Announcements

ICMC 2017/EMW

The 43rd International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2017) will take place 16–20 October 2017 in Shanghai. ICMC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the sixth Electronic Music Week (EMW). Hosted by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and organized by its Department of Music Engineering, ICMC 2017/EMW will include presentations of research, concerts, sound installations, and poster presentations. The conference’s theme is Hearing the Self. Through this theme, the organizers have expressed the desire to explore “the sound of the self,” following a saying ascribed to Taoist philosopher Laozi: “The best music and art lay in silence and abstraction.”

Paper presentations will include topics such as acoustics, aesthetics and history, algorithmic composition, artificial intelligence and music, the cultural and social impact of computer music, biologically based art and music, computational musicology, computer music languages, live coding, new technology for notation and scores, music cognition, real-time composition and improvisation, studio reports, virtual environments for music, and wearable music technology. A special session will also feature Mandarin-language papers, with abstracts translated to English.

Concert programming will consist of fixed-media works, works for acoustic instruments and electronics, voice and electronics, laptop improvisation and live coding, audiovisual works, noise music, and technology-aided musical theater and dance. Additional fixed-media works will be presented in listening room sessions. A separate EMW Young Talents Commission Program will feature works by composers born after 1987.

Web: icmc2017.com

Audio Mostly

The Audio Mostly 2017 conference will be held 23–26 August 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. Audio Mostly 2017 welcomes researchers, interaction designers, engineers, artists, practitioners, audio professionals, and anyone interested in sound as a medium of interaction. The conference is organized by the Centre for Digital Music at QMUL, and its theme is Augmented and Participatory Sound/Music Experiences. As stated by the organizers, at the intersection between augmentation and participation lies the idea of expanding how one interacts with the environment and of becoming actively involved. Applied to science, the arts, health, and the environment, these themes invite one to push the frontiers of design and interaction, to propose new artistic formats, to improve accessibility, and to empower individuals.

Audio Mostly 2017 will include paper presentations, research demonstrations, workshops, a concert, and audio installations. The conference proceedings will be published by the Association for Computing Machinery and will cover topics such as augmented and participatory performance, digital augmentation, augmented and virtual reality, the “Internet of things,” digital music interfaces, auditory display and sonification, sonification of health and environmental data, auditory data mining and sonification of large data sets, gestural interaction with sound or music, game audio, ethnographies, audio branding, and architectural acoustics. Musical works at the conference will cover a variety of styles and genres, encompassing algorithmic composition, performance involving interactive audience participation, multimodal audience experience, dynamic music composition, application of musical information retrieval and signal-processing techniques for music composition and performance, and novel use of existing and repurposed material. The conference will be co-located with the third Web Audio Conference (WAC) at QMUL, with 23 August as a common day shared between the two events; participants will have the opportunity to attend both events at a discounted rate.

Web: audiomostly.com

Third Web Audio Conference

The third Web Audio Conference (WAC) will be held 21–23 August 2017 at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London. WAC, an international conference dedicated to Web audio technologies and applications, addresses research, development, design, and standards concerned with emerging audio-related Web technologies such as the Web Audio API, Web RTC, WebSockets, and JavaScript. The conference welcomes Web developers, music technologists, computer musicians, application designers, researchers, and individuals involved in Web standards. The conference will include keynote talks by Chris Chafe and Franziska Schroeder, oral presentations of papers, posters, demonstrations, tutorials, and musical performances. The conference will also host Web-based sonic artworks, which will be exhibited throughout the conference venue and on the conference Web site.

Web: wac.eecs.qmul.ac.uk

TIES 2017

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC), and the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) have announced the eleventh...