Call for papers

The Symposium

The SBCM - Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music is a biannual event with international recognition in the field of computer music organized by NUCOM, the computer music interest group of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC). This 12th edition will be held from September 7th to 9th, 2009, in Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco, at the beautiful northeast brazilian coast, and is specially dedicated to approaching the relentless universe of new paradigms for making music with computers and electronic gears, bringing up their essentials and trends.

During the symposium there will be speeches by renowned researchers, technical and music paper sessions, discussion panels, and concerts. Researchers, scientists, composers, educators, manufacturers, and all concerned with the interplay between music and technology are invited to submit works. The program will include, among others, a keynote speech by Miller Puckette (University of California, San Diego), author of Pure Data (Pd), a graphical programming language for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works widely spread in the artistic and scientific community of computer music.

The program committee will give a prize for the best student papers presented at SBCM. Papers that have a student as a major author are eligible. Two awards will be given: one for the best technical paper and another for the best music paper.

Organization Committee

Important Dates

Technical Topics of Interest

The topics to be covered include, but are not limited to:

• Acoustics, Diffusion, Sonorization
• Artificial Intelligence and Music
• Artificial Life and Evolutionary Music Systems
• Audio Hardware design
• Audio Digital Signal Processing
• Computer-Aided Music Analysis
• Computer-Aided Musical Education
• Computer-Aided Musicology
• Digital music systems and services
• Distributed Music
• Internet and Web Applications
• Multimedia Systems and Applications
• Music Formats, Data Structures and Representation
• Music Information Retrieval
• Music Notation, Printing, and Optical Recognition
• Quality of Service for Audio
• Psychoacoustics and Cognitive Modeling
• Real-time Interactive Systems
• Software Systems and Languages for Composition
• Sound Analysis and Synthesis

Technical Program Committee

• Adolfo Maia Jr. (UNICAMP, Brazil)
• Aluizio Arcela (UnB, Brazil)
• Álvaro Barbosa (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal)
• Andrew Horner (The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong)
• Chris Chafe (Stanford University, USA)
• Eduardo Miranda (University of Plymouth, UK)
• Emilios Cambouropoulous (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
• Evandro Miletto (UFRGS, Brazil)
• Fabien Gouyon (INESC – Porto, Portugal)
• Fabio Kon (USP, Brazil)
• Flávio Soares Corrêa da Silva (USP, Brazil)
• François Pachet (Sony Computer Science Laboratory, France)
• Geber Ramalho (UFPE, Brazil)
• Giordano Cabral (Université Paris 6, France)
• Hugo de Paula (PUC-MG, Brazil)
• Ian Whalley (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
• Jean-Pierre Briot (CNRS - Université Paris 6, France)
• Jonatas Manzolli (UNICAMP, Brazil)
• Lelio Camilleri (University of Bologna, Italy)
• Luis Jure (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
• Marcelo Soares Pimenta (UFRGS, Brazil) - Technical Papers Chair
• Marcelo Queiroz (USP, Brazil)
• Marcelo Wanderley (McGill University, USA)
• Marcio Brandao (UnB, Brazil)
• Mikhail Malt (IRCAM, France)
• Oscar Di Liscia (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina)
• Palle Dahlstedt (Göteborg University/Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
• Peter Beyls (Hogeschool Gent, Belgium)
• Petri Toiviainen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
• Regis R. A. Faria (USP, Brazil)
• Roger Dannenberg (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Rosa Viccari (UFRGS, Brazil)
• Sever Tipei (University of Illinois School of Music, USA)
• Victor Lazzarini (National University of Ireland, Ireland)

Music Papers Program Committee

• Adina Izarra (Universidad Simón Bolivar, Venezuela)
• Alejandro Viñao (United Kingdom)
• Catalina Peralta Cáceres (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
• Damián Keller (UFAC - Federal University of Acre, Brazil) - Music Papers Chair
• Daniel Teruggi (GRM, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, France)
• Didier Guigue (Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil)
• Javier Alvarez (Conservatorio de las Rosas, Mexico)
• Fernando Iazzetta (Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
• Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, USA)
• Mikhail Malt (IRCAM - Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique, France)
• Rodolfo Coelho de Souza (Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil)

Papers Submission Instructions

Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the JEMS online system (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br).

Technical papers, up to 12 pages long, are supposed to present original research with scientific contributions. Music papers, up to 12 pages long, describe the experience of composers and users of computational tools to produce music (see guidelines). Extended abstracts of posters, up to 4 pages long, should present on-going research. Please carefully comply with instructions in publications templates. Papers which do not fulfill the requirements can not be published. Download files for manuscript preparation in accordance with the SBC guidelines from http://gsd.ime.usp.br/sbcm/2007/templates In order to get the paper published, it is required that at least one author register for the symposium by August 3rd, 2009.

More Information

For further information and advanced technical program, please visit the symposium home page at http://gsd.ime.usp.br/sbcm/2009. For questions regarding submissions, please contact Marcelo Pimenta (mpimenta at inf.ufrgs.br) for technical papers, and Damián Keller (dkeller at ccrma.stanford.edu) for music papers. For questions regarding local organization, please contact Giordano Cabral (giordanorec at gmail.com) or Geber Ramalho (glr at cin.ufpe.br). For other inquiries contact the symposium general chairs Regis Faria (regis at lsi.usp.br) or Marcelo Queiroz (mqz at ime.usp.br).