Announcements

EvoWorkshops2006: EvoMUSART

The fourth workshop of the EvoNet working group on evolutionary music and art is to be held 10–12 April 2006 in Budapest, Hungary. The gathering of researchers and artists using evolutionary computational methods in their work will include an open panel discussion, a panel for establishing collaborations, and an exhibition and demonstration session in addition to the oral paper presentation sessions. Topics will include generation of art and music, robotics-based art, using evolutionary algorithms for the analysis and interpretation of art and music, computer-aided creativity, and theoretical developments such as validation methodologies and comparative analysis.

Web: evonet.lri.fr/eurogp2006/?page=evomusart.

Linux Audio Conference

The fourth annual Linux Audio Conference (LAC) will take place 27–30 April 2006 at the ZKM Institute for Music and Acoustics in Karlsruhe, Germany. The conference includes talks, workshops, poster sessions, and concerts. Linux hardware, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA), and the Planet CCRMA audio packages are among the topics regularly covered at these conferences. See CMJ 28(4) for a detailed review of an ealier LAC.

Web: lac.zkm.de/2006/index.shtml.

NIME 2006

New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) will be held at IRCAM in Paris 5–7 June 2006. Topics include controllers for musical expression, controllers for collaborative performance, interfaces for dance and physical expression, interactive sonification, sensor technologies, haptic and force feedback devices, perceptual and cognitive issues, and gestural and musical mapping strategies. The conference will include a special session on violin-based and violin-inspired interfaces. There will also be interactive installations and a performance series.

Web: recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/temps-reel/nime/call.htm.

ICAD 2006

The International Community for Auditory Display will hold their 2006 conference at Queen Mary's College in London, UK, 19–24 June. ICAD is the leading conference for research on the use of sound to display data, monitor systems, and provide audio-enhanced user interfaces for computers and virtual reality systems. The conference attracts an interdisciplinary group of attendees from fields such as psychology, psychoacoustics, media, design, music, sound design, human-computer interaction accessibility, computer games, and a variety of application domains.

Web: www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/icad2006.

ICASSP 2006

The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing will take place 14–19 May 2006 in Toulouse, France. The conference is mainly speech-oriented, but covers much that is of interest to the computer music community, and includes sessions on audio and electro-sensor arrays, and a wide variety of signal-processing topics.

Web: www.icassp2006.com/default.asp.

Three Faces of Electroacoustic Music

Musiques et Recherches in Ohain, Belgium, will be hosting the "Three Faces of Electroacoustic Music" festival 19–21 May 2006. It will include a diverse range of composition styles including acousmatic, live, and interactive music over the course of the three evening events. A 60-speaker system will be used for the diffusion of some of the works.

Web: www.musiques-recherches.be/agenda.

Creative and Scientific Legacies of Iannis Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001) is a unique figure in contemporary music, not only for the iconoclastic nature of his music, but also for the scientific attitude he brought to his work. An international symposium, "The Creative and Scientific Legacies of Iannis Xenakis" will take place 8– 10 June 2006 in the Canadian cities of Guelph, Waterloo, and Toronto. The aim of the symposium is to gather researchers and artists/composers who consider their work to form part of Xenakis's legacy, either creative or scientific. In addition, joint sessions are being planned to bring together researchers from the music field with those in science (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics) and mathematics (Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences). Proposals that in some way bridge these disciplines are welcome.

Figure 1.

A young visitor explores the reacTable, a controller from the Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, which co-hosted the International Computer Music Conference in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2005. (Photo by Diemo Schwarz.)

This Symposium is being held in conjunction with soundaXis (1–12 June, 2006) a festival where, among much else, a...