Announcements

14th CIM 2003, "Computer Music: Past and Future"

The 14th Colloquium of Musical Informatics (CIM) will be held on 8–10 May 2003 at Centro Tempo Reale in Florence, Italy. Sponsored by the Italian Association of Musical Informatics (AIMI), the CIM is the most important Italian gathering on recent research developments in computer technologies applied to music. Over the years, the CIM has also acquired international recognition as one of the major European conferences in the field.

At the three-day meeting, which takes place every two years, prominent European researchers discuss the evolution of various aspects of this multidisciplinary domain and listen to concerts of electroacoustic music, with pieces selected from proposals sent from all over the world. Usually over 150 researchers take part. Invited speakers deal with the thematic subject of each conference. The CIM schedules plenary presentation sessions, poster sessions, and a series of concerts of electroacoustic music with compositions.

The CIM 2003 organizing committee consists of Nicola Bernardini, Francesco Giomi, Lelio Camilleri, and Nicola Giosmin (all from Italy). The scientific committee includes Daniel Arfib, Yann Orlarey, Xavier Rodet (all from France); Chris Chafe, Roger Dannenberg, Douglas Keislar, Colby Leider, Robert Rowe, Eleanor Selfridge-Field (all from USA); Godoy Rolf Inge (Norway); Shuji Hashimoto (Japan); Marc Leman (Belgium); Xavier Serra (Spain); Martin Supper (Germany); and Giovanni De Poli, Stefano Bassanese, Lelio Camilleri, Antonio Camurri, Giuseppe Di Giugno, Paolo Nesi, Angelo Orcalli, Davide Rocchesso Lorenzo Seno, and Leonello Tarabella (all from Italy).

For more information write to info@xivcim.org or visit the Tempo Reale and AIMI Web sites at www.xivcim.org, www.centrotemporeale.it, and aimi.dist.unige.it.

Electroshock Festival Postponed

Electroshock, the First Russian International Festival of Electronic, Electroacoustic, Experimental, and Avant-garde Music has been postponed until August 2003. The 14–day festival, which had originally been scheduled for August 2002, was to have taken place in major concert halls throughout the city of St. Petersburg, with participation of an international group of composers, performers, and media artists from more than 20 countries. The Electroshock organizers have been asked to postpone the festival for one year in order to become an official part of the 300th anniversary celebration of the founding of St. Petersburg.

Australian Sound Design Project: News and Call for Submissions

Australian Sound Design of Public Acoustic Space is a research project hosted by the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne and funded by a large grant from the Australian Research Council to enable the development of a nationwide database and Web site of Australian sound design. A representative sample of Australian sound designs from both indoor and outdoor sites will publicize this national practice. The comprehensive database and cross-referenced Web site is intended to provide a platform for further discourse and analytical study. The language and practice of sound design will be developed through ensuing discourse, and the importance of sound profiled for interdisciplinary designers, curators, museologists, acousticians, communications engineers, architects, urban and regional planners, environmentalists, sound artists, and musicians.

Potential contributors are invited by the coordinators Ros Bandt and Iain Mott to call, email, or visit The Australian Centre in Carlton, Victoria, where they are available to assist in this process. Address and contact information, as well as instructions for contributions and the database itself can be found at www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au.

ICMC 2003, 2004, and 2005 Announced

At the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) general membership meeting held during the International Computer Music Conference in Göteborg, Sweden, in September 2002, it was announced that forthcoming conferences are expected to be held in Singapore (2003), Miami (2004), and Barcelona (2005). Each conference is hosted by an independent institution in coordination with the ICMA.