*** apologies for multiple copies of this email *** ==================================================== ECMusic: 1st Workshop on Evolutionary Music. To be held in conjunction with the IEEE CEC 2011 New Orleans, June 5, 2011 http://www.dei.estg.ipleiria.pt/evolutionary-music/ (A special issue will be organized with selected papers from the Workshop) ==================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Music provides a perfect area of research for Evolutionary Computation and New Orleans is a place where a specific workshop on the topic is ideally suited. A number of problems are present and still open to new proposals, such as: * Generative Music Composition. * Evolutionary Music Modeling. * Rhythmic structure and Key analysis. * Music Transcription. * Music Improvisation. * Music Genre classification. * Music mood analysis. * Optimization of Music Performance. * Sound synthesis. * Machine learning methods for audio content analysis . * Automatic tagging of audio signals. * Content-based audio retrieval. * Music information retrieval. * Music recommendation. * User interfaces for music management and retrieval. * Intelligent audio effects. * Audio restoration. * Etc. The workshop aims particularly at providing a place where the research is not only shown but also performed. Authors will thus be encouraged to send both regular papers describing new approaches and results, along with audio records allowing to appreciate the quality of the works. PAPER SUBMISSION: Please submit original research results papers not published or submitted for publication in other forums. All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality and quality. Electronic submissions can be done via EasyChair at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecmusic11 Manuscripts should be in PDF format and must follow the IEEE CEC 2011 formatting guidelines, available at: http://www.cec2011.org/submission.htm A 2-page abstract must be prepared and submitted electronically. This will be reviewed by an international scientific committee. Upon acceptance, a full paper (up to 8 pages) must be prepared. Accepted papers will be included in a CD compilation together with audio files submitted by authors to demonstrate the usefulness of the techniques proposed. Selected papers will be invited for submitting extended versions of their work to a special issue of a high quality journal to be announced. PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be expanded) * Carlos Cotta Porras. University of Málaga. Spain. * Francisco Fernández de Vega. University of Extremadura, Spain. * Evelyne Lutton, INRIA, France. * Eduardo R. Miranda, Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR), University of Plymouth, UK. * Ken Sharman, Ploytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. * Gustavo Reis, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal. IMPORTANT DATES: April 8, 2011 Reception of extended abstract April 12, 2011 Early acceptances April 15, 2011 CEC Early registration deadline May 23, 2011 Final version of papers for workshop June 5, 2011 Workshop Workshop Co-Chairs: * Francisco Fernández de Vega, University of Extremadura. * Carlos Cotta Porras, University of Malaga. Web Management: * Gustavo Reis, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria.