Apologies for cross-posting.
This is generally a nice conference (and an opportunity to visit Brazil).
Sao Paulo is a great city to visit.
Victor
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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11th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music
September 1-3 2007
São Paulo - Brazil
http://gsd.ime.usp.br/sbcm/2007
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The Symposium
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The Brazilian symposia on computer music have consolidated the significance of
Brazil's international position in the field of Computer Music. The 11th
Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music is organized by NUCOM, the computer
music branch of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC), and it will be held
in São Paulo from September 1st to 3rd, 2007.
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 work. The
program
will include, among others, a keynote speech and a workshop by Roger B.
Dannenberg (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA).
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
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General Chairs: Fabio Kon (University of São Paulo)
Fernando Iazzetta (University of São Paulo)
Technical Papers Chair: Geber Ramalho (Federal University of Pernambuco)
Music Papers Chair: Mikhail Malt (IRCAM/Sorbonne-Paris IV)
Local Arrangements Chair: Marcelo Queiroz (University of São Paulo)
IMPORTANT DATES
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June 3rd Full papers and posters submissions due
July 15th Full papers and posters notification of acceptance
July 30th Camera-ready version of papers and posters due
TECHNICAL TOPICS OF INTEREST
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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
. Distributed Music
. Internet and Web Applications
. Multimedia Systems and Applications
. Music 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 Synthesis
Technical Program committee
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Adolfo Maia Jr. Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Aluizio Arcela Universidade de Brasilia
Andrew Horner The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Chris Chafe Stanford University
Edilson Ferneda Universidade Católica de Brasília
Eduardo Miranda University of Plymouth
Emilios Cambouropoulous Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Fabio Kon Universidade de São Paulo
Flávio Soares Silva Universidade de São Paulo
François Pachet Sony Computer Science Laboratory
Gérard Assayag IRCAM
Geber Ramalho Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Giordano Cabral Université Paris 6
Henkjan Honing University of Amsterdam
Hugo de Paula PUC Minas
Ian Whalley University of Waikato
Jean-Pierre Briot CNRS - Université Paris 6 & PUC-Rio
Jonatas Manzolli Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Lelio Camilleri University of Bologna
Luis Jure Universidad de la República
Marcelo Pimenta Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Marcelo Queiroz Universidade de São Paulo
Marcelo Wanderley McGill University
Marcio Brandao Universidade de Brasilia
Maurício Loureiro Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Oscar Di Liscia Universidad Nacional de Quilmes
Palle Dahlstedt Göteborg University/Chalmers Univ. of Technology
Peter Beyls Hogeschool Gent
Petri Toiviainen University of Jyvaskyla
Regis R. A. Faria Universidade de São Paulo
Roger Dannenberg Carnegie Mellon University
Rosa Viccari Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Sever Tipei University of Illinois School of Music
Victor Lazzarini National University of Ireland
Music Papers Program Committee
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Mikhail Malt (chair) IRCAM/Sorbonne-Paris IV
Alexandre Lunsqui Columbia University, NY -USA
Fernando Iazzetta Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Jonathas Manzoli UNICAMP, Brazil
Karim Haddad IIRCAM, Paris-France
Daniel Teruggi Ina-GRM, Paris- France
Marc Battier Sorbonne-Paris IV, France
Martin Supper Berlin University of the Arts, Germany
Papers Submission
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Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the JEMS online system
(
https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=450).
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. Extended abstracts of posters, up to 4 pages long, should
present
on-going research. Please carefully comply with instructions in publication
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 1st.
More Information
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For further information, please visit the symposium home page at
http://gsd.ime.usp.br/sbcm/2007.
For questions regarding the technical papers, contact Geber Ramalho
(glr at cin.ufpe.br), for music papers, contact Mikhail Malt
(Mikhail.Malt at ircam.fr). For other inquiries contact the symposium general
chairs Fernando Iazzetta (iazzetta at usp.br) or Fabio Kon
(kon at ime.usp.br).
Victor Lazzarini
Music Technology Laboratory
Music Department
National University of Ireland, Maynooth