Posted: April 14th, 2026 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on «Everybody calls me Giorgio»: Moroder across media, arts and communication
Brixen, Faculty of Education, University of Bozen-Bolzano
10-12 September 2026
IASPM Italia + IASPM D-A-CH
Giorgio Moroder’s biographical and professional history is remarkable and quite peculiar: belonging to a linguistic minority, raised in a region culturally and geographically removed from the main centres of the music industry, without any formal musical education, he nonetheless managed to become one of the most innovative and successful musicians on the planet.
This conference will be an opportunity to take a closer look Giorgio Moroder’s role in music and media, as well as broader, interconnected themes such as dance music, studio production, arts entrepreneurship, film music, intermediality, and remix cultures. The conference will also explore cultural heritage, sociolinguistics and migration routes in music and the arts, drawing on Moroder’s history as an artist born and raised in the predominantly Ladin-speaking Val Gardena/Gröden/Gherdëina in South Tyrol, Italy, then professionally matured in Germany and eventually relocated to the United States.
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Posted: April 14th, 2026 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The DJ Set
Special issue of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Music and Dance Culture
Edited by Lorenz Gilli, Johannes Hentschel, Dennis Mathei, and Ivan Mouraviev
https://dj.dancecult.net
This special issue of Dancecult aims to expand and deepen scholarly discussion of the DJ set: the live event and musical object around which much of electronic dance music culture revolves. We intend to continue the conversation catalyzed by musicologist Mark Butler’s study Playing with Something that Runs in 2014 about how DJ sets are prepared, performed, conceptualised, and mediated, following this journal’s own special issue on the DJ in 2011 as well as Kai Fikentscher’s (2000) and Butler’s earlier work (2006). We invite proposals for research that will build on these and more recent efforts by taking analysis of the DJ set and DJ performance, broadly understood, into new territory with respect to genre, space, sound, technology, identity, history, music and cultural theory, and more. In doing so, we identify a need for more scholarship that specifically explores what DJ sets are and what people do with them as musical events and objects that are shaped by power and social forces. This call recognizes, in turn, that DJ culture is undergoing significant transformations that may be changing the nature of DJ sets themselves. An estimated 37% of clubs have closed since March 2020 in the UK, while musical histories are only gradually being written for—and clubs are largely failing to secure the safety of—DJs and partygoers who are women, queer, trans, and people of colour (Garcia-Mispireta 2023: 191; NTIA 2024: 27). Livestreaming and digital DJ tools are also more abundant than ever, with the dominant market players that produce them attempting to consolidate their power further (McGlynn 2024).
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Posted: April 14th, 2026 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Circuits to Culture: Synthesizers as Instruments, Interfaces, and Ideas
12-13 September 2026 | Townshend Studio | University of West London, UK
SYNTHposium 26 will be an in-person only event this year.
We invite submissions for SYNTHposium ’26, bringing together practitioners, researchers, engineers, musicians, and scholars – interested in synthesizers in all their forms – historical, technical, cultural, and creative. We welcome proposals for paper presentations, performance-demonstrations or other initiatives over a two-day event bringing together practitioners, researchers, engineers, musicians, and scholars. Presenters will also be invited to a distributed creativity event on the evening of 11 September for a unique chance to use the historic instruments in the collection.
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