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Heretical Sound Synthesis mini-symposium

Posted: December 21st, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Heretical Sound Synthesis mini-symposium

The University of the Arts Helsinki, Sibelius Academy, Centre for Music & Technology, May 16th to 17th, 2019

The HSS mini-symposium invites abstracts and proposals for papers and contributions, including accounts of artistic projects, on or around the subject of heretical sound synthesis. Ideally, proposals will include a demonstration component, which can be live or recorded. Live demonstrations must be safe.

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Imagine the Future! (IASA 2019 conference)

Posted: December 21st, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Imagine the Future! (IASA 2019 conference)

The Programme Committee for the IASA 2019 conference welcomes proposals representing a broad palette of archival and personal interests which are distinguished by their focus on sound and audiovisual documents. Subject areas might include musical recordings; historic, literary, folkloric, and ethnological sound documents; theatre productions; oral history interviews; news and broadcast materials; bio-acoustics; environmental and medical sounds; linguistic and dialect recordings; as well as recordings for forensic purposes. This year, IASA encourages presenters to envision the future of audiovisual content and to address concerns of interest for those who create, use, manage, and preserve such material.
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3nd International Conference on Sound, Silence, Image and Technology

Posted: December 14th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on 3nd International Conference on Sound, Silence, Image and Technology

Mataró (Barcelona), 3, 4, 5 of July 2019.

In collaboration with “La Creación musical en la Banda Sonora” (Musical Creation in the Soundtrack) the call has the aim to reflect about the role of music and sound in the audiovisual media. With an open and markedly multidisciplinary approach, the philosophy of this meeting is to encourage the confluence of points of view of theoretical paradigms and analytical models. Read the rest of this entry »


Sound in Struggle: Audible Resistances

Posted: December 14th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Sound in Struggle: Audible Resistances

Columbia Music Scholarship Conference, Columbia University March 2019

Date: Saturday, March 30, 2019
Location: Columbia University in the City of New York.

The annual Columbia Music Scholarship Conference [CMSC] will be held at Columbia University in the City of New York on Saturday, March 30, 2019. We are pleased to announce that the keynote speaker will be Alex E. Chávez, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame.
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Perspectives on Music Production – Mastering in Music – Routledge

Posted: December 5th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Perspectives on Music Production – Mastering in Music – Routledge

Call for Chapters

Extended Deadline for proposals: 5th January 2019

In the spirit of the Perspectives On Music Production series, Mastering in Music follows on from Mixing Music (2017), Producing Music (early 2019) and several monographs in the field – to be announced.

Mastering in Music contains several chapters presented at the Audio Engineering Society UK’s Mastering Conference held in London in September 2018. In addition to this we’re disseminating this call for contributions and welcome abstracts on topics relating to audio mastering: the scope is detailed below: Read the rest of this entry »


Perspectives on Music Production – Exploiting Music – Routledge

Posted: December 5th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Perspectives on Music Production – Exploiting Music – Routledge

Call for Chapters

Deadline for proposals: 26 April 2019

In the spirit of the Perspectives On Music Production series, Exploiting Music will follow on from Mixing Music (2017), Producing Music (early 2019), Gender In Music Production (2020) and several monographs in the field.

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Ethnomusicology Review

Posted: December 1st, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Ethnomusicology Review

Ethnomusicology Review is now accepting submissions for Volume 22, scheduled for publication in Fall 2019. Starting as Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology (PRE) in 1984, Ethnomusicology Review is a refereed journal managed by UCLA graduate students and a faculty advisory board. We maintain an extensive editorial board and publish interdisciplinary music research in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, and other languages on a case-by-case basis.

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