Symposion on Music/Sonic Art call for papers

In conjunction with InterSymp 2010: 22nd International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics

Symposion on Music/Sonic Art

August 2-6, 2010
Markgraf-Ludwig Gymnasium, Hardstrasse 2, Baden-Baden, Germany

CALL FOR PAPERS:
We are pleased to announce the International Symposium on Music/Sonic Art: Practices and Theories, an interdisciplinary two-day event to be held in Baden-Baden, Germany. The provisional dates of the Symposium are August 2-3 in order that participants can also attend other symposia such as: the 8th Special Focus Symposium on Art and Science, the 3rd Symposium on Systems Research in Arts and Humanities and Comprovisations: Improvisation Systems in Performing Arts and Technologies.

Proposals for sessions and individual papers for the International Symposium on Music/Sonic Art: Practices and Theories are invited from academics, practitioners and post-graduate students of diverse fields of investigation, according to one of the following formats: academic research paper (including research in progress), report on practice-based work or educational programmes. (Delegates wishing to present performances are advised to consult the call for papers of symposia listed above.) All proposals will be judged based on their scholarly quality, originality and potential for further discourse.

Paper Proposals/Abstracts should be submitted as soon as possible but no later than March 30, 2010. Notification of Acceptance and a Paper Template will be sent to authors by April 9, 2010. Further details on Submission Guidelines, the Copyright Transfer Form, and the Conference Registration Form are available at the IIAS home page: www.iias.edu.

Please note that the early registration fee is 345.00 Euros (per one Conference participant) if paid on or before May 1, 2010 and 395.00 Euros thereafter: this includes participation in all Symposia of the IIAS InterSymp 2010 Conference, the festive reception, the symposium booklets and the Music/Sonic Art Symposium Proceedings - Volume I.

Paper committee: Prof. Dr. Mine Dogantan-Dack (Middlesex University, UK); Prof. Clarence Barlow (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Holger Zschenderlein (University of Brighton, UK); Fiorenzo Palermo (University of Middlesex, UK); Dr. John Dack (Lansdown Centre for Electronic Art, Middlesex University, UK).

Sound ACTs call for papers

Sound as Art - Sound in Culture
Sound in Theory - Sound in History
Conference on Sound Studies

University of Aarhus, Denmark
September 23–25, 2010

The aim of the conference is to profile contemporary sound studies as an interdisciplinary field of studies and to contribute to the discussion and development of the auditive paradigm in general. Key concepts like 'acoustemology', 'acoustic space', 'sonic environment', and 'atmosphere' might be reflected upon and developed as well, both at a theoretical level and with regard to specific cultural, medial and aesthetic contexts.

The program of the conference will consist of keynote lectures, plenary roundtables, thematic workshops and individual presentations of papers and sound art projects. Keynote speakers are Dr. Penelope Gouk (University of Manchester), Dr. Jean-Paul Thibaud (CRESSON), and professor Adam Krims (University of Nottingham).

Special sessions will be held for sound artists to present and discuss their work, and a workshop will take place on Friday where small groups of sound artists will develop sound installations for presentation in the evening. A special call for this stream will be issued.

The conference is organized by the National Research Network on Auditive Culture, the research project Audiovisual Culture, the research group Urban Sound Institute (and www.usit.nu), and the Nordic Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.

Proposals for presentations (20/10 mins) or workshops (90 mins) must be submitted to the conference organisers/programme committee by April 1, 2010 as an email attachment (rtf/pdf/doc) to soundstudies@hum.au.dk. Please include the following information: Paper abstract and title (max. 200 words), name(s), affiliation, e-mail, and technical equipment required (PC/DVD/CD/data projector/over-head projector/etc.). Notifications of acceptance will be sent no later than May 3, 2010.

The official language of the conference is English. The conference fee is 1.000 D.Kr/€135.

