Hello #SCMS2026! Excited for this panel, C20 with @kategalloway.bsky.social, @oscarmoralde.com, and @hyeonjin.bsky.social: Embodying and Performing Gameworld Sonic Environments. (Sponsor: Sound and Music Studies SIG.)
First up: Galloway.
CFP: Sounding Things: Props, Material Culture, and Accessories in Popular Music
Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2026
Abstract Length: 350–500 words
Editors: Kate Galloway, Paxton Haven, and Mike Levine
Full call here: drive.google.com/file/d/1mfyd...
Walked off stage dramatically into darkness…. Had to come back to turn off his pedal.
On behalf of the 2026 Conference Program Committee for the Society for Cinema & Media Studies, I am pleased to inform you that your proposal was accepted. Congratulations! Title: Embodying and Performing Gameworld Sonic Environments
Pleased to say that I'll be at SCMS again next year, this time presenting on a panel with @kategalloway.bsky.social, @hoagietime.bsky.social, and @oscarmoralde.com!
Because there are many active junior and unprotected members.
North American Conference on Video Game Music (NACVGM) 13 Conference CFP (Formats: Paper Presentation, Poster/Game Demo/Sound Art Installation, Performance)
Dates: May 1–2, 2026
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI); Troy, NY (in person & virtual)
Deadline: November 21 2025
nacvgm.org/proposals/
It is fall syllabus time: any fav music/sound and fandom chapters/articles/readings?
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Popular Music and Society Taylor Swift
Guest Edited by Sarai Brinker, Kate Galloway, and Elizabeth Scala
The special issue of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies coedited by myself and Janine Bower appears to be out. Here is a link to the table of contents intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
Another copy out in the world!
Got it in my hot little hands at last! So grateful to @pch9857.bsky.social, @kategalloway.bsky.social, and Christa Bentley for the work of putting it all together! In my TSwift Era, obvs.
I’m so glad they sent the paperback instead of the hardcover indicated in the contracts I think because this version has THE cover!
On behalf of Sensory Studies legend & ringleader David Howes, re-sharing the Uncommon Senses V cfp, happening May 7-10 @ Concordia U in Montreal. Deadline is Jan 20. A wonderful conf & v welcoming community. Please circulate & happy to answer questions!
www.concordia.ca/cunews/artsc...
evergreen thread
(see what i did there)
It's hot off the press
Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games: Listening to and Performing Ludic Soundscapes is out and has an author flyer!
Hard copies!
Because Ludo and NACVGM are hybrid and similar audiences I’ve found that to be less true
Literally me booking my hotel tonight just so I don’t forget!
Albany!
Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games: Listening to and Performing Ludic Soundscapes is out and has an author flyer!
Off to AMS to do a few things
The book is out www.routledge.com/Music-and-So...
The book is out www.routledge.com/Music-and-So...
And it is a varied mix of people over here on my end.
Do I even want to look
Yeah the semi-nocturnal 3:30am zoom start is not as sunny and beautiful :)
It’s 3:30am ET and day 1 of Ludo2024. My big (slightly messy) coffee #1 is well underway. @ludomusicology.bsky.social
