A quick reminder that nominations for our co-chair and grad rep elections are due this Friday, May 29th!  We will be holding two elections in June for a new Co-Chair to serve a three-year term and a new Graduate Representative to serve a two-year term.

SIG Sponsored Panels: The SIG is also sponsoring the following panels (and, because we couldn't include everyone unfortunately, please check out the array of sound- and music-focused papers across the conference to support your colleagues and the wider scholarly community beyond this list!):

Happy Conference Week! We will be hosting a joint social event with the RAMP (Radio, Audio Media, and Podcasting) SIG on Thursday, March 26, from 5–7pm. Check your group messaging email for details.

Your grad rep here with some self promotion-- I've co-organized this conference at UC Berkeley 3/7-3/8- free and open to public-- possibly of interest to some in this community! www.algorithmicmusicmethods.com

from the Classic Hollywood SIG: This Friday (2/27) at 3pm EST, we are excited to be hosting a virtual event that we think might be of interest to your SIG’s membership. Frank Krutnik will be discussing his new book, Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers: Radio and Film Noir

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CFP for IMR week (end of March) on new forms of image-sound relations (impossible auralities) in contemporary cinemas! Abstracts due March 16.

Today! Tuesday, February 17th, at 3pm Pacific Standard Time on Zoom, we're hosting a round of lightning talks by some of our graduate students who are preparing for dissertation defenses in the coming months. Please join us to hear about their research and to help them prepare!

Hello SIG Members, For those who weren't able to attend the annual meeting at the virtual symposium, here is a link to the virtual meeting minutes: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

SCMS Sound and Music SIG Virtual Meeting Minutes 2025

Sound and Music SIG Meeting Minutes 📅 Date: 12/06/2025 (Sat. Dec 6th) ⏰ Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm CT📍 Location: Zoom🧑‍💼 Meeting Organizer: Amy Skjerseth and Phoebe Macrossan👥 In Atendance: Seth Mullik...

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The Sound + Music SIG is extending the deadline for the 2025 Claudia Gorbman Graduate Student Writing Award to August 15th. This award recognizes outstanding scholarship by a grad student in sound and/or music media, and the winning essay is published in Music, Sound, and the Moving Image.

From Landon: I'm happy to share that @askjerseth.bsky.social has been elected to three-year term as Co-Chair of the Sound and Music Scholarly Interest Group. She'll be beginning her service alongside Co-Chair Phoebe Macrossan and Graduate Representative Ravi Krishnaswami. Congrats, Amy!

Reminder that our election for Sound & Music SIG Co-Chair (replacing the outgoing Landon Palmer) underway until tomorrow, June 11.

The election for the new Co-Chair for the Sound and Music SIG is currently underway. We have three candidates for the position: Arzu Karaduman, Seth Mulliken, and Amy Skjerseth. You can vote via this link, which also includes the candidates' statements and bios: www.cmstudies.org/surveys/?id=...

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Happy to announce that we are accepting submissions for the 2025 Claudia Gorbman Graduate Student Writing Award through 8/1. This award recognizes outstanding scholarship by a graduate student in sound and/or music media, and the winning essay is published in Music, Sound, and the Moving Image.

We will be holding an election in June for a new Co-Chair to serve a three-year term as I have reached the end of my term as Co-Chair. If you are interested in serving as Co-Chair, please send an e-mail to Landon Palmer at lapalmer2@ua.edu with the following information:

The SIG has put together a brief survey to assess interest in particular initiatives built upon some conversations held over the past year, including from our annual meeting. It should take no more than 10 minutes of your time and will run through Thursday, May 15: forms.gle/hbjUWGwzwejx...

Sound and Music SIG Questionnaire 2025

The purpose of this questionnaire is to assess interest and explore ideas pertaining to several initiatives of the Sound and Music Scholarly Interest Group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies....

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Good morning SCMSers! While we don't have officially sponsored panels today we have noted these two as of potential interest: O08: Sound, Affect, and the Cinema Q21: Hidden Conduits of Control in the Media Industries.

Good morning SCMSers, we have two more sponsored panels today: L6, "Rewinding Tape Across Media: Archives of Ambivalence (A RoundTaple)," will be dedicated as a tribute to Jonathan Sterne, a space for SCMS members to reflect on what he has meant to them and to our field. M15: TikTok Musicalities

We have FOUR sponsored panels today: F11: Elusive Voices: Between Sounds, Transcripts, and Algorithms H05: The Sounds of Outer Space H11: Sound Aesthetics Across Media J20: Crisis Listening: Global Sound Technologies and States of Emergency

Good morning, SCMS 2025! Today our SIG has two sponsored panels: A04: Alternative Histories of Sound Art and Sound in the Museum D12: Noncommercial Radio Broadcasting in the United States and Canada Also reminder tonight is our mixer with RAMP Sig (see email for details).

The Sound and Music SIG is once again collaborating with our friends in the Radio, Audio Media, and Podcasting SIG to host a mixer during the 2025 conference, on Thursday, April 3rd. Check your SIG update email for location. Here's a picture of a "mixer" for the algorithm:

The Sound and Music SIG joins many of you in mourning the passing of Jonathan Sterne. It's no exaggeration to say that he defined our shared field of study, and he is warmly remembered by many as a generous mentor and colleague.

The Sound and Music SIG is happy to announce that we'll be hosting a virtual conversation about the academic study of Taylor Swift to coincide with the publication of the edited collection, Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans, by Routledge.

Sharing a conference CFP that may be of interest: "Screening Live Performance: Multi-camera production and the performing arts" aims to unpack the past, present, and future of multi-camera production for the performing arts to understand how this shapes our appreciation of live performance.

Now accepting requests for panel sponsorship for the 2025 conference. If you're part of a panel that fits the remit of the SIG and want to be considered for sponsorship, please send an e-mail to me via lapalmer2@ua.edu with your panel title, abstract (if it's a preconstituted panel), 1/2

What makes music video a unique medium? @carolmusicvideo.bsky.social Carol Vernallis's helpful new video essay theorizes this incredibly influential body of audiovisual work. Save this teaching resource to your favorites! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW8b...

The Art of Music Video - 13 Points

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Our annual meeting during the SCMS virtual symposium will be held Friday, 12/06 from 11am-Noon U.S. Central Standard Time. We'll be making announcements, discussing some upcoming initiatives, and more. Check your inbox for SCMS info about the symposium and links to the events.

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Hello crew! Just a quick reminder that this is TOMORROW. Please be in touch if you are not on the email list and need the zoom link.

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The Sound and Music SIG is happy to announce that we'll be hosting a conversation with Alyx Vesey discussing her new book, Extending Play: The Feminization of Collaborative Music Merchandise in the Early Twenty-First Century.

The Sound and Music SIG is happy to announce that we'll be hosting a conversation with Alyx Vesey discussing her new book, Extending Play: The Feminization of Collaborative Music Merchandise in the Early Twenty-First Century.

Grad Students! The Sound and Music SIG is currently accepting submissions for the 2024 Claudia Gorbman Graduate Student Writing Award through July 19. The winning essay is published in Music, Sound, and the Moving Image. More info in this link: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Hello! This is your new grad rep @ravimusic.bsky.social taking over the social media. Beep boop.