Abstracts coming soon!
Asynchronous Papers
| Hee Seng Kye | On-Stage, Backstage: Sonic Cartography and the Exposed Architecture of Theme Park Sound in HBO’s Westworld |
| Thomas B. Yee | 8-bit Magic in the Air: Double Diegesis and Existential Authenticity in Adventures in the Magic Kingdom |
| Lauren Crosby | Harmonic Cartography: Mapping Key Area Relationships in Disney’s “Rise of the Resistance” |
| Clair Nguyen | Cartographic Sonicity in Virtual Theme Parks: Honkai Star Rail’s Clock Studios |
| Karen M. Cook | The Sound of Silence: The Enchanted Forest’s Sonic Specters |
Thursday 18th June
| 9:00 | Registration and Welcome
“To all that come to this happy place, welcome…” |
| 9:30 | Panel 1: Spatial Design
Chair: TBC |
| | Dan White | Music, Sound and Spatial Design at Alton Towers CBeebies Land |
| | Scott Wearing | Sonic Overlap in the Horror-Themed Worlds of Alton Towers |
| Rebecca Williams | Minion Music: Spatial Transmedia, Soundscapes, and Immersion at Universal Studios Orlando’s Despicable Me-themed Land |
| 11:30 | Keynote address: Olivia Zorab |
| 14:30 | Panel 2: Corporate Strategies and Changing Sounds
Chair: TBC |
| | James M. Bohn | There’s a Great Big Beautiful Advertisement |
| | Fanny Beuré | Sounds of a New (Adventure) World: Music and the Walt Disney Studios Makeover |
| 15:30 | Panel 3: De Efteling
Chair: TBC |
| | Maria Schreurs | ‘Op een grote paddenstoel…’: Spatial Folklore in De Efteling |
| | Louise Harris | Intermediality and Transperceptual Attention in Rudd Bos’s Efteling Rides |
| 16:30 | Cartographies workshop and planning for theme park visits |
Friday 19th June Park Visit Day
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Saturday 20th June
| 9:30 | Panel 4: Musical Traditions, Topics and Tropes
Chair: TBC |
| | Anna Marinela Lopez | Troll the ancient Yule-tide carol:’ The Disneyland Candlelight Processional, the Commercialization of Christmas, and U.S. American Identity Formation |
| | Ryan Nason | Surfin’ Through Outer Space: Retrofuturism in Disneyland’s Space Mountain |
| Ross Garner | Heavy Metal and Military Authenticity: The Diegetic Soundscape of Transformers 3-D at Universal Studios |
| 11:30 | Keynote address: Gregory Camp |
| 14:00 | Cartography workshop: reviewing and reporting findings |
| 15:30 | Panel 5: Transmediality
Chair: TBC |
| | Elizabeth Hunt | From Consoles to Concrete |
| | James Denis Mc Glynn | Performance or Playground?: Virtual Concerts as Themed Experiences and Transmedial Autofiction |
| Kate Galloway | Theme Park Audiovisual Aesthetics in Cozy Games and Acoustic Territory-Making for Micro-Scaled Cozy Worlds |
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