Theme Park Music and Sound Research

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Asynchronous Papers

Available shortly before the conference!

	Through the Utilidors: Theme Parks in Video Games and Digital Media
Thomas B. Yee	8-bit Magic in the Air: Double Diegesis and Existential Authenticity in Adventures in the Magic Kingdom
Clair Nguyen	Cartographic Sonicity in Virtual Theme Parks: Honkai Star Rail’s Clock Studios
Hee Seng Kye	On-Stage, Backstage: Sonic Cartography and the Exposed Architecture of Theme Park Sound in HBO’s Westworld
	Walking through Curious Labyrinths: Adaptation and Nostalgia
Lauren Crosby	Harmonic Cartography: Mapping Key Area Relationships in Disney’s “Rise of the Resistance”
Karen M. Cook	The Sound of Silence: The Enchanted Forest’s Sonic Specters

Thursday 18^th June

9:00	Registration and Welcome “To all that come to this happy place, welcome…”

9:30	Panel 1: Spatial Design – Octonauts, Trolls and Minions 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

11:00

Break

11:30

Keynote address: Olivia Zorab

12:30

Lunch

14:30	Panel 2: Corporate Strategies and Changing Sounds – Carousels and Arendelles 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

15:00

Break

15:30	Panel 3: De Efteling – Wereld vol Wonderen Chair: TBC
	Maria Schreurs	‘Op een grote paddenstoel…’: Spatial Folklore in De Efteling
	Louise Harris	Intermediality and Transperceptual Attention in Ruud Bos’s Efteling Rides

16:30

Cartographies workshop and planning for theme park visits

17:00

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Friday 19^th June Park Visit Day

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Saturday 20^th June

9:30	Panel 4: Thinking Through Tropes and Traditions – Cranium Command 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

11:00

Break

11:30

Keynote address: Gregory Camp Mickey’s Magical Musicals: The Disney Parks as Glocalised Soundscapes

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Cartography workshop: reviewing and reporting findings

15:00

Break

15:30	Panel 5: Transmediality – ‘Innoventions’ Chair: TBC
	Elizabeth Hunt	From Consoles to Concrete: Videogame Sound and Interactive Design in Super Nintendo World
	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

17:00

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