Tenth International Conference
Music /Sonic Art: Practices and Theories

Collaborative creativity / Creative Collaboration

MuSA 2019 – Karlsruhe

31 May – 2 June 2019

Hochschule für Musik, Karlsruhe –
Institut für Musikinformatik und Musikwissenschaft
Am Schloss Gottesaue 7, 76131 Karlsruhe

CALL FOR PAPERS:
We are pleased to announce the Tenth International Conference on Music 
and
Sonic Art: Practices and Theories (MuSA 2019), an interdisciplinary 
event to be
held in Karlsruhe, Germany at the Institute for Music Informatics and 
Musicology,
University of Music Karlsruhe
(http://hfm.eu/imwi/)

Conference dates: 31 May – 2 June 2019

Keynote speaker:
Professor Jane Ginsborg (Royal Northern College of Music, UK)

Deadline for abstract submission: Friday, 29 March 2019

Proposals for sessions and individual papers for the Tenth International 
Conference
on Music and Sonic Art: Practices and Theories are invited from 
academics,
independent researchers, practitioners and post-graduate students. 
Presentation
formats include academic research papers (20 minutes + 10 minutes for 
discussion);
reports on practice-based/artistic research or educational programmes 
(20 minutes +
10 minutes for discussion); and workshops, panel sessions, 
lecture-demonstrations (30
minutes + 15 minutes for discussion). The Conference committee 
encourages
presentations in which practice forms an integral part of the research. 
All proposals
will be ‘blind’ peer-reviewed. The conference language will be English.

THEME AND TOPICS:
The theme of MuSA 2019 is Collaborative Creativity / Creative 
Collaboration. The
twenty-first century has witnessed some profound transformations in the 
institutional
ethos of arts and humanities research, one of these being the sharp 
decline of the
romantic image of the lone researcher and artist, breaking through the 
frontiers of
knowledge or creating works of genius independently, and the 
simultaneous rise of a
culture of collaboration. While much has already been written about the 
value of
collaborative artistic and scholarly work, particularly in relation to 
the creative
synergies it generates, much remains to be explored with regard to the 
notion of
collaborative creativity or creative collaboration. MuSA2019 aims to 
explore the
psychological, social, institutional-political, artistic and 
philosophical issues
surrounding this notion. We invite submissions on the following, and 
other relevant
topics, in relation to collaborative creativity and creative 
collaboration in Music and
Sonic Art:

- Creative collaboration and authorship
- Creative collaboration in historical context
- Psychological mechanisms of collaborative creativity
- Creative collaboration and copyright
- Collaborative creativity and technology
- Pedagogies of creative collaboration
- Expertise and creative collaboration
- Creative collaboration and material cultures
- Social contexts of collaboration
- Artistic identities and creative collaboration
- Embodied, embedded, enacted and extended approaches to creative
collaboration

Other topics that are in line with the conference’s broad aim of 
promoting
interdisciplinary research within and across Music and Sonic Art will 
also be
considered.

As in previous MuSA conferences MuSA 2019 will continue to include the
popular, one-day event devoted to ‘Re-thinking the Musical Instrument’,
focusing on the origination, making and playing of musical instruments.
Some of the topics that will be explored during this one-day event 
include:
• The acoustical, musical, cultural, symbolic, and ritualistic qualities 
of musical
instruments and the relationships between these (theoretically) distinct 
kinds
of qualities;
• The discourses that exist in relation to musical instruments in 
different genres,
styles and traditions;
• The gestural affordances and ergonomic principles of musical 
instruments and
the musical meanings that emerge as a result of these affordances and
principles;
• Performers, improvisers and their instruments: phenomenologies of 
music
making in the context of particular kinds of musical instruments;
• Composer and instruments: the material, acoustical and expressive 
qualities of
instruments and their relationship to musical languages composers 
create;
• Relationships between creativity in performance, nature of musical
interpretation and musical instruments;
• The role of the musical instrument in the creation of musical 
identities;
We also invite proposals on any research area related to the nature and 
use of western
acoustical instruments, traditional ethnic instruments and 
digital/virtual
instruments.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:
Please submit an abstract of approximately 250-300 words as an e-mail 
attachment to
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As contributions will be ‘blind’ peer-reviewed, please do not include 
information that
might facilitate identification from the abstract. In addition, please 
include separately the name(s) of the author(s), institutional 
affiliation (if any) and short biography (approximately 100 words).

Deadline for the receipt of abstracts is Friday, 29 March 2019. 
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 8 April 2019.

CONFERENCE FEE – includes registration, lunch, coffee/tea and conference
concerts
€150 for delegates (day rate: €50), and €75 for students (day rate: €25)

If additional information is required please contact Prof. Dr. Mine 
Doğantan-Dack

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE:
Prof. Dr. Mine Doğantan-Dack (University of Cambridge) – [log in to unmask]
Prof. Dr. Christoph Seibert (HfM Karlsruhe) – [log in to unmask]
Dr. John Dack (Middlesex University, UK) – [log in to unmask]
Prof. Miroslav Spasov (Keele University, UK)
Prof. Dr. Marc Bangert (HfM Karlsruhe)
Prof. DMA Damon T. Lee (HfM Karlsruhe)
Prof. Dr. Paulo Ferreira Lopes (HS Mainz/HfM Karlsruhe)
Dr. Stefanie Steiner-Grage (HfM Karlsruhe)
Nanna Schmidt (HfM Karlsruhe)
Timothy P. Schmele (HfM Karlsruhe)
Administrative support: Gundi Rössler (HfM Karlsruhe) – [log in to unmask]

-- 
Dr Mine Dogantan-Dack
Faculty of Music
University of Cambridge
11 West Road
Cambridge CB3 9DP
www.minedogantandack.com
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