Last Call for papers

12th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music
September 7-9 2009
Porto Digital, Recife, PE - Brazil

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 Computer 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.

Researchers, scientists, composers, educators, manufacturers, and all concerned with the interplay between music and technology are invited to submit works.

During the symposium there will be speeches by renowned researchers, technical and music paper sessions, discussion panels, and concerts. The program will include, among others, a keynote speech by Miller Puckette (University of California, San Diego), author of Pure Data (Pd) real-time graphical programming environment, a tutorial on mathematical models in computer-aided music theory by IRCAM, and a keynote speech by composer Daniel Teruggi, director of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales at INA (Institut National De L'Audiovisuel, Paris).

We are proud to inform that a selection of the best papers presented at SBCM will be invited to submit an extended version for a dedicated Special Issue of the Journal of New Music Research, and the selected musical pieces will be published with the support of the Electronic Music Foundation (EMF). The program committee will also 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. One prize will be a one-year Forum IRCAM subscription.

Important Dates

Technical Topics of Interest

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

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

Papers Submission Instructions

Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the JEMS online submission system. Submissions in Spanish, Portuguese and English are welcome.

Technical papers, up to 12 pages long, are supposed to present original research with scientific contributions. Music papers, up to 12 pages long, should 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 the files for manuscript preparation in accordance with the SBC guidelines here.

In order to get the paper published, it is required that at least one author register for the symposium by August 10th, 2009.

More Information

For further information and advanced technical program, please visit the symposium home page at http://compmus.ime.usp.br/sbcm/2009/. For questions regarding submissions, local organization and general inquiries, send e-mail to the Organization Committee at sbcm2009 at gmail.com.