Electroacoustic Music Studies - call for papers

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Calendar Event: October 19, 2005 - October 22, 2005

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Call for papers

Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS)
International Conference Series

EMS05 - Electroacoustic Music Studies.
A century of innovation involving sound and technology
Resources, Discourse, Analytical Tools

Scientific Committee

Marc BATTIER (MINT-OMF)
Joel CHADABE (EMF)
Philippe DEPALLE (McGill University)
Leigh LANDY (MTI - De Montfort University)
Stephen McADAMS (CIRMMT/ McGill University)
Rosemary MOUNTAIN (Hexagram/Concordia)
Philippe DEPALLE (CIRMMT)
Jean PICHE (CCIRMT/UdeM)
Daniel TERUGGI (INA/GRM)
Marcelo M. WANDERLEY (CIRMMT/ McGill University)

Time and place: 19-22 October, 2005 - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

The EMS conference is organized every two years through the initiative of
the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network, an international team which
aims to encourage reflection on the better understanding of
electroacoustic music and its genesis, appearance and development over the
span of a century. The organizers are all engaged in the key areas of
debate and actively seeking the development of solutions.

The first conference, in October 2003, was a result of the initiatives of
DeMontfort University (UK), the University of Paris-Sorbonne (France), and
INA/GRM (France). It took place at the Georges-Pompidou Centre in Paris,
within the auspices of IRCAM's Résonances 2003 festival. Selected papers
were published in issue 9/1 of Organised Sound.

Organization of the EMS-05 conference

Concordia University (Canada)
De Montfort University (GB)
Electronic Music Foundation (USA)
INA/GRM (France)
McGill University and CIRMMT (Canada)
Universite de Montreal (Canada)
Universite de Paris-Sorbonne (France)

Electroacoustic Music Studies Network

EARS (Leigh Landy, ElectroAcoustic Resource Site,
MTI Research Group, De Montfort University)
INA/GRM (Daniel Teruggi)
MINT (Marc Battier, Musicologie, informatique et
nouvelles technologies, OMF), Universite de
Paris-Sorbonne


Deadline for receipt of proposals (abstracts and CVs of contributors):
Tuesday March 1, 2005

The special theme of EMS-05 is:

Electroacoustic Music Studies - Sound in Multimedia Contexts

From the advent of the first electric instruments, the phonograph, radio,
telephone, and subsequent electronic and digital inventions, the
approaches to technologies relevant to the art of sound have been limited
only by the imagination of the musician. In recent years, there seems to
have been a proliferation of studies relating to music incorporating these
technologies. However, the investigation of such a varied musical
repertoire raises a number of issues that the EMS conferences wish to
examine. The themes of the conference therefore emphasize questions of
resources, discourse, and analytical tools relevant to electroacoustic
musics.

1) Sources and resources
- What types of materials are being or should be documented?
- How does one create, expand, preserve and offer access to collections?
- What opportunities exist for exchange and collaboration?
- How can we help make the electroacoustic music repertoire more
accessible?

2) Discourse / analysis of electroacoustic musics
- What types of discourse are relevant to electroacoustic works?
- Which forms of representation and which approaches to analysis are useful?
- Which analytical methods are currently being developed?
- How can one adapt existent analytical methods of music to
electroacoustic works, many of which involve no prescriptive notation?
- How can we further develop the field of study of electroacoustic musics?

3) Analytical tools
- How are analytical tools being produced and disseminated in the
community?
- What means are available for communicating the sonic form through
symbolic and graphic representations?
- Does the study of electroacoustic musics require specifically-designed
tools or can it take advantage of methods conceived for other musics?

4) Taxonomy, terminology, and aesthetic diversity
- What systems of classification are in use or should be developed?
- How can we become more consistent in our use of terminology in a field
as dynamic as electroacoustic music?
- Are there aesthetic questions that are specific to electroacoustic
music?

Spoken presentations

Proposals for spoken presentations should be submitted in the form of an
extended abstract (minimum 2 pages) accompanied by a detailed C.V. and
list of publications. The abstract should be ready for publication if the
proposal is accepted. The duration of each paper will be 30 minutes (not
including the question period). The papers may be given in English or
French. It is anticipated that simultaneous translation will be provided.
Multimedia support will be provided in the form of video projector (for
laptops), overhead projector, CD player, and sound system. A programme
containing the paper abstracts will be distributed.

Posters

Proposals for poster sessions are also invited; selected posters will be
presented in the conference area at McGill University. The deadline for
poster proposal submissions is the same as that for paper submissions.

Dates
19 October, 2005 - Opening of EMS-05 at the University of Montreal
20-22 October, 2005 - Conference sessions (McGill University) and concerts
(Concordia University)

Guidelines for submissions

Deadline for receipt of proposals (abstracts and CVs of contributors):
Tuesday March 1, 2005

Submissions are to be made electronically. Send abstract (in French or
English, 2 pages maximum) + 1 detailed CV + a list of publications to the
following e-mail address: ems05-papers@music.mcgill.ca.

Please ensure that your name, institutional / organizational affiliation
(if any), contact address, telephone, and preferred e-mail address are
included on the abstract. If your proposal is accepted, you will need to
submit a brief 15-line biographical note to insert into the conference
programme.

Publication

A selection of the papers will be published in Organised Sound (Cambridge
University Press) in 2006.

EMS-05 Website
http://ems05.musique.umontreal.ca/index.html (bilingual call)

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Marc Battier
http;//www.omf.paris4.sorbonne.fr/MINT