Fwd: 2nd CFP - ACM Computers in Entertainment - Special Issue on MuMe

2nd Call for Papers — ACM Computers in Entertainment — Special Issue on Musical Metacreation

Musical Metacreation (MuMe) is an emerging term describing the body of research concerned with the automation of any or all aspects of musical creativity. It looks to bring together and build upon existing academic fields such as algorithmic composition, generative music, machine musicianship and live algorithms. It is understood as a branch of computational creativity, the study of autonomous systems that produce outputs that, if a human were to have produced them, would be deemed creative. It involves a broad community across research, practice and industry, with a growing body of literature that shows the automation of creative processes to be an active reality, not a distant research objective. The consolidation of these various strands of research in an active community is timely, as creative music software flourishes, creative digital music practice becomes ever more nuanced and innovative, and big-data and artificial intelligence expand their reach into a growing number of areas of human activity, the creative arts being no exception. These developments are set against a backdrop of philosophical enquiry into how the automation of creativity sheds light on human creativity and the possibility of artificial creativity.

Emerging trends in current research include: an increased awareness of HCI techniques in studying and improving computationally creative systems; advances in the automation of evaluation and conceptual representation in computationally creative systems; deep learning; the weaving together of big-data services and web-technologies into collaborative and open-ended frameworks for computational creativity; automating the composition of longer temporal structures and less traditional aspects of musical creativity such as timbre. The purpose of this special issue is to provide an update on these aspects and more as the field becomes increasingly applied and practiced.

This special issue of ACM Computers in Entertainment, associate-edited by Dr. Shlomo Dubnov (University of California in San Diego) and guest-edited by Dr Oliver Bown (Design Lab, University of Sydney), Dr Philippe Pasquier (SIAT, Simon Fraser University) and Dr Arne Eigenfeldt (SCA, Simon Fraser University), invites contributions of substantial research in any area relevant to musical metacreation.

We welcome papers on any of the following themes:

Representation and Algorithms for MuMe

• Novel representations of musical information

• Advances or applications of AI, machine learning, and statistical techniques for generative music

• Advances or applications of evolutionary computing or agent and multiagent-based systems for generative music

• Big data, crowdsourcing and distributed approaches in musical metacreation

Systems and Applications of MuMe

• Systems for autonomous or interactive music composition

• Systems for automatic generation of expressive musical interpretation

• Systems for learning or modelling music style and structure

• Systems for intelligently remixing or recombining musical material

• Online musical systems (i.e. systems with a real-time element)

• Adaptive and generative music in video games

• Techniques and systems for supporting human musical creativity

• Applications of musical metacreation for digital entertainment: sound design, soundtracks, interactive art, etc.

Evaluation of MuMe

• Methodologies for qualitative or quantitative evaluation of MuMe

• Studies reporting on the evaluation of MuMe

Theory, and Social Impact of MuMe

• Computational models of human musical creativity

• Discussion of new genres and communities of practice related to MuMe

• Socio-economic impact, authorship and legal implications of MuMe

For an idea of MuMe relevant material please review the proceedings of the Musical Metacreation Workshop. The workshop has been running since 2012 as part of the AAAI's AI in Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) conference: http://www.aaai.org/Library/Workshops/workshops-library.php (search within this page for "Musical Metacreation").

Submit an Expression of Interest

Only authors who submit an expression of interest will be considered for the special issue.

Expressions of interest should include a paper outline of 500-1000 words, as well as a biography for all authors of 200 words in total.

Paper outlines should discuss your previous work in the area, a summary of the novel contribution of the paper, and a statement of the work’s significance to the MuMe field.

Please email your expression in PDF form to oliver.bown@sydney.edu.au.

Dates

Expressions of interest due: January 9th 2014.

Response to expressions: on or before January 26th 2015.

Final papers due: May 1st 2015.

Editors decisions announced: July 3rd 2015.

Submission of final camera-ready copies: September 4th 2015.

Publication date TBC.

Submission instructions for final manuscripts will be provided along with the editors' response to expressions. General submission guidelines can be found here http://cie.acm.org/submission-guidelines/.

Please contact Oliver Bown (oliver.bown@sydney.edu.au) if you have any further questions.

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Regards,
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Philippe Pasquier
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Associate Professor,
School of Interactive Arts and Technology,
Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology,
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
Mobile: +1 778-989-1240 | Phone: +1 778-782-8546
Email: pasquier@sfu.ca  | http://www.sfu.ca/pasquier
Skype: pasquierphilippe | http://www.metacreation.net
http://isea2015.org/    | http://www.metacreation.net/mume/
http://moco.iat.sfu.ca/ | http://movingstories.ca/
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Fwd: REMINDER: ISPS 2015 | Kyoto | 02-05 September 2015

REMINDER:

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

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ISPS 2015

Performance Education

 

02 | 05 September 2015

Kyoto | Japan

 

www.performancescience.org  

 

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The next International Symposium on Performance Science will be hosted by Ryukoku University, Kyoto, on 2-5 September 2015.

 

The ISPS 2015 theme, Performance Education, is intended to provide a platform for new research and discussion on processes of learning, training and review that enable effective performance. Specific research topics, fields of study, and methodological approaches have been left open intentionally to encourage interdisciplinary exchange.

 

Submissions detailing original research are invited from across all performance disciplines.

 

The official language of the conference is English.

