- PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT -
CIM14 – Technology – Berlin
9th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology
4-6 December 2014 @ National Institute for Music Research, Berlin
Technology is the theme of the 2014 edition of CIM, which will be held from 04 to 06 December 2014 at Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung (National Institute for Music Research), in Berlin, Germany.
Technology is omnipresent in our lives and it plays an important role in contemporary social development, particularly in the so-called Westernised world. The role of technology in our daily life is even more so remarkable with the increasing ubiquity of technology, specially computing technology, in various activities of our contemporary society, music being a notable example. Yet, there is no single universally accepted definition of “technology”.
CIM14 will be aimed at all discourses on the interplay between technology and music, including collaborations between sciences and humanities, interactions between academic research and musical practice, and interdisciplinary combinations that are innovative, unusual, and creative.
Conference Sessions & Topics:
Below is a list of suggested topics as an initial think-tank for the conference sessions. These sessions are not definite and we welcome suggestions for topics not covered below. See also CIM14’s website for a more comprehensive list.
We are particularly interested in new emerging fields of technology in music research and practice, which could form a session on New Emerging Technologies, which might include: Music Neurotechnology, Neuromusicology & Neuro-inspired Music Theory, Evolutionary Computing in Music & Musicology, Computational Ethnomusicology and Unconventional Computing in Music.
a) Mapping the Field: including, Music Technology, Technology in Musicology and Music Research, Technology in Ethnomusicology, Technology in the Neuroscience of Music, Technology for Music Education.
b) Sociology, Anthropology & Psychology: including, Technology as Gender Sensitive Construction, Diversity & Technology, Women in Music Technology, Evolutionary Musicology.
c) Philosophy, Criticism & History: including, Philosophy and Theory of Music Technology, History of Music Technology, Music Beyond Technology, Critique of Technological Determinism.
d) Art & Aesthetics: including, Technology in/for Composition, Electroacoustic Music Studies, Technological Criteria in Performances.
e) Analysis: including, Technology in/of Music Analysis, Analysis of Musical Performance.
f) Technology of Music Technology: including, Software & Hardware Design, Perceptual Coding, Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction, Sound Diffusion.
g) Science and Art of Sound Recording: including, Tonmeister Practice and Advances in Music Technology, Archiving & Restoration, Storage and Preservation of Music, Hi-Density Formats.
h) Technology of Musical Instruments: including, Design and Development of Acoustic Musical Instruments, Digital Musical Instruments & Musical Interfaces, Restoration of Musical Instruments.
i) Documentation, Archiving & Retrieval: including, Library Technology for Music, Music Databases, and Information Design for Musical Instrument Museums.
k) Musical Practice: including, Extended Instrumental / Vocal Techniques, Technology for Education and Practicing music, Composers’ and Performers Forums on Technology.
Special Sessions) New Emerging Technologies: including, Music Neurotechnology, Neuromusicology & Neuro-inspired Music Theory, Evolutionary Computing in Music & Musicology, Computational Ethnomusicology and Unconventional Computing in Music.
For further details please follow the link below or contact the conference chairs:
http://www.sim.spk-berlin.de/cim14
Chairs:
Timour Klouche, Researcher, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung
(SIM, Berlin, Germany) – [log in to unmask]
Eduardo Reck Miranda, Professor and Head of Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research
(ICCMR, Plymouth University, UK) – [log in to unmask]
Important Deadlines:
Abstract submission: 01 July 2014
Registration: 01 Oct 2014
Submission of papers:
All submissions that address the topic of Music Technology are welcome.
An important ranking criterion in the peer reviewing process is the papers’ interdisciplinarity. Quality aspects for determining the grade of interdisciplinary in this respect are: Either a collaboration of researchers from different disciplines, a topic/method that is inherently transdisciplinary / interdisciplinary, or a topic that is especially meaningful (and/or new) to other disciplines.
Deadline for abstract submission: 01 July 2014
Please see the online submission page for more information including important details about the submission format:
http://www.sim.spk-berlin.de/cim14submission
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