Call for Papers - IX Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music

IX Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music (IX SBCM)
Music as Emergent Behaviour

Introduction

The Ninth Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music will be held in
Campinas, at the University of Campinas - UNICAMP, from 06 August to 08
August, 2003.

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 edition of the Congress is
coordinated by UNICAMP's Institute of Computing;  UNICAMP's
Interdisciplinary Nucleus for Sound Studies (NICS) and the Institute of
Fine Arts (IA) will host the ninth edition of the computer music
symposium.

There will be key-note speeches by renowned researchers, paper sections,
music papers, tutorials and demonstrations. Researchers, musicians,
educators, manufacturers and all concerned with the interplay between
music and technology, are invited to submit work.

Symposium Theme: Music as Emergent Behaviour

The attempt to model biological phenomena by means of evolutionary
computing techniques is proving to be a viable route for a better
theoretical understanding of living organisms, let alone the practical
applications of biological principles for technology (e.g., robotics and
nanotechnology) and medicine.

Evolutionary computing techniques have the potential to reveal new
fundamental aspects of our musical creativity, because they provide a
rich framework to study how cultural systems can emerge from socially
interacting individuals. For example, evolutionary computing models can
be used to study the circumstances and mechanisms whereby music might
originate and evolve in artificially designed worlds inhabited by
virtual communities of musicians and listeners. Creativity is studied
here in the context of the origins and evolution of cultural conventions
that may emerge under a number of constraints, such as psychological,
physiological and ecological constraints.

We welcome works investigating the potential of evolutionary computing
for musicology and composition, in addition to the wide range of topics
of interest listed below.

Topics of interest include, but are not necessarily restricted to

- Acoustic Modelling and Sound Diffusion
- Algorithmic Composition
- Artificial Life and Evolutionary Music
- Artificial Intelligence
- Audio Hardware Design
- Audio Signal Processing
- Computer-Aided Musicology
- Digital Audio Libraries
- Music and Sound on the Internet
- Multimedia Integration
- Music Data Structures and Representation
- Musical Databases and Data Mining
- Music Notation, Printing and Optical Recognition
- New Interfaces for Musical Expression
- Psychoacoustics and Cognitive Modelling
- Real-time Generative Systems
- Sound Compression
- Sound Synthesis
- Systems for Music Analysis
- Systems for Musical Education

Important Dates

    * 30/03/2003 - closing date for submission of works (research paper,
discussion paper and music paper)
    * 08/05/2003 - notification of acceptance of works
    * 29/05/2003 - closing date for submitting the final version of the
works

Coordinators

Dr Jônatas Manzolli - [log in to unmask] (IX SBCM Chair)
UNICAMP (NICS & IA)

Dr Eduardo Reck Miranda - [log in to unmask] (Papers Chair)
University of Plymouth, UK

Dr Geber Ramalho - [log in to unmask] (Papers Chair)
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

Dr Fernando Iazzeta - [log in to unmask]  (Music Paper Chair)
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Papers Scientific Committee

Aluizio Arcela, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
Daniel Arfib, CNRS Music and Acoustics Laboratory, France
Peter Beyls, St Lukas Art School, Belgium
Marcio Brandao, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
Jürgen Bräuninger, University of Natal, South Africa
Andrew Brown, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Emilios Cambouropoulous,  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Lelio Camilleri, University of Bolgona, Italy
Palle Dahlstedt, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Furio Damiani, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Simon Dixon, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
Austria
Henkjan Honing, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Andrew Horner, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong
Kong
Sergi Jorda, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Luis Jure, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
Fabio Kon, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Victor Lazzarini, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Marc Leman, University of Gent, Belgium
Oscar Pablo di Liscia, Universidad de Quilmes, Argentina
Adolfo Maia Jr., Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Tony Myatt, University of York, England
Felipe Otondo, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Marcelo Soares Pimenta, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil
Petri Toiviainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Ian Whalley, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Marcelo M. Wanderley, McGill University, Canada

Music Papers Committee

Cesar Villavicencio, Royal Conservatory, Haia, Netherlands
Didier Guigue, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Brazil
Guy Garnett University of Illinois, USA
Miguel Azguime, Miso Music, Portugal
Mikhail Malt, Ircam, France
Paulo Chagas, Composer, Germany
Ricardo dal Farra, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina
Sergio Freire, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Stephen Davismoon, The Ian Tomlin School of Music, Edinburgh

Submission Categories

- Research papers: These papers should report concluded scientific
and/or technical research results or systems. They must be written in
English and should not exceed 8 A4 pages;

- Discussion papers: These papers will discuss ongoing research work.
They may be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English and should not
exceed 6 A4 pages.

- Music papers: A music paper is a composition accompanied by a report
of computer techniques and materials involved in the compositional
process.They may be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English and should
not exceed 6 pages.

Submission Rules: for Research and Discussion Papers

Complete papers reporting ongoing or concluded research should be
submitted. Abstracts or incomplete papers will not be accepted. Note
that there are two different categories of papers, both of which will be
published in the proceedings.

Please state clearly in a covering front page:

- which of the above topics (if any) best describes your subject matter;

- the paper category that you are submitting (i.e., research or
discussion);

- name(s) and address(es) of the author(s).

Since the reviewing process is anonymous, the heading of the first page
of the paper should contain only the title. You are kindly requested not
to reveal your identity in your paper (avoid self reference etc.).
Preferred format for submission are RTF, EPS or PDF. Should a
prospective participant need to submit a paper saved in a format other
than RTF, PDF or PS, please check with the papers Chairs. Preferred
format for music submission is MP3.

As with previous symposia, a selection of Research papers will be
considered for publication in international journal(s), as appropriate.

Music Papers

Composers are invited to submit music papers presenting the
compositional procedures and the role of the computer in the
compositional process. These papers plus the compositions will be
refereed by a dedicated committee and the selected papers will appear in
the proceedings.

The music papers will be presented in two concert sessions of 3 papers
each. Each composer will have 30 minutes in total, for paper
presentation, audition and discussion.


Further information about Paper Format Guidelines and the URL for
Submission of works will be available at IX SBCM's Web site
(http://www.ic.unicamp.br/sbc2003/).

Alternatively, contact the organising committee:

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