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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