Call for Submissions: Journal SEAMUS Vol. 21, No. 1

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Call for submissions:

Journal SEAMUS invites submissions for Vol. 21, No. 1 of the journal.

Journal SEAMUS is the official publication of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States. The Society is devoted to the support, study, and development of electro-acoustic music.

For Vol. 21, No.1, we are making an open call to all facets pertinent to electro-acoustic music. This is includes, for example, compositional techniques, technical topics, signal processing and sound synthesis, analysis, historical studies, musicology, cultural studies, aesthetics, acoustics, interviews, new interfaces, and musical mathematics. The editors encourage contributions from all members of the electro-acoustic music community, including composers, theorists, musicologists, technologists, engineers, scientists, and aestheticians. Students are encouraged to submit articles.

A special section we will add to forthcoming issues starting with Vol. 20, No. 2 is the “Tips and Tricks” section in Journal SEAMUS. This section will provide information for our community with the latest (and old alike!) tricks, need-to-knows, tutorials, and other “tricks of the trade” such as compositional strategies, programming tips, hacks, DSP topics, hardware, recording tips, miking techniques, performance must-knows, and the like.

Manuscripts must be submitted electronically. Main articles generally are of 2,000 to 6,000 words. Microsoft Word is the preferred format; however, files can also be saved in RTF format with an accompanying PDF version. Manuscripts should be written according to the Chicago Manual of Style. Footnotes should be numbered consecutively and gathered at the end of the manuscript. Graphs, charts, and musical examples should be sent as separate attachments for ease of layout. Please include a brief biography and photograph (60 words or less).

Articles in electronic format should be submitted to the Managing Editor Iroro Orife at iroro@defchild.com <mailto:iroro@defchild.com>. For announcements/reviews of books, music, and other publications please contact Assistant Editor for Publications Brent Reidy at brent.c.reidy@gmail.com <mailto:brent.c.reidy@gmail.com>. For event related articles direct email to Assistant Editor for Events Rachel Foote at foote.rachel@gmail.com <mailto:foote.rachel@gmail.com>. Items for “Tips and Tricks” should be sent to Editor Tae Hong Park at park@tulane.edu <mailto:park@tulane.edu>.

Articles must be received no later than September 1, 2009 for possible inclusion in this edition; articles received after that time may be considered for future editions. Thank you very much.

Sincerely,
Tae Hong Park

Editor, Journal SEAMUS

Call: CEMC/EMSAN Day 2009

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ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


CEMC/EMSAN Day Colloquium
28 octobre 2009, MusicAcoustica Festival, Beijing

EMSAN – International Network of Electroacoustic Music Studies in East Asia

For the second consecutive year, an EMSAN colloquium will be organised in collaboration with CEMC and the Musicacoustica festival.
This year, the EMSAN/CEMC Day will revolve around two themes:

Theme 1
Visions of the Future of Electroacoustic Music in Asia

How will Electroacoustic Music evolve in Asia?
Which trends, which hopes, which efforts are carried out by composers, performers, educators and institutions?
How is the future different from what can be expected in other parts of the world?
How does the strong and ancient cultural past of Asia plays a role in shaping the future?

The presentations will discuss practical, theoretical or esthetical aspects of these visions of the future. They will later be published in the online Proceedings of the EMSAN/CEMC Day.

Theme 2
Panel discussion: Projects of Publications on Electroacoustic Music in Asia

EMSAN has been asked to supervise two publication projects. The first will be a book published in English in the United States by Electronic Music Foundation. The second will be an issue of a professional journal and will also be in English.

Comprehensive texts on the growth and the trends of Electroacoustic Music in Asia would be extremely important: although the development of this music in other parts of the world has been rather well documented (namely Europe and North America), little has been written on Asian Electroacoustic Music.

This book will gather chapters relative to each participant country. Two themes are envisioned: 1) An historical account of the development of Electroacoustic Music in each country of region, and 2) questions of esthetics, musical thought and musical techniques relevant to each country or region. The chapters will be published in English but could also be included in publications in their original languages. If necessary, they could be written in their original language before being provided to Electronic Music Foundation in English.

Each country or region will have a correspondant who will be responsible for the local contributions. It is expected that the editorial structure will be defined during the meeting. The book is expected to appear in 2012 in the EMS Media book series of Electronic Music Foundation (New York).

The contributions for the professional journal will be of a different nature. The will focus on particular issues such as musical works, composers or specific musical trends. Care will be taken to balance the contributions from the different countries and regions.

Organisation

The EMSAN/CEMC Day colloquium will take place during the Musicacoustica Festival week (26-30 Octobre 2009), Central Conservatory, Beijing, China.

Participation is free. To present a paper, please send a short abstract to:
marc.battier@paris-sorbonne.fr (in English)
Also, send a photo and your short bio to:
xinyuan_yuanyuan@yahoo.com.cn

Please send us your proposal before Septembre 20  so that we can include it in the Festival brochure. Thank you.

For information on the Musicacoustica Festival, please write to:
mungozhangruibo@gmail.com
or
xinyuan_yuanyuan@yahoo.com.cn

We are looking forward to seeing you in Beijing for the Festival and the EMSAN/CEMC Day colloquium.

ZHANG Xiaofu 张小夫 and Marc BATTIER

Links:
http://www.musicacoustica.cn/
http://cemc.ccom.edu.cn/
http://omf.paris-sorbonne.fr/EMSAN/

CMJ Special Issue on HCI — Call for Submissions

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Computer Music Journal (MIT Press) is calling for submissions for a special issue on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in music, guest edited by Michael Gurevich of the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast.

The availability of powerful, low-cost sensors and embedded hardware that can control real-time audio has facilitated the rapid growth of digital computer interfaces used in music performance. The New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference is already coming up on its 10th year since its humble beginning as a workshop within the 2001 CHI conference. NIME has become a discipline in its own right, one whose enthusiastic growth has rendered the CHI platform an inadequate container; however, as a primarily practice-led discipline NIME has as great a potential as ever to inform, and be informed by, HCI.

Accordingly, this issue will step back and view interactive music performance through the lens of HCI. Submissions should report on original research in HCI or allied disciplines (design, cognitive psychology, mechanical engineering, etc.) that is materially relevant to computer music, or vice versa. Papers should make this connection explicit, and therefore co-authored submissions between HCI and computer music researchers or practitioners are particularly encouraged.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

-novel interaction techniques
-design theory or frameworks
-human performance
-evaluation methods
-tangible representations of musical parameters
-audience cognition of interactive performance
-design case studies
-performers’ or composers’ reports that relate to HCI

Submissions that document a design, performance or composition must clearly advance a theory that is applicable to wider practice.

Submissions will be subject to peer review and should be received by
September 30, 2009.

Refer to the manuscript guidelines at
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/sub/comj