ISIDM members,

Here's a reminder about the upcoming deadline Aug. 1 for
interactivity-oriented submissions for Organised Sound.  Looking forward to
seeing your submissions.

Mara Helmuth
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Volume 7, Number 3

Issue thematic title: Interactivity
Date of Publication: December 2002
Publishers: Cambridge University Press

A primary concern for musicians working with technology and performance is
the development of interactive systems and instrument design. Due to leaps
forward in computer processing power capabilities, real time systems can now
be much more powerful than in the past.  However, newly developed software
and hardware configurations require appropriate control strategies to
facilitate performances which are satisfying artistically or aesthetically.
 Mapping stragegies constituted the focus of Issue 7, No. 2.  Further areas
of exploration for this issue include the development of sensors and
actuators, sound production in real time systems, interface design and dance
technology. Understanding how the new systems affect the roles of
"composer", "instrument" and "performer", as well as the music created, is
also under consideration.

We invite submissions from composers, performers and researchers working
with interactive systems and instrument design for this issue.  It will be
the first in a new annual collaboration between Organised Sound and the
International Computer Music Association, and ICMA's Array Editor Mara
Helmuth will be co-ordinator. The International Computer Music Association's
Working Group on Interactive Systems and Instrument Design in Music (ISIDM)
was created in collaboration with the Electronic Music Foundation to
investigate interactive systems, and their work will be highlighted in this
issue. We would also especially welcome submissions by others on this theme,
as well as those that fall outside the scope of this theme.

Deadline for submissions is 1 August 2002.  Submissions may consist of
papers, with optional supporting short compositions or excerpts, and/or
audio-visual documentation of performances.  Supporting audio and
audio-visual material will be presented as part of the journal?s annual
CD-ROM which will appear with issue 7/3.  Related discussion will be located
on the ICMA Array website, www.computermusic.org/array.php or
http://www.notam.uio.no/icma/array.php, and additional multimedia material
at the Cambridge University Press website.