Musicacoustica 2006: Language

Nov. 20, 2005

Type: event
Starts: Oct 22 2006 at 12:00AM
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The Electroacoustic Music Association of China (EMAC) and the China Electronic Music Center (CEMC) based at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in a special cooperation with the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network's (EMS) International Conference Series are pleased to announce their annual festival:
 Musicacoustica 2006: Language October 22nd through 29th Beijing, China
 The week-long MusicAcoustica 2006 festival (22-29 October) will be focused on the broad theme of Language. EMS06 papers, in more focused paper sessions (from the 23rd to 26th), will concentrate on a crucial aspect of language, namely terminology - see the full call for papers here: http://www.ems.dmu.ac.uk/ems06/. We consider this historical joint meeting in Beijing as essentially an international summit on the coherence of electroacoustic music terminology subject to the twisting and bending of the field in its emerging global context. Music, sound installations and workshops will further reflect on the theme in all its breadth and depth.
 Chinese composers and academics come together once a year to plan future directions for the development of computer music in China and to learn/exchange with their international guests. This year the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS) "an international team which aims to encourage reflection on the better understanding of electroacoustic music" