Leeds, United Kingdom
CALL FOR PAPERS
Forum for Innovation in Music Production and Composition (FIMPaC)
In Association with: Journal for Music, Technology and Education
www.intellectbooks.co.uk
Thursday 20 and Friday 21 May 2010
The Forum for Innovation in Music Production and Composition takes place at Leeds College of Music from Thursday 20th to Friday 21st May 2010. FIMPaC is an annual event focusing on research and practice related to innovations in Music Production and Composition. This year’s event is in association with the Journal for Music, Technology and Education. FIMPaC’s goal is to bring together composers, producers, music industry representatives, academics, educators and students to discuss their practice, research and industry experiences; FIMPaC encourages participants and delegates that represent the commercial music industry and academia.
Keynote Speakers
Jazzie B, founder of the collective Soul II Soul is our Keynote for 20th May and will open the conference. He will discuss his experiences within the Commercial Music Industry.
David Toop will open the second day of the conference and address connections between commercial and experimental music and whether we can sustain notions of their independence. David will also be performing in the evening.
Call for Papers
This year’s call for papers is in association with the Journal for Music, Technology and Education. Proposers are asked to indicate on their submission if they would like their work to be considered for publication in a forthcoming issue of the journal.
The deadline for the submission of proposals is 22nd March 2010. Presentations that address innovation in compositional practice and music production are welcome (for example, focus on compositional/production process, applications of music technology, pedagogy, dissemination, analysis or critical studies). While proposals are invited on any area of composition/production research and practice from within any discipline/genre (commercial, popular, experimental, mixed media, electronica, electroacoustic, acousmatic etc…) preference will be given to topics that address cross-disciplinary approaches that inform new insights. While not intending to be an exhaustive list, below are areas that you may wish to consider:
· Is there an interdependence of mainstream and experimental music?
· Electronic music and virtuosity
· Composition and its reception
· Innovation and music composition
· Innovation and music production
· Composing for media
· Commercial music production and pedagogy
· Popular music composition and pedagogy
· Music composition/production and post-modernity
Individual presentations should be no more than twenty minutes in duration and proposals should include the following details: name(s) of authors; name(s) of presenters; email address; name of institution or professional body (if applicable).
Proposals should take the form of a title followed by an abstract of not more than 200 words. Proposals may also include up to two minutes of audio or audiovisual clips. The deadline for submissions is Monday 22nd March 2010, and decisions will be notified shortly after this date.
Any queries about a proposal should be directed to the 2010 Conference Organiser: Dr Dale Perkins by emailing FIMPaC@lcm.ac.uk.
All abstracts should be uploaded to ftp://researchftp.lcm.ac.uk using the username and password provided below. Abstracts must be formatted as rtf documents and you may include up to 2-minutes of audio examples which are clearly labelled (formatted as mp3). All files must be zipped as one file and named as follows: surname_forename_FIMPaC2010. (The ftp site has been tested with both ‘FireFTP’ – a plugin for FireFox and ClassicFTP. Both are available as free downloads.
Username: lcmlcmftp
Password: LCMmus1c
If you wish to apply for a receipt for materials uploaded, please email FIMPAC@lcm.ac.uk with surname_forname_FIMPaC2010 in the Header.
For more information and to make a booking for the conference go to:
http://www.lcm.ac.uk/research-conference/fimpac.htm
Queries about attending FIMPaC 2010 should be addressed to our Events Manager: Louise Wood L.wood@lcm.ac.uk
Dr Dale Perkins
FIMPaC@lcm.ac.uk