The National University of Lanús – UNLa (Argentina) presents the 10 th Edition of the International and Multimedia Festival “Sonoimágenes” that will take place in Buenos Aires on October 19th – 21st  2010.

Extended deadline June 15th (postmarked)

“Sonoimágenes” calls for works to be considered for the 2010 edition, that should fit into one of the following Categories:

a. Acousmatic works: sound art compositions for recorded media alone, for two, four, eight or 5.1 channels. Acousmatic compositions on DVD 5.1 are very specially welcome for this edition.

b. Audiovisual compositions: audiovisual works on media where sound and image narratives should have equal relevance or importance

c. Live Performances involving technology: such as mixed works with acoustic instrument(s) or electroacoustic devices and recorded media, interactive mixed works, real time processing or live electronics, live electroacoustic improvisation, or any of those plus video, in all cases with a maximum of two performers.

All works must have a duration between four minutes (minimum) and 12 minutes (maximum) and must have been created after January 2004.

More information about the “Sonoimágenes” Festivals and about this call, can be found at http://www.sonoimagenes.net46.net/

Inquires may be sent by email to: sonoimagenes@yahoo.com.ar

ISCM World New Music Days 2011 within the 26th Music Biennale Zagreb 2011 in Croatia from 7 to 17 April
A half-century anniversary – 50 years of Music Biennale Zagreb
  Deadline for submissions is August 1, 2010
Theme: Mirabilia Memorabilia
With year 2011, New music enters into its ninth decade of slow, but sure "conquest" of new areas and new countries, and marks 90 years of gaining new friends and admirers. Although it "grew-up" and got considerably older in these 90 years, we still experience it as young and challenging, new and fresh, worthy of the effort we make in trying to make it an integral part of human activities, needs and life, worthy of the faith we have in it, all the time helping it to "grow" even more…
Invitation and Call for Works:
ISCM members as well as music publishers and individual artists are encouraged to submit their works according to the detailed instructions and criteria described in the call for works.
Music publishers and individual artists can pay €50 entry fee, for each work by using the online payment system PayPal

Call for Papers

In the recent years, musical signal processing applications have greatly expanded the palette of artistic expression by creating a myriad of new possibilities for music and sound creation and manipulation, as well as music listening. Home recording studios have greatly benefited, as virtually all of the tools needed for music production are now available as inexpensive software. In addition to generating abstract “electronic” sounds, modern synthesis techniques can convincingly simulate many wind, string and percussion instruments, and work on the singing voice is generating promising results. Artificial reverberation, pitch shifting, equalization, dynamic range compression, and other audio signal processing techniques in turn have enabled specialized manipulation of recorded and synthetic sounds for artistic as well as fixative purposes. Sophisticated compression, noise canceling, equalization, and bass enhancement algorithms can provide noise-free, high-quality audio for portable music players.

The ongoing pursuit for both creative and realistic sounds and processing nowadays includes real-time sound synthesis and control, spatial sound, and realistic emulation of analog and vintage effects devices and synthesizers, especially with strongly nonlinear and time-varying behavior. The aim of this special issue is to present current research advances in real-time musical signal processing applications. Prospective papers should be unpublished, and present novel, fundamental research offering innovative contributions from a methodological or an application perspective. The expected scope of manuscripts for this special issue includes, but is not limited to:

• Sound synthesis techniques and synthesis control
• Musical instrument and singing voice synthesis
• Equalization and filtering, dynamic range compression, delay and distortion algorithms
• Virtual analog and vintage audio effects
• Reverberation synthesis, measurement and perception
• Analysis of musical instrument sounds for real-time synthesis
• Performance gesture measurement, analysis and synthesis
• Active noise control in portable music players
• Microphone and loudspeaker arrays
• Bandwidth expansion and bass enhancement
• Music loudness estimation
• Synthesis and computer music languages
• Audio coding
• Hardware and software implementations

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due	September 15, 2010
First Round of Reviews	December 15, 2010
Publication Date	March 15, 2011