Announcements

Impuls Academy

The Impuls 11th International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music (Impuls Academy) will take place 10–22 February 2019 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. Founded by Beat Furrer and Ernst Kovacic, the academy gathers composers and musicians of international backgrounds for instrumental classes, ensemble work, composition classes, electronic and improvisation workshops, and specialty programs. The specialty programs will include Simon Steen-Andersen’s Music Extended workshop, aimed at synthesizing traditional composition with electronic, video, and performative creative practices. The Algorithms that Matter workshop, led by David Pirrò, Hanns Holger Rutz, and Robin Minard, aims to examine and interpret the nature of algorithms in computer music composition. Participation in the academy requires an application and fee for registration, due 15 November 2018; further information is available at the event’s Web site.

Web: www.impuls.cc/en/academy-2019.html

International Conference on Live Coding

The 2019 International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC) will take place 16–18 January 2019 in Madrid, Spain. The conference will be hosted by Medialab Prado, and will comprise concerts, installations, lectures, and workshops related to live coding practice and research. The ICLC organizers define live coding as the creation and modification of algorithms with a creative purpose in real time, often in the presence of a physical or virtual audience. The live coding community seeks to engage in a wide cross section of artistic practices including but not limited to music, audiovisual creation, robotics, dance, scientific research, and education. This year’s conference follows previous editions at the Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras in Morelia, Mexico; at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada; and the inaugural edition held at the University of Leeds in the UK. According to the conference organizers, topics of particular interest at the conference will include free culture and the relationship of open-source and hacker aesthetics to live coding, teaching and learning live coding inside communities, and collaborative and networked creation mediated by live coding.

Web: iclc.livecodenetwork.org/2019

SPLICE Festival

The second annual SPLICE Festival will take place 8–10 November 2018 at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. The SPLICE Festival aims to blend live music performance with new technologies. The festival will bring together composers and performers for a weekend of concerts and presentations covering topics such as aesthetics, technology, and performance practice, with the goal of inspiring, educating, and sharing information among the attendees and the students at the host institution. The festival aims to foster community and to create bonds between performers and composers dedicated to music that involves dynamic, live performance with technology.

Web: splicemusic.org/festival/ii/about