For more info, see http://auditiveculture.ku.dk/dokument7/

New books in EMS' library

• Teknologi för livet : om Experiments in Art and Technology
• Adlington, Robert (ed.): Sound commitments : avant-garde music and the sixties
• Blomberg, Katja (ed.): Peter Ablinger : hören, hören = hearing, listening
• Broman, Per F. ; Engebretsen, Nora A. & Alphonce, Bo (ed.): Crosscurrents and counterpoints : offerings in honor of Bengt Hambræus at 70
• Bucht, Gunnar: Rum, människa, musik : essä
• Bull, Michael & Back, Les (eds.): The auditory culture reader
• Collins, Nick: Introduction to computer music
• Dogantan-Dack, Mine: Recorded music : philosophical and critical reflections
• Dyson, Frances: Sounding new media : immersion and embodiment in the arts and culture
• Goodman, Steve: Sonic warfare : sound, affect, and the ecology of fear
• Howe, Hubert S.: Electronic music synthesis
• Hultgren, Veronica: Text-ljudkomposition
• Kim-Cohen, Seth: In the blink of an ear : toward a non-cochlear sonic art
• Krause, Bernie: Wild soundscapes : discovering the voice of the natural world : a book and CD recording
• Lunell, Hans: Kompilatorkonstruktion : i teori och praktik
• Miranda, Eduardo Reck & Biles, John Al (eds.): Evolutionary computer music
• Moore, Brian C. J.: An introduction to the psychology of hearing
• Mossberg, Frans (ed.): Sound, mind and emotion : research and aspects : texts from a series of interdisciplinary symposiums arranged 2008 by The Sound Environment Centre at Lund University, Sweden
• Nierhaus, Gerhard: Algorithmic composition : paradigms of automated music generation
• Park, Tae Hong: Introduction to digital signal processing : computer musically speaking
• Stenberg, Ulf: Den gröna potatisen
• Taube, Heinrich K.: Notes from the metalevel : introduction to algorithmic music composition
• Toole, Floyd E.: Sound reproduction : loudspeakers and rooms
• Wierzbicki, James: Louis and Bebe Barron's Forbidden planet : a film score guide
• Wisén, Marie & Karlsson, Henri (eds.): - att tvinga tonerna att tala : en bok till Ingvar Lidholm
• Zorn, John (ed.): Arcana : musicians on music
• Zorn, John (ed.): Arcana II : musicians on music
• Zorn, John (ed.): Arcana III : musicians on music
• Zorn, John (ed.): Arcana IV : musicians on music

CeReNeM Journal call for papers

The Journal of the Centre for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield is currently soliciting articles for its second edition. The theme of this edition of the Journal will be 'Physicality and Tactility in Contemporary Electronic Music'.

The Journal will be peer reviewed and published online by CeReNeM at the University of Huddersfield. All submissions on this topic will be considered. We are particularly interested in articles concerning the following areas:

• physicality as aesthetic in all areas of electronic music (electroacoustic, glitch, microsound, ambient etc.)
• live-electronic improvisation
• new interfaces
• extended instruments
• performance practice
• sonification of external physical data
• sensors
• issues of virtuosity in new technology
• live coding as performance
• perception of physicality in electroacoustic music

Articles should be between 3000 - 6000 words using the attached template and submitted by email to monty(dot)adkins(at)hud(dot)ac(dot)uk by Friday 21st May.

This edition will be co-edited by Dr Monty Adkins and Dr Scott McLaughlin and will be published in July 2010. Further details and enquiries can be made to monty(dot)adkins(at)hud(dot)ac(dot)uk.

