Conference: Music & The Moving Image
MAY 29, 30, 31 (Fri-Sat-Sun) - Daily from 9:00AM - 6:00, 2009
2008 SCHEDULE: Music and the Moving Image
Housing Section:
If you are interested in NYU housing you must notify us by March 24, 2009. Participants and auditors have the option of staying in the Hayden Hall dormitory, on Washington Square Park, ideally located at the heart of NYU's main classrooms and facilities. Bedrooms have a bed, desk, dresser and closet/armoire for each student, rooms are air-conditioned, but they do not have telephone or Internet access. There is 24-hour security. Participants will receive a package of bed linens with a small towel when they arrive. Housing costs and dates are as follows:
Conference (May 29-31): $195/single
CALL FOR PAPERS
The third annual conference, Music and the Moving Image, encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between music and the entire universe of moving images (film, television, computer, video games, and interactive performance) through paper presentations, roundtables, and plenary sessions. This year live performance/screenings will be a featured part of the evening program. Streaming video versions of every presentation will be available only at NYU from May 30 - June 3, 2008. Accepted papers will be considered for inclusion in the new peer-reviewed online journal Music and the Moving Image: http://mmi.press.uiuc.edu
The Program Committee includes Macquarie Univ. Senior Lecturer Rebecca Coyle (Reel Tracks: Australian Feature Film Music and Cultural Identities), composer/NYU artist faculty Ira Newborn (The Naked Gun), NYU Director of Music Composition Robert Rowe (Machine Musicianship), Professor of Film Studies, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Jeff Smith (The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music) and coeditors of Music and the Moving Image, Gillian B. Anderson (Haexan; Pandora's Box; Music for Silent Film 1892-1929: A Guide) and NYU Director of Film Music, Ron Sadoff (The Moon and the Son; with Roy Prendergast Film Music: An Eclectic Art).
Abstracts from 2007 conference here.
The conference will run in conjunction with the NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop in Memory of Buddy Baker (May 20-29, 2009) and the NYU/BMI Song Writing Workshop. Abstracts or synopses of papers (250 words) should be submitted to Dr. Ron Sadoff, chair of the program committee, by no later than Jan. 14, 2009.
E-Mail ron.sadoff@nyu.edu for more information.
Conference fee (May 29-31): $135.00, Students: $65.00, Housing Available
Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions - 35 W. 4th Street, Suite 777 - New York, NY 10012 - (212) 998-5424
NYU Steinhardt - Music and Performing Arts Professions - 35 W. 4th Street, Suite 777, New York, NY 10012