CALL FOR PAPERS

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

http://gsd.ime.usp.br/sbcm/2009

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

General chairs:    Regis Rossi A. Faria (LSI - University of São Paulo)
                             Marcelo Queiroz (IME - University of São Paulo)

Local organization chairs:   Geber Ramalho (UFPE - Federal University of Pernambuco)
                                            Giordano Cabral (UFPE - Federal University of Pernambuco)
 
Technical Papers chair:  Marcelo Pimenta (UFRS - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) 
 
Music Papers chair:  Damián Keller (UFAC - Federal University of Acre)
 

Important Dates
 
June   7th     Full papers and posters submissions due
July   12th    Full papers and posters notification of acceptance
August   2nd    Camera-ready version of papers and posters due
 
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
● 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
 
 

Music Papers Program Committee

Adina Izarra (Universidad Simón Bolivar, Venezuela)
Alejandro Viñao (United Kingdom)

Catalina Peralta Cáceres (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
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).