6th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval
CMMR 2009 - Auditory Display
Copenhagen, Denmark, May 18-22, 2009
BACKGROUND
The field of computer music is interdisciplinary by nature and closely related to a number of computer science and engineering areas such as information retrieval, programming, human computer interaction, digital libraries, hypermedia, artificial intelligence, acoustics, signal processing, etc...
The first CMMR gatherings mainly focused on information retrieval, programming, digital libraries, hypermedia, artificial intelligence, acoustics and signal processing. Little by little CMMR has moved towards more interdisciplinary aspects related to the role of human interaction in musical practice, perceptual and cognitive aspects linked to sound modelling and how sense or meaning can be transmitted either from isolated sounds or musical structure as a whole. All the CMMR gatherings have resulted in post symposium proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences Series (LNCS 2771, LNCS 3310, LNCS 3902, LNCS 4969), and this is also planned for the CMMR 2009.
The CMMR 2009 is organized jointly with the 15th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) and will focus on the link between auditory display, sound modelling and music information retrieval. Hence, a special emphasis will be put on concepts, methods and tools involved in the process of designing sounds in an interactive context.
CMMR 2009 invites researchers, educators, composers, performers, and others with an interest in important aspects of computer music (including modeling, retrieval, analysis, and synthesis) to come join us for a unique event.
TOPICS
Original contributions on the following (and other relevant) topics are encouraged:
- auditory perception and cognition
- psychoacoustics
- music perception and cognition
- ecological acoustics
- timbre models
- sound modeling
- user interfaces
- human computer interaction
- virtual reality interaction
- infrastructures for music
- music digital libraries modeling
- representation and language modeling
- distributed system infrastructures
- audio indexing and retrieval
- metadata
- standards
- protocols
- query languages
- advanced information retrieval
- structuring of audio data
- hypermedia
- structural computing
- collaboration on music
- computer supported cooperative work
- analysis, recognition, comparison, classification, and modeling of sound and music
- pattern recognition
- signal processing
- algoritmics
- parsing
- mining and visualizing sounds and music
- data mining
- visualization
- sound synthesis and/or composition
- synthesis models
- automated composition
- audio coding
- spatialization
IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper, demo and poster submission deadline : January 15th, 2009
- Notification of acceptance : March 1st, 2009
- Camera-ready copy : May 1st, 2009
SUBMISSIONS
Papers and posters should be submitted online at the ICAD 2009 submission page. The template required for formatting is available here (word) (latex). For other submissions, please email the CMMR chair.
All submission documents should be formatted using one of the templates that are provided here. All documents should be submitted in PDF format. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international committee. Submission implies that at least one of the contributors agrees to register and attend the conference. Registrants may present more than one submission as long as they have contributed to each. The conference registration fee must be paid prior to the deadline in 2009 for the submission to be included in the Conference Proceedings.
PAPERS
Papers are written and oral presentations of work that makes a substantial contribution to the field. Submissions may be up to 8 pages including images and references.
POSTERS
Posters are for discussing work-in-progress. Submissions may be up to 4 pages including images and references. Posters should be presented on a single A0 size sheet during the poster session.
WORKSHOPS
Workshops are a 2-3 hour forum for active collaborative learning. A typical workshop would begin with introductions and presentations of each participant's background, followed by some kind of shared activity to produce a piece of work, document or presentation for the conference at large. Workshop proposals may be up to 4 pages including title, description, and brief biographies of the presenters.
PANELS
A panel is an hour-long topical discussion between 1-5 experts with differing viewpoints on a difficult or controversial subject. Panel proposals should be up to 4 pages including title, description, and brief biographies of the presenters.
DEMO
A demo is an event of up to 1 hour duration that may be staged for a moving audience. Proposals should be up to 4 pages including title, description including a statement of relevance addressing the CMMR Topics listed above, and brief biographies of the presenters.