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 

Janet Karin

Australian Ballet School and Australian Catholic University

 

Hiroshi Kinoshita

Osaka University

 

Gary McPherson

University of Melbourne

 

Markus Raab

Sport University Cologne

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

15 January 2015: Paper/poster proposal deadline

15 February 2015: Notification of submission decision

1 March 2015: Registration opens for ISPS 2015

15 April 2015: End of early registration discount

1 May 2015: Frontiers Research Topic opens for submissions

2 September 2015: Start of ISPS 2015

 

SUBMISSIONS

 

Abstract submissions of 500 words (maximum) are invited for

 

- Spoken papers

- Poster presentations

- Symposia and workshops

 

Detailed instructions for submissions are available via the conference website: www.performancescience.org. Submissions should be made electronically to cps@rcm.ac.uk by 15 January 2015.

 

GRADUATE AWARD

 

The Scientific Committee is keen to encourage the attendance of students, as well as established researchers and practitioners. Therefore, the ISPS 2015 Graduate Award will be offered to one graduate student to present a keynote paper at the conference.

 

Detailed instructions for submissions are available via the conference website: www.performancescience.org. Submissions should be made electronically to cps@rcm.ac.uk by 15 January 2015.

 

REVIEW PROCESS

 

Each submission will be reviewed anonymously by the Scientific Committee according to its originality, importance, clarity, and interdisciplinarity. Corresponding authors will be notified by email of the Committee’s decision by 15 February 2015.

 

CONFERENCE PUBLICATION

 

Building on the success of the ISPS 2013 Research Topic (RT) in Frontiers in Psychology, the journal is now creating a new specialty section Performance Science. The journal welcomes submissions of the highest quality of the following types:

 

Book Review

Evaluation

General Commentary

Hypothesis & Theory

Methods

Mini Review

Opinion

Original Research

Perspective

Review

Technology Report

 

For further information on Frontiers in Performance Science, see www.frontiersin.org/Performance_Science, and to read papers published as part of the ISPS 2013 RT, visit http://journal.frontiersin.org/ResearchTopic/1927.

 

For ISPS 2015, a new RT will be specially created to which ISPS registered presenters can submit papers for independent peer-review. These papers will be published immediately once accepted in the journal and will additionally be compiled into an E-book after the RT submission period closes on 31 December 2015. They will also qualify for a significant reduction in the publishing fee (e.g. from 1600 to 960 Euros for Original Research articles). For further details of the Frontiers open access policy and publishing fees, see www.frontiersin.org/Performance_Science/fees.

 

To qualify for the ISPS 2015 RT, the first (or corresponding) author must be a registered presenter at ISPS 2015, and the manuscript should be submitted between 1 May and 31 December 2015.

 

Note:

Spoken papers and posters accepted for the ISPS 2015 programme will not automatically qualify for publication in Frontiers. Rather, each full submission will be reviewed rigorously through an independent process.

 

The ISPS 2015 RT in Frontiers (and the related E-book) will replace the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science. A proceedings volume will not be produced for ISPS 2015; however, published articles from all previous ISPS are freely available at www.performancescience.org.

 

REGISTRATION

 

Full and one-day registration options are available. Online registration will open on 1 March 2015.

 

For further information about the venue, submissions, graduate award, and registration, visit the conference website: www.performancescience.org.

 

 

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Aaron Williamon

Royal College of Music, London

 

Masanobu Miura

Ryukoku University, Kyoto

 

Singing. Scientific, emotional and artistic aspects of a human phenomenon

 

 

Block the date for the International  Conference

 

Singing. Scientific, emotional and artistic aspects of a human phenomenon.

 

 

jointly organised by Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild (Max Planck Institute  for Human Development, Berlin)

and Philippe Rixhon (The Aarya Foundation, London)

 

to be held at Radialsystem V, Berlin, on Friday 20 March 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research in neuroscience, psychology and medicine as well as in music education, cultural studies, social sciences and the history of emotion shows the immense impact of singing on human development.  Not only does singing have positive effects on synapse formations in the brain and on bodily functions and emotional well-being, it also creates strong felt communities that have the power to shape both individuals and societies.

 

 

On Friday 20 March 2015,  Radialsystem V will host an international conference on Singing in Science and Education that will bring together artists from all around Europe as well as interdisciplinary  and international  scholars for one long concert of music and ideas.

 

 

In three  panels,  the phenomenon  of singing  will be considered  under  three  different points  of view: (I) “Singing  from Cradle to Grave”, including  talks by Graham Welch (Institute  of Education, London), Katherine Zeserson (Sage Gateshead), Gunter Kreutz (Carl von Ossietzky University  of Oldenburg) and Stephen Clift (Canterbury Christ Church University); (II) “Singing,  Emotion and Community”, including  talks by Jane  W. Davidson (University of Melbourne,  ARC  Centre for the History of Emotions), Svend Brown (Director of Big Big Sing and Glasgow UNESCO Creative City of Music) and Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild (Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, MPRG  “Felt Communities? Emotions in European Music Performances”);  and (III) Presentations  by the Singing Cities Exchange Artist Group, who will provide an insight into their practical experiences of both singing and educating.

This academic programme  will be topped  off with a performance  by the Singing Cities Exchange Artist Group. Detailed information will be available soon at www.radialsystem.de

For further information, please contact: herzfeld@mpib-berlin.mpg.de

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With the support of the Culture

Programme of the European Union