Announcements

NIME 2015

New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) is the premier conference on designing human–computer interfaces and interactions for musical performance. NIME gathers researchers and practitioners around lectures, installations, concerts, and workshops. Louisiana State University (LSU) and the city of Baton Rouge will present the 15th edition of NIME, 31 May–3 June 2015, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

The LSU School of Music and Center for Computation and Technology will host NIME 2015. The conference will bridge the past and future, with opportunities to engage in the rich musical history of Louisiana, as well as to make use of the newly opened facilities at the LSU Digital Media Center, including a 92-speaker immersive sound theatre. The organizers are also involving the LSU Digital Art program in an expansion of the sonic art installations category, for extended exhibition at the Shaw Center for the Arts, the LSU Museum of Art, and Glassell Gallery.

Web: nime2015.lsu.edu

CMMR 2015

The eleventh International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR), “Music, Mind, and Embodiment,” will take place in Plymouth, UK, on 16–19 June 2015. The symposium will include a research program, a series of concerts, and a satellite workshop on music neurotechnology. The Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) will host the symposium in their newly completed headquarters, “The House,” on the Plymouth University campus. The House features a multichannel diffusion suite and a full-scale auditorium for concert performances.

The organizers have encouraged the submission of contributions related to the theme of “Music, Mind, and Embodiment.” According to the organizers, the notion of mind and embodiment is important in any field related to sound and music, and is therefore well adapted to this interdisciplinary conference. It can be studied from different standpoints spanning from physics to perceptual and cognitive considerations, and also from scientific to artistic approaches.

The organizers put forth some central questions of interest in this context: how to identify perceptually relevant signal properties linked to music; how to define new, perceptually and emotionally relevant timbre descriptors; the link between mind and embodiment in musical performance, interpretation, and improvisation; how gesture and embodiment can be used as a control signal for music generation, sonification, and performance; and how multiple modalities can be characterized in interdisciplinary musical contexts (with regard to visual, auditory, kinesthetic, biological, and/or neurological approaches).

Featured keynote speakers include Hugues Vinet of l’Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), David Rosenboom (California Institute of the Arts), and Eduardo Miranda (ICCMR).

Web: cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/cmmr2015/

International Conference on Live Coding

The first International Conference on Live Coding will take place 13–15 July 2015, hosted by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music (ICSRiM) at the University of Leeds, UK.

This conference follows a long line of international events on liveness in computer programming: the Changing Grammars live audio programming symposium in Hamburg, Germany, in 2004; the LOSS Livecode festival in Sheffield, UK, in 2007; the annual Vivo festivals in Mexico City from 2012; the live.code.festival in Karlsruhe, Germany; the LIVE workshop on live programming at the International Conference on Software Engineering 2013 in San Francisco, California; and Dagstuhl Seminar 13382 on Collaboration and Learning through Live Coding in 2013 in Wadern, Germany; as well as numerous workshops, concerts, algoraves, and conference special sessions. It also follows a series of Live Coding Research Network symposia on diverse topics, and the activities of the TOPLAP community since 2004. The organizers hope that this conference will act as a confluence for all this work, helping establish live coding as an interdisciplinary field, exploring liveness in symbolic abstractions, and understanding the perceptual, creative, productive, philosophical and cultural consequences.

The proceedings will be published with an International Standard Serial Number and there will also be a follow-on opportunity to contribute to a special issue of the Journal on Performance Arts and Digital Media.

Web: www.livecodenetwork.org/iclc2015/

TENOR 2015

The first International Conference on New Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR) will be hosted by l’Université Paris-Sorbonne and IRCAM, on 29–30 May 2015, in Paris, France. The conference is dedicated to...