Announcements

International Computer Music Conference

The International Computer Music Association in association with Aalborg University Esbjerg will host the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) on Holmen Island in Copenhagen, Denmark, 27 August–1 September 2007 (see Figure 1). The theme of the conference is "Immersed Music," which is to be interpreted both in the sense of how the brain interprets music, and also in the sense of being surrounded by water, as is the location of the conference, being at the border of the Copenhagen channels. This theme might be addressed by compositions and papers that involve immersed performance interfaces, immersed perception, etc. The conference chair is Kristoffer Jensen; the music chair is Lars Graugaard; the papers chair is Stefania Serafin; and the program chair is Jens Arnspang. New this year is the use of "ICMC Ambassadors," experts who will help coordinate efforts in the areas of their specialties.

Web: www.icmc2007.net

Figure 1.

The ICMC 2007 "Immersed Music" logo. Image: Kristoffer Jensen.

ISMIR 2007

The 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2007, will be held at the Vienna University of Technology 23–27 September 2007. The conference focuses on techniques for making the massive and growing amount of digital musical materials accessible efficiently and effectively. The conference brings together researchers and developers, educators and librarians, students and professional users, to present original theoretical or practical work in this interdisciplinary domain. Topics include automatic classification, music recommendation and playlist generation, score following and alignment, music summarization, Web mining, compression and streaming, modification and transformation of musical data, emotion, aesthetics, perception, and cognition, as well as social, legal, ethical, and business issues. A day of parallel tutorial sessions kicks off the conference.

Web: ismir2007.ismir.net/cfp.html

Auditory Display

The 13th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) will take place at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in association with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) 26–29 June 2007 in Montreal, Canada. The theme for this year's conference is "Immersed in Organized Sound," and is intended to encourage the exploration of commonalities between work with musical sound and work in auditory display. Special session are planned in the areas of (1) analysis and synthesis of environmental sounds; (2) auditory warnings and alerts: best practices and new approaches; (3) auditory–haptic interaction in information display; (4) binaural technology for auditory display; (5) effective auditory displays, listening abilities, and learning; and (6) the role of binaural reproduction in music, film, and radio-play productions.

Web: www.music.mcgill.ca/icad2007

Electroacoustic Music Studies

The fourth Electroacoustic Music Studies International Conference (EMS07) is scheduled to take place 12–15 June 2007 at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. The theme of the conference is "The 'languages' of electroacoustic music," and topics include analysis, transcription and representation, taxonomy, description, real-time music making, listening, intention-reception, genres, and gender issues. Dennis Smalley and Katherine Norman are scheduled to deliver keynote talks.

A pre-conference workshop is scheduled on "New Protocols in Electroacoustic Music Analysis," which is to examine new and highly dynamic approaches being developed for electroacoustic music analysis. These approaches include the use of interactive analytical tools, use of multimedia/hypermedia in analysis and presentation of analytical results, the documentation of non-prescriptive notated composition, triangulation analysis, and other computational techniques. Invited presenters include Michael Clark, Barry Truax, Eduardo Miranda, Yann Geslin, Pierre Couprie, and Kate Stevens.

Web: www.ems-network.org

Technology in Music Instruction

The Association for Technology in Music Instruction will hold their next conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, 15–18 November 2007. Topics for the conference include music technology curricula, on-line instruction, performance including music technology, and the use of computer technology in ensembles. The conference includes performances that feature media technologies, in particular those relevant to curricular issues.

Web: www.atmionline.org

Sound and Music Computing

The fourth Sound and Music Computing conference (SMC '07) is scheduled to be held 11–13 July on the island of Lefkada, Greece. The main topics of the conference are reflected symbolically in the archetypes of the three...