MUSIC AND THE INTERNET CONFERENCE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AND ONLINE
JUNE 9–10 2023 (All times in CDT/UTC-5)
KEYNOTES AND STREAM A: Performance Penthouse (Logan 9th floor)
STREAM B: Logan 801
COFFEE AND LUNCH: Logan 802
Z - Zoom (virtual)
C - Chicago (in-person)
FRIDAY 9 JUNE | ||
9:00am-10:00am BREAKFAST | ||
9:45am WELCOME | Kate Galloway Stim Gamble Paula Clare Harper | |
10:00am-11:30am KEYNOTE PANEL | Imani Mosley c Babatunde Akinboboye z | |
11:30am-1:00pm PANELS 1AB | ||
1A: Classical music on contemporary platforms | Andrew Barrett c | YouTube (Classical) Guitarists: Crossover, Context Collapse, and 21st-Century Musicking |
Chair: Paula Clare Harper c | Leo Sarbanes z | Public Practice: TwoSet Violin and Classical Music’s Digital Turn |
Inka-Maria Nyman z | Opera on extra stage: consumption of opera on Instagram | |
1B: Fandom and Fan Participatory Creation | Erin Sweeney Smith z | Music Analysis and Social Media in the Our Flag Means Death Community |
Chair: So Yoon Lee c | Kate Pattison c | Harry’s (Creative) House: How Participation In Online Music Fandoms Teaches Fans Valuable Creative Skills |
Lucy Bennett and Rafal Zaborowski z | #RunningUpThatHill and popular music fandom on TikTok | |
1:00pm-2:00pm LUNCH | ||
2:00pm-3:30pm PANELS 2AB | ||
2A: Social media music for social impact | Humberto Sánchez z | Cypher 2.0: first reflections on hip-hop and social media |
Chair: Rina Sugawara c | Kate Quinn z | Online Metal Communities and Peer Support for Mental Health |
Henry Morgan c | ‘Is this DG?’: Politics, meaning and the memetic negotiation of identity among fans of Death Grips | |
2B: Early music aesthetics online | Samuel N. Dorf c | Extreme Early Music and Historically Uninformed Performance Practice on the Internet |
Chair: Aimee González c | Joana Freitas z | Cosy taverns and fantasy living: music, medievalisms and realities in today’s transmedialities |
Sarah P. Files z | "you're studying in a haunted library with ghosts": Dark Academic Music as a Social Agent | |
3:30pm-4:00pm BREAK | ||
4:00pm-5:30pm PANELS 3AB | ||
3A: Memes and conspiracies | Varun Chandrasekhar c | A Conference Presentation but It’s Midwestern Emo: Memes as Musical-Theoretical Insight |
Chair: Lucy March z | Ed Katrak Spencer z | QAnon meets the BeyHive: When Beyoncé became Ann Marie Lastrassi |
Hannah Judd z | This paper investigates the viral Youtube video “20th Century Fox Flute.” | |
3B: The platformization of music and sound | João Francisco Porfírio z | Music for bathrooms: YouTube and the sonification of hygiene and intimacy |
Chair: Mike Levine c | Liz Pelly z | “Did Spotify Invent Hyperpop?” and Other Inquiries Into Platform-Created Microgenres |
Alexandria Arrieta c | Splice and the platformization of hip hop production: Navigating the platform for royalty-free samples | |
5:30pm-6:15pm RECEPTION 3RD FLOOR TERRACE |
SATURDAY 10 JUNE | ||
8:30am-9:00am BREAKFAST | ||
9:00am-10:30am PANELS 4AB | ||
4A: Musical applications of artificial intelligence | Tina Tallon z | Words About Music: Exploring the Promises and Pitfalls of AI-Powered Text-to-Music Synthesis |
Chair: David Bird z | Will Mason c | Music meets Web 3.0: Assessing the Holly+ Decentralized Autonomous Organization |
4B: Music on Twitch | Steven Gamble and Jason Ng c | Livestreamed beat battles on Twitch: labour, income, and sustainability for music production communities |
Chair: Kate Galloway c | Julian Grey c | Performing Through the Mirror: Trans Drag on Twitch |
Molly Hennig c | Gathering & Listening on Twitch: A Brief Ethnographic Study | |
10:30-11:00am BREAK | ||
11:00am-12:00pm PANELS 5AB | ||
5A: Networked performances | Joel Rust z | Everything |
Chair: Takashi Shallow c | Zach Dawson, Georgios Mizithras, Dimitri Ellinas z | music to compose music to: Liminal Spaces and Intermedial Music |
5B: Audiovisual affordances | Kate Galloway c | Lip Dubbing for Fido: Listening to the Internet through Viral Pet Remix Video Memes |
Chair: Paula Clare Harper c | Melissa Avdeeff z | “Make it a Sound”: The Audio Ecology of TikTok |
12:00pm-1:30pm LUNCH | ||
1:30pm-3:00pm PANELS 6AB | ||
6A: Online music archives, economies, and policies | Olga Kolokytha and Raffaela Gmeiner z | Online music archives and their importance for the music sector |
Chair: Danielle Shlomit Sofer z | Cody Black c | Voice, Intersubjective Anticipation, and Listening for Potential in the Aural (Non-)Circulation of Entrepreneurial Music in South Korea's Digital Attention Economy |
Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson z | Is Streaming a Sound Salvation? On the Role of Cultural Policy in Canadian Music Dissemination | |
6B: Genre, authenticity, and irony | Lauren Shepherd c | Authenticity and Intimacy in the Space of Bedroom Pop |
Chair: Caleb Herrmann c | Lee Tyson c | Hyperpop and the Synthetic Authenticity of the Digital Voice |
Leo Ross c | Serious Fun: Irony and Sincerity in the 100 gecs Fandom | |
3:00pm-3:30pm BREAK | ||
3:30pm-5;00pm KEYNOTE PRESENTATION | Jabari Evans c | "Promise of Peril | Studying the Landscape of the Music Industry in Web 3.0 and the Age of Intelligence" |
5:00pm-5:30pm CLOSING REMARKS | ||
7:00pm CONFERENCE DINNER |