CFP: 3rd Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals (Graz, Austria)

3RD WORKSHOP ON LEARNING THE SEMANTICS OF AUDIO SIGNALS (LSAS) 2009

SAMT 2009 CONFERENCE, GRAZ, AUSTRIA

4 DECEMBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

http://lsas2009.dke-research.de

The Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals (LSAS) focuses especially on researchers that are working on semantics, description, representation and understanding of music with the goal to intensify the exchange of ideas between the different research communities involved, to provide an overview of current activities in this area and to point out connections between them. Therefore, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following aspects with respect to music

information retrieval systems:

- Audio signal processing and feature extraction

- Content-based audio retrieval

- Music perception, cognition, affect and emotions

- Music structure analysis

- Semantic audio description and analysis

- Ontologies for music and sound description

- Standards for audio content description

- Machine learning methods for feature extraction and mapping

- Personalization of music retrieval systems

While our main focus is on music data, we are also interested on work related to other audio data such as speech.

Important dates:

- Deadline for paper submission: September 7, 2009

- Notification of acceptance: September 21, 2009

- Camera-ready paper submission: October 12, 2009

For the full Call For Papers and further information on the workshop, please visit http://lsas2009.dke-research.de

CFP: 2nd Intl Conf on Music Communication Science (Sydney)

2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MUSIC COMMUNICATION SCIENCE (ICoMCS2)
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
3 - 4 DECEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/ICoMusic09/index.html

The 2nd International Conference on Music Communication Science (ICoMCS2) will bring together people interested in an interdisciplinary understanding or application of music cognition, perception, action, performance, and communication. ICoMCS2 follows the successful inaugural conference held in 2007 (http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/ICoMusic/program.html) and is organised jointly by the Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/amps/index.htm) and HCSNet the ARC Network in Human Communication Science (http://www.hcsnet.edu.au).

ICoMCS2 will be held in Sydney during the week-long HCSNet SummerFest (http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest09) with HCSNet summer school courses linked to ICoMCS2.

ICoMCS2 will attract people from all walks of research and performance life, including musicologists, psychologists, educators, linguists, ethnomusicologists, composers, engineers, computer scientists, speech scientists, physicists, philosophers and performance artists.

Papers reporting research concerning music communication in its various forms are invited. Broad topic areas include music performance, music perception, music cognition, intermodal processes, music information retrieval, audio-visual search and retrieval, music and language, evolutionary accounts of music and speech, generative systems, amusia, dystonia, music education, ethnomusicology, music therapy, sonification, spatialization and 3D audio, musical interfaces, digital media, interactive arts, psychophysics, and psychoacoustics.

We also encourage submissions for performance and installation sessions. Ensembles and individuals with performance programs of less than 10 minutes are invited to submit an abstract or full paper of their work.

Submissions will be accepted in two streams. You may submit either a full (four page) paper or an abstract of a paper for presentation. Full papers will be reviewed by the international scientific program committee and clearly identified separately in the conference proceedings. Papers and symposium proposals with an interdisciplinary theme are welcome; papers from
student researchers are strongly encouraged.

ICoMCS2 IMPORTANT DATES 2009
Monday, July 13: Submission of abstract, symposium proposal or full paper for review
Monday, August 24: Notification of Acceptance
Monday, September 21: Registrations open, camera ready versions (for full papers) due
Mon-Fri 30 Nov-4 Dec: HCSNet SummerFest including Summer Schools
Thurs-Fri 3-4 Dec: ICoMCS2 (during HCSNet SummerFest)

CONFERENCE LOCATION
The conference will be held at the Kensington campus of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia() during the southern
summer from Thursday 3 to Friday 4 December 2009.

WEB SITE
For all information relating to the conference, including details of
submission formats, go to the ICoMCS2 web site
http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/ICoMusic09/index.html.

We hope to see you at ICoMCS2 December 3-4 in Sydney! Best wishes,

Kate Stevens, Emery Schubert, and the ICoMCS2 Organising Committee

CFP: CIM10 Nature versus Culture (Sheffield)

CIM10 NATURE VERSUS CULTURE
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, UK
21 - 24 JULY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Conferences on Interdisciplinary Musicology promote collaborations between sciences and humanities, between theory and practice, as well as interdisciplinary combinations that are new, unusual, creative, or otherwise especially promising. CIM10 will focus on the relationship between nature and culture in musical behaviour, thinking and sound.

With the influence of evolutionary theory, and the interpenetration of the approaches and methods of the sciences and arts, researchers from many different fields have become interested in how culture and biology shape musical phenomena. To what extent is the music that gets made (its materials and structure) a direct product of physical and biological properties? How is the experience of music governed by biological mechanisms and cultural processes?

The conference aims to bring together representatives of the arts and humanities, the sciences, and musical practice who are involved in research on culture and nature in music. Researchers from all relevant disciplines are invited to contribute theoretical, empirical and computational studies.

The following topic areas illustrate the scope of the conference theme:

• Music’s evolutionary origins
• Cross-cultural comparison of musical phenomena
• Linguistic influences on music cognition
• How culture and biology shape the phenomenal experience of musical expectation
• Biological and cultural influences on the experience of emotions with music
• Relationship between emotional experience with music and emotions in daily life
• Development of musical skills
• Musical universals and musical specializations
• Cognitive and physical constraints shaping musical materials and compositional practices

Submissions are encouraged that are related to these sub-areas or the general theme of nature versus culture

Submission details:
In keeping with the aim of CIM to promote interaction between disciplines, each submission must have at least two authors who represent different disciplines. Extended abstracts should be structured in the following seven headlines:

1. Background in the first discipline
2. Background in the second discipline
3. Aims
4. Main Contribution
5. Implications for musical practice
6. Implications for musicological interdisciplinarity
7. References

In empirical and computational contributions, the “main contribution” should include a summary of method and results. Each submitted abstract should be followed by a short biography (CV) of the (first) two authors. The whole file should not exceed 1000 words, including all headings, names of authors, their affiliations, email addresses and biographies. The preferred format of the presentation (talk or poster) should also be indicated. All submissions must address the conference theme. Abstracts should be submitted in English either as plain text or in an attached
document (MS Word). They will be reviewed anonymously by a panel of international experts.

Deadline: 15th of September 2009

E-mail submissions to: CIM10@sheffield.ac.uk

Further information from: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cim10/index.html

CIM10 is directed by:
Dr Nicola Dibben, and Dr Renee Timmers, Department of Music, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

CIM10 is presented in collaboration with the European Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), and the Society for Education, Psychology and Music Research (SEMPRE). See: www.sheffield.ac.uk/cim10/