PhD student Matthew London has been accepted to present a 20-minute paper titled “The Non-Composer Influence: Speculating on the Poietic Processes Shaping Film Music and Sound” at the Music and Media: Directions and Aesthetics of the Digital Era conference at University College Dublin, 11 - 12 June 2026.

The paper explores how non-composer figures - such as directors, producers, sound designers, music supervisors, and re-recording mixers - contribute to shaping a film’s sonic identity. Adopting a speculative, poietic perspective, it examines how distributed creative decision-making challenges traditional models of authorship in film music and points toward multiple forms of integrated-soundtrack practices.