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Papers Scientific Committee / Music Papers Committee / Foreword / Symposium Theme
IX
Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music (IX SBCM)
Music as Emergent Behaviour
The Ninth Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music will be held in Campinas, at the University of Campinas - UNICAMP, from 06 August to 08 August, 2003.
The Brazilian Symposia are organized by NUCOM, the computer music branch of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC) and they normally take place within the Annual SBC Congress. The 2003 edition of the Congress is coordinated by UNICAMP's Institute of Computing; UNICAMP's Interdisciplinary Nucleus for Sound Studies (NICS) and the Institute of Fine Arts (IA) will host the ninth edition of the computer music symposium.
There will be key-note speeches by renowned researchers, paper sections, music papers, tutorials and demonstrations. Researchers, musicians, educators, manufacturers and all concerned with the interplay between music and technology, are invited to submit work.
Coordinators
Dr. Jônatas
Manzolli - jonatas@nics.unicamp.br
(IX SBCM Chair)
UNICAMP (NICS & DM/IA)
Dr. Eduardo Reck
Miranda - eduardo.miranda@plymouth.ac.uk
(Papers Chair)
University of Plymouth, UK
Dr. Geber Ramalho
- glr@cin.ufpe.br (Papers Chair)
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)
Dr. Fernando Iazzeta
- iazzetta@usp.br (Music Paper Chair)
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Important Dates
30/03/2003 - closing
date for submission of works (research paper,discussion paper and music paper)
08/05/2003 - notification of acceptance of works
29/05/2003 - closing date for submitting the final version of the works
Symposium Theme: Music as Emergent Behaviour
The attempt to model biological phenomena by means of evolutionary computing techniques is proving to be a viable route for a better theoretical understanding of living organisms, let alone the practical applications of biological principles for technology (e.g., robotics and nanotechnology) and medicine.
Evolutionary computing techniques have the potential to reveal new fundamental aspects of our musical creativity, because they provide a rich framework to study how cultural systems can emerge from socially interacting individuals. For example, evolutionary computing models can be used to study the circumstances and mechanisms whereby music might originate and evolve in artificially designed worlds inhabited by virtual communities of musicians and listeners. Creativity is studied here in the context of the origins and evolution of cultural conventions that may emerge under a number of constraints, such as psychological, physiological and ecological constraints.
We welcome works investigating the potential of evolutionary computing for musicology and composition, in addition to the wide range of topics of interest listed below.
Topics of interest include, but are not necessarily restricted to:
- Acoustic Modelling
and Sound Diffusion
- Algorithmic Composition
- Artificial Life and Evolutionary Music
- Artificial Intelligence
- Audio Hardware Design
- Audio Signal Processing
- Computer-Aided Musicology
- Digital Audio Libraries
- Music and Sound on the Internet
- Multimedia Integration
- Music Data Structures and Representation
- Musical Databases and Data Mining
- Music Notation, Printing and Optical Recognition
- New Interfaces for Musical Expression
- Psychoacoustics and Cognitive Modelling
- Real-time Generative Systems
- Sound Compression
- Sound Synthesis
- Systems for Music Analysis
- Systems for Musical Education
Welcome to the IX Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music. The decision to make our symposium biannual has proved to be very positive and has made a significant impact on the number of high-quality paper contributions. Clearly more than one year is necessary to make sufficient research progress, worthy of an original conference paper. But what is really encouraging this year is the emergence of a strong new generation of participants from different regions of Brazil. We are now beginning to harvest the seeds planted in this fertile soil 10 years ago and computer music research in Brazil is here to stay and is clearly flourishing and growing steadily. There are a number of established research groups in the country and poles of excellence are beginning to emerge. One of our next objectives is to make this research more visible and internationally recognized: we are in a good position to achieve this. Those who have had papers accepted for this edition of the symposium should realize that they were evaluated by at least three representatives from 22 different countries, from Australia, Belgium and China, to New Zealand, Uruguay and South Africa.
NUCOM and the SBC’s special group on computer music are now facing a challenging and an exciting mission: to foster the definition of a national research program for computer music. A national research program is badly needed in order to optimize resources and time. It is highly counter-productive and wasteful for a research group in Porto Alegre, for example, to redevelop what our colleagues in Recife or Campinas have already worked on. Competition and the replication of experiments are certainly necessary, but our work becomes far more effective if we have a collaborative research agenda. This is a strategy that is being successfully adopted in all areas of serious research worldwide. We cannot afford to miss this boat.
The organizers of the IX SBCM would like to thank all members of the committee for their dedication, and all the authors for their support and interest in our symposium. A very warm welcome is extended to those coming from abroad, and we are particularly delighted to welcome our Latin American neighbors. We look forward to seeing you again in 2006.
Eduardo Reck Miranda and Geber Ramalho (editors)
Aluizio Arcela,
Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
Daniel Arfib, CNRS Music and Acoustics Laboratory, France
Peter Beyls, St Lukas Art School, Belgium
Marcio Brandao, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
Jürgen Bräuninger, University of Natal, South Africa
Andrew Brown, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Emilios Cambouropoulous, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Lelio Camilleri, University of Bolgona, Italy
Palle Dahlstedt, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Furio Damiani, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Simon Dixon, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria
Henkjan Honing, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Andrew Horner, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Sergi Jorda, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Luis Jure, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
Fabio Kon, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Victor Lazzarini, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Marc Leman, University of Gent, Belgium
Oscar Pablo di Liscia, Universidad de Quilmes, Argentina
Adolfo Maia Jr., Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Tony Mayatt, University of York, England
Felipe Otondo, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Mercelo Soares Pimenta, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Petri Toiviainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Ian Whalley, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Marcelo Wanderley, McGill University, Canada
Cesar Villavicencio,
Royal Conservatory, Haia, Netherlands
Didier Guigue, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Brazil
Guy Garnett University of Illinois, USA
Miguel Azguime, Miso Music, Portugal
Mikahil Malt, Ircam, France
Paulo Chagas, Composer, Germany
Ricardo dal Farra, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina
Sergio Freire, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Stephen Davismoon, The Ian Tomlin School of Music, Edinburg
