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Conference theme: Notation of Electronic Music

The conference will focus on the technologies, applications, affordances, and aesthetic implications of notation, prescription, transcription, and inscription as applied to electronic music in its broadest sense—including, but not limited to, music conceived through electronic, computer, and AI-powered technology; music performed by and with electronic and electronically-augmented instruments; sound- and pitch-based electroacoustic music; music for and with live electronics; experimental and underground electronic music; sound art and sound- and music-adjacent disciplines, powered or mediated by electronic technology; and more. Also, the discourse implicitly encompasses notation for custom-made and non-standard instruments, as well as diverse instrumental and vocal techniques, due to the common issues between the fields.

We aim to foster interdisciplinary discussion and exchange among thinkers and practitioners of all the above disciplines and beyond, through a diversified and pluralistic lens.

Suggested Topics for Contributions

We encourage submissions on—but not limited to—the following topics:

• Software and hardware tools for notation of electronic and experimental music
• Notation-based musicology of electronic and experimental music
• History of notation of electronic and experimental music
• Semiotics, ontology, and epistemology of notation as applied to electronic and experimental music
• Digital, animated, interactive and non-visual notation
• Notation of gestural control and spatialisation
• Notation for sound art, sonification, and musification
• Technologies for music and sound analysis and representation
• AI and machine learning in musical notation
• Live coding
• Computer code as musical notation
• New interfaces for musical notation
• Physical computing and robotics in musical notation
• Generative notational processes and computer-aided composition
• Technology and music theory
• Computational musicology and musical analysis
• Aesthetic and social implications of music notation technologies
• Notation technologies in cross-disciplinary performance arts
• Cognitive and psychological aspects of musical notation
• Technologies for the pedagogy of musical notation
• Technology-enhanced notation for motor-, sensor-, and cognitively divergent musicians and performers
• Technological aspects of decentralisation of Western musical notation