada Secularizing Social Identity Through Performing Khayyami |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Sounding Disability Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Jeannette D. Jones Discussant: David VanderHamm, Johnson County Community College Music and visual disability in the early modern Hispanic world: The tradition of blind organists Rendering Disability: Experiencing the Sonically Disabled Film Body Traces of d/Deaf History: Listening to Henri Gaillard's 1918 Laboratoire de la Parole Recording |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Keyboard Technologies: Inscription and Replay Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Jason Rosenholtz-Witt, University of Kentucky Reviving the Ghost in the Machine: The Steinway Spirio and the New Era of Mechanical Performance Redefining "Old" Organ Tablature Rudolf Serkin’s Rolls with the Punches |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
SMT Improvisation & Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Groups Meeting Location: Lakeshore B |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Sacred Music and the Performance of Power Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Melinda Latour Afro-European Music, Religion and Performance in the Early Modern Kingdom of Kongo Amo Christum: Music for a Divine Marriage Translation as Musical Reclamation: Oratorio Adaptation and Sephardic Acoustic Identity in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Editing Musicology and Theory Journals: How Can We Improve the System Together? Location: Lakeshore B |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Music and the Visual Arts Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Navid Bargrizan, East Carolina University "Music That Makes Holes in the Sky": The Idea of Absolute Music in Georgia O'Keeffe's Early Music Paintings Wassily Kandinsky: A Paint-Splattered Musical Modernist Fanny Hensel’s Notturno Napolitano in the Artistic Imagination |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Creative (Mis)Reading: Musical Adaptation of the Modern Novel Location: Lakeshore B Presentations of the Symposium A“Bad” German: Walter Kretschmer in Weinberg’s "The Passenger" “Her Voice Is Full of Money”: Daisy Buchanan’s Siren Song in Kate Soper’s "Voices from the Killing Jar" Sympathy for the Devil: Woland as Adaptation |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Transmission, Reception, and Aesthetic Experimentation in Russian and Turkish Music Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Inna Naroditskaya Opera Audiences in St. Petersburg, Russia (1825-1840) The Three Rachmaninoffs: Late-Romantic, Symbolist, & Post-Romantic Alaben voisen: A Turkish Song in Avignon (ca. 1630-1650) |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Sounds of the Contemporary City: Music and Musicking in Urban Spaces at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Location: Lakeshore B Presentations of the Symposium NEW GENRE PUBLIC OPERA: CRITICISM AND AESTHETICS IN "ANOTHER CITY." HEAR MỊ OUT: REMIXING ETHNICITY/CIVILIZATION IN V-POP MEDELLINIFICACIÓN: GENTRIFICATION, TOURISTIFICATION, AND THE URBAN AURAL SPHERE |
| Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Beyond the Specter of “AI”: Algorithmic Bias, Systems of Power, and the Impact of Machine Learning on Contemporary Soundscapes Location: Lakeshore B Presentations of the Symposium I’ll Be Bach: On Compositional Identity, Machine Learning Algorithms, and the Claims of Computational Composition What Madonna and Kraftwerk Can Teach Us about Music Copyright after The "AI Turn" What is a Voice Worth? Voice Actors and AI Voice Labor under Techno-Capitalism |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Making Music and Meaning on the Internet Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Mark Samples Fakes, Grifts, Hallucinations, Hoaxes: Hearing Musical Misinformation Online “I Choose Violence”: Reverberant Feminist Rage in a Man v. Bear Digital World #soundscape: Virtual Spatiality, Online Sonic Atmospheres, and Soundscaping Platforms |