We’re pleased to announce that
submissions are open for the Australasian Computer Music Conference! The
conference will take place at the Australian National University, Canberra,
from July 8-11, 2020.
ACMC is the annual gathering of the
Australasian Computer Music Association, a place to show and discuss research
and artistic progress in computer/electronic music. It’s a festival of performances,
installations, workshops, and tutorials that inspire, challenge, and showcase
our community.
This year’s conference theme is
inclusion. We want to highlight the diverse range of people who contribute to
Australia’s computer/electronic music culture but may not normally attend an
academic conference, including artists and scholars who are young/emerging,
from regional/remote areas, who have a disability, who are First Nations
People, who have low/no income, who are engaged in community music making, or
who simply work outside of academia and mainstream institutions.
Submissions are now open until 13
March 2020. As measures to promote inclusion at ACMC, we are offering early
feedback on submissions made before 28/2/2020, as well as support for accepted
contributors who might have difficulty attending the conference.
Looking forward to your submissions!
- Charles Martin, Ben Swift, Nat
Grant, Alexander Hunter, Kit Devine, Sia Ahmad (ACMC committee)
## Call for Contributions
We invite submissions of
performances, installations and musical works, papers and artist talks, and
finally workshops and tutorials.
Papers, artist talks, and creative
works will selected through a single-blind peer-review process with at least
two reviewers. Workshops and tutorials will be selected by the conference
organisers.
### Performances and Music
Composers and performers are invited
to submit works in any style of electroacoustic music including the
following categories:
- performances/music involving live
electronics, including computer processing
- laptop ensemble works
- live coding and algorave
performances
- works combining musical instruments
or voice with live or fixed media electronics, with up to 8 channels
- electroacoustic music for fixed
media (up to 8 channels)
- video and multimedia works (up to 8
channels)
This call is open to all composers,
regardless of nationality, age or career stage. Composers of selected works are
generally expected to attend the conference.
### Installations
We invite site-specific installation
works for locations at the Australian National University School of Music, and
Research School of Computer Science, these will be installed for the duration
of the conference. These could be sound art works, multimedia works, sonic
sculptures or self-playing systems.
### Research Papers & Artist
Talks
We invite extended abstracts of up to
1000 words for research papers and artist talks. These could relate to musical
performances above or any of the topics listed on https://acmc202.com. All extended abstracts will be
subject to single-blind review by at least two peer reviewers.
Accepted papers/talks will be
presented in either short (10) or long (20 minutes) seminar format and the
extended abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings. Full
versions of accepted papers will be invited for further peer review and
publication in Chroma, the journal of the Australasian Computer Music
Association.
### Workshops and Tutorials
We invite contributed workshops and
tutorials to take place on Saturday 11 July at the ANU School of Music.
Workshops and tutorials could be about the topics listed below and we make a
particular call for workshops that are inclusive of the broad electronic music
community.
Workshops will be included in the
conference promotional materials and program. Workshops and tutorials will be
selected by the conference committee. Venues and facilities will include
seminar rooms and the music computing lab at the ANU School of Music. We are
aiming for short workshops (60 minutes) to enable as many as possible. We
invite you to get in touch to discuss workshop requirements before submitting.
## Submissions
Submission to ACMC are through
EasyChair, see https://acmc2020.com/#/features/03-submission for details.
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