Call for Contribution

Conference Theme: Sound as Score

This year’s conference will focus on audio scores and its aesthetic and pychoacoustic impact and aims to foster innovative advancements and a lively and interdisciplinary dialog.

Topics under this theme include:

• 1. Musical Notation: audio scores, technical tools for audio scores
• 2. Musicology, Aesthetics and Analysis: analysis of contemporary notation with a focus on audio scores, semiotics of notation, ontologies of notation, critical aesthetic and sociological studies
• 3. Psychological and Musical acoustic: psychoacoustics in notation
• 4. Listening and Teaching: listening guides

Suggested Topics for Contributions:

We encourage submissions on topics such as:

• 1. Musical notation
  • Audio scores
  • Technical tools for audio scores
  • Computer applications for music notation
  • Notation and mobile devices
  • Online tools for music notation
  • Notation in electronic and electroacoustic music
  • Non visual notation systems
  • Non Western or ancient music transcription

• 2. Musicology, Aesthetics and Analysis
  • Analysis of contemporary notation with a focus on audio scores
  • Semiotics of notation
  • Ontologies of notation
  • Ideological aspects of notation
  • Notation, aesthetics and cognition
  • Critical aesthetic and sociological studies
  • Notation and listening experiences

• 3. Psychological and Musical acoustic:
  • Psychoacoustics in notation
  • Virtualisation of acoustic spaces
  • Physical modeling
  • Psychoacoustics in listening experience

• 4. Listening and Teaching
  • Listening guides
  • Community music
  • Music mediation
  • Live and offline annotation
  • Notation for music pedagogy