Subject: [AUDITORY] NYU Music & the Moving Image - Conference Call From: Annabel Cohen <acohen@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 21:01:30 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development Conference: Music & The Moving Image May 30 - June 1, 2008 Deadline for abstracts: Jan 14 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://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/mmisub.html 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). The conference will run in conjunction with the NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop in Memory of Buddy Baker (May 16-23, 2008) 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, 2008. For more information see http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/scoring/conference or e-mail ron.sadoff@xxxxxxxx Conference fee (May 30 - June 1): $135.00, Students: $65.00, Housing Available