At this year’s SMT conference in Milwaukee, I’m pleased to announce that three interest groups will hold a joint panel about improvisation in worldwide multimedia. The Improvisation Interest Group, of which I’m a chair, will meet with the Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries (GIMP) Interest Group and the Film and Multimedia Interest Group to present a panel called Intercultural Intersections of Film, Multimedia, and Improvisation, which will be held on Friday, November 6, at 7:00 PM.

The titles of the papers our prospective panelists will give include:

Singing Salsa: Paradigms for Soneo Analysis Notes
The Phrygi(In) Scale? Mode-Mixed Fills in Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl
Instrumental Symbolism in Tōru Takemitsu’s Score for Masahiro Shinoda’s Film Silence (1971)
“She’s Endangered Too”: Esperanza Spalding’s Curation of Wayne Shorter’s “Endangered Species” (1985/2012/2018)
On Intercultural Punning
Listening as Intercultural Negotiation of Documentary Sound in Tan Dun’s The Map and Nu Shu
Enculturated Semantic Branching In The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
Lens and Subject: Intercultural Film Scoring in Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor
Music and Interculturality in Cinema: A comparison of Bollywood, Hollywood and Nollywood
Creative Agency and Extemporaneous Dimensions to Kurdish Wedding Phraseology and Its Embedded Referents

Deep thanks are due not only to the panelists, but also to Aaron Carter-Enyi, Desirée Mayr, Yiyi Gao, and Clair Nguyen for co-organizing this panel. I’m looking forward not only to the talks, but also to post-panel discussion.