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>From Carola Boehm, at the University of Glasgow. Please excuse any cross postings. -------- Original Message -------- =================== Announcement: Workshops at ICMC 2000 http://www.icmc2000.org/ This year, the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) will take place in Berlin, 27.8-1.9 2000. With its motto "Gateways to Creativity," ICMC 2000 underscores the creative use of technological developments in the arts and the emergence of a new generation of "human-oriented" technologies. A special feature of ICMC 2000 will be the 11 workshops on topics from aesthetics and cognition research to a number of important tools and techniques in sound design and computer assisted music creation. There will be nine short workshops lasting half a day and two long workshops lasting 3 days each. Registration will be possible both on an individual workhop basis and for a workshop group for the entire duration of the event. The workshops topics are at a glance: - Rhizome Café: Colliding with Rainforest (Networked Digital Sound in David Tudor's Rainforest) - Soundscape Composition and Multichannel Audio Diffusion - Computer music studies, aesthetics and intercultural issues - Cognition and Perception of Computer Music: Principles and Issues - Notation and Music Information Retrieval in the Computer Age - Computer Music Programming for the Web with JSyn and JMSL - Networked Realtime Sound and Graphics Synthesis with SuperCollider - Collaborative Composition for String Instruments and Live Electronics - Spatialization Techniques with Multichannel Audio - Sensors for Interactive Music Performance - Composing with Algorithmic Processes In addition, four panel discussions partly with a strongly applied "workshop" character will take place during the ICMC itself. The topics are: -Aesthetics of Computer Music -Analysis-Synthesis Techniques -Content Retrieval of Music -Digital Audio Effects We invite students, practicing artists and researchers from all related fields to participate. For further details and registration look from 18.5.2000 onwards at http://www.icmc2000.org/ Alastair Dunning Arts and Humanities Data Service 75-79 York Road (8th Floor) LONDON SE1 7AW 0207 928 7848 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%