Call for proposals: Korea Electro-Acoustic Music Society annual conference

US composer Margaret Helmuth will be the keynote speaker at the event. The event was formed to promote active research and discussion on electro-acoustic music and will be held alongside the Seoul International Computer Music Festival.

To be considered at KEAMSAC, artists should submit the following:

• An abstract or proposal (maximum of 2 000 characters including spaces).
• A curriculum vitae in PDF.

All proposals will be screened by the programme committee and will be selected solely based on the quality of the research and topic. All the documents should be submitted via email to emille@keams.org.

The submission deadline is 30 June.

Successful applicants will be notified on 31 July and selected papers from the conference will be published in Vol.19 of the Emille journal.

Categories

For the KEAMS conference, the following topics will be included, but not limited to:

• Creative encounters between music and science.
• Multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary research (co-authors are acceptable).
• Systematic musicology: Computational musicology and computational music theory.
• Analysis of electronic and computer-based music.
• Sound synthesis.
• Music psychology.
• Instrumentation.
• Development of electronically extended musical instruments.
• Music software engineering.
• Artificial musical intelligence.
• Computer-aided composition/analysis.
• Automatic composition.
• Aesthetics

Language

• Conference presentation: English.
• Conference article: English or Korean.
• Journal article: English or Korean.

Session formats

Paper presentations

• Each session consists of three to four presentations.
• Each paper will be presented in person for about 25 minutes followed by a five-minute discussion.
• Video conferencing over the Internet may situationally be available.

Keynote presentation

• A keynote speaker will be given 50 minutes to address, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.

Workshops

• The length of each session will be around 90 minutes.
• Each workshop consists of one to three sessions in one to three days.

Fees and accommodation

The registration and publication fee will be waived, and accommodation will also be provided to presenters during the session. Students and non-experts in the fields mentioned above can submit proposals for the conference and the Emille journal.

“We welcome any ideas for electro-acoustic music research from you, and believe them to be precious assets for the conference and the journal,” a statement reads.

View the original call here.