FIMPaC 2010 call for papers

Forum for Innovation in Music Production and Composition (FIMPaC)
Thursday 20 and Friday 21 May 2010
In Association with: Journal for Music, Technology and Education, www.intellectbooks.co.uk

The Forum for Innovation in Music Production and Composition takes place at Leeds College of Music from Thursday 20th to Friday 21st May 2010. FIMPaC is an annual event focusing on research and practice related to innovations in Music Production and Composition. This year's event is in association with the Journal for Music, Technology and Education. FIMPaC¹s goal is to bring together composers, producers, music industry representatives, academics, educators and students to discuss their practice, research and industry experiences; FIMPaC encourages participants and delegates that represent the commercial music industry and academia.

Keynote Speakers

• Jazzie B, founder of the collective Soul II Soul is our Keynote for 20th May and will open the conference. He will discuss his experiences within the Commercial Music Industry.
• David Toop will open the second day of the conference and address connections between commercial and experimental music and whether we can sustain notions of their independence. David will also be performing in the evening.

Call for Papers
This year's call for papers is in association with the Journal for Music, Technology and Education. Proposers are asked to indicate on their submission if they would like their work to be considered for publication in a forthcoming issue of the journal.

For more information go to http://www.lcm.ac.uk/research-conference/fimpac.htm.

SUM - symposium and concert in Stockholm

SUM symposium and concert in Stockholm, Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Systematic Understanding of Music
Today, digitally informed music has reached a point where it has become feasible to detect emotion content in the musical audio stream (sound). When this is applied in real-time to aspects of its response, a new context for the creation, performance and listening to music is established where man and machine can interact in much more meaningful ways than previously. This provides for new and more engaged expressions, giving new horizons for musical artwork.

The purpose of the SUM project is to develop such tools by building on existing work by internationally outstanding scholars in the Nordic countries in digital signal processing, music cognition, emotion expression, and interaction software development. For additional information about the SUM project: http://re-new.org/research/sum/

SUM symposium
Onsdagen den 17 februari 2010 kl 10.00-17.00
A330 (Kompositionsseminariet), Kungliga Musikhögskolan, Valhallavägen 105, Stockholm (T-Bana Stadion)
Lars Graugaard (DK), Anders Friberg (KTH), Marcus Wrangö (KMH)

10.00 Introduktion till SUM / Lars Graugaard
11.00 Känslor i musik / Anders Friberg
12.00 Probabilistic melody maker / Anders Friberg & Lars Graugaard
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Kreativa möjligheter
Systematiskt bruk av känslor i musik / Lars Graugaard
15.00 Demo: Gestiska sensorer / Marcus Wrangö
16.00 Tillämpningar och presentationer
(re-new digital arts festival) / Lars Graugaard
17.00 Slut

Konsert
Onsdag 17 februari, kl 20.00. Fylkingen, Torkel Knutssongatan 2, Stockholm (T-Bana Mariatorget)

Symposiet är gratis, konserten kostar 80 kr (student 60 kr).

Ljudkultur

Some info in Swedish only about the course Sonic culture - soundscapes and the making of sound at Linköping university.

Ljudkultur - ljudlandskap och skapande av ljud är en fristående kurs (30 hp) vid Institutionen för studier av samhällsutveckling och kultur/Enheten Kultur Samhälle Mediegestaltning på Linköpings universitet, Campus Norrköping. Den ges på både grundläggande och avancerad nivå och startar höstterminen 2010. Lärare är bl.a. Magnus Alexanderson.

Record label list updated

Added a few labels to the record label list. Additions welcome.

Call for Papers: COMPROVISATIONS - Improvisation Systems in Performing Arts and Technologies

INTERSYMP 2010
22nd International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics And Cybernetics
August, 2­-6, 2010
Markgraf-­Ludwig Gymnasium, Hardstrasse 2, Baden-­Baden, Germany

Special Focus Symposion (August 5, 2010) on COMPROVISATIONS - Improvisation Systems in Performing Arts and Technologies

Submission details are available as a PDF.

Linux Audio Conference 2010 call for papers, music and workshops

The conference about Open Source Software for music and audio
May 1-4 2010
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU)
Utrecht, The Netherlands
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010

Calls are under the tab Participation on the website.