Announcements

2003 International Computer Music Conference

The 2003 International Computer Music Conference will be held in Singapore from 29 September through 4 October 2003. Conference events will be held at the University Cultural Centre of the National University of Singapore. The hosts are University Scholars Programme, the Centre for the Arts of the National University of Singapore (NUS), and the Singapore Conservatory of Music. The conference theme celebrates music without barriers of cultures or genres, without prejudice of the traditional or the contemporary perspective, without discrimination against the old or the young. More information about ICMC 2003 may be found at www.icmc2003.org.

ISMIR 2003 in Baltimore and Washington DC

The Fourth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2003) will be held 26–30 October 2003 and will be co-hosted by the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. The majority of the sessions will take place in Baltimore, with events to be held at the Library of Congress as well. It will be co-chaired by Sue Manus (Library of Congress) and Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins University).

The annual ISMIR conference is an international forum for those involved in the growth of the management of music-related contents available digitally, locally, or remotely (through networks). This group includes researchers and developers, educators and librarians, students and professional users. The conference provides a venue for presenting original theoretical or practical work in peer-reviewed contributions (papers or posters), participating in discussion forums (panels), providing in-depth information in specific domains (tutorials), and showing current products (exhibits).

Additional information on ISMIR 2003 may be found on the Web at ismir2003.ismir.net or by subscribing to the ISMIR mailing list. (To subscribe, see the instructions at www.ismir.net.)

Ninth Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music

The Ninth Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music will be held at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), 6–8 August 2003. There will be keynote speeches by renowned researchers, paper sections, music papers, tutorials, and demonstrations. The symposium theme is "Music as Emergent Behavior."

Coordinators of the symposium are Dr. Jônatas Manzolli (IX SBCM chair), Dr. Eduardo Reck Miranda (papers chair), Dr. Geber Ramalho (papers chair), and Dr. Fernando Iazzeta (music papers chair). The Brazilian Symposia are organized by NUCOM, the computer music branch of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC), and they normally take place within the Annual SBC Congress. The 2003 congress is coordinated by UNICAMP's Institute of Computing and UNICAMP's Inter-disciplinary Nucleus for Sound Studies (NICS). The Institute of Fine Arts (IA) will host the ninth meeting of the computer music symposium.

Information on the symposium (in Portuguese) can be found at www.ic.unicamp.br/sbc2003/sbcm.html.

Resonances 2003

The Resonances 2003 International Convention on technologies for music will be held 15–17 October 2003, in the Petite Salle of the Pompidou Center, Paris. It is organized by the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) and the Pompidou Center, in collaboration with the universities De Monfort (UK) and Sorbonne, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel/le Groupe de Recherche Musicale, the Musée de la musique, Paris, and Electronic Music Foundation. The program committee includes Marc Battier, Joel Chadabe, Frédéric Dessas, François Delalande, Nicolas Donin, and Leigh Landy.

This year's theme is "Electroacoustic Musics: Resources, Discourse, Analytical Tools." Inspired by the EARS project (ElectroAcoustic Resource Site, MTI Research Group, De Montfort University) and initiated by the MTI and the MINT group of the Université de Paris Sorbonne, the conference will debate questions concerning resources, discourse, and analytical tools. Day 1 will focus on "Resources—methods for the construction, preservation and dissemination of documentation," Day 2 on "Discourse/analysis of electroacoustic works," and Day 3 on "Analytical tools creative tools: needs, existent systems and ongoing projects."

More information can be found on the Resonances 2003 Web site at resonances2003.ircam.fr.

The Pierre Boulez Project

Josh Ronsen, sound artist and coeditor of ND magazine, has embarked on the Pierre Boulez Project. Years ago, French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez wrote that "All art of the past must be destroyed." Before and since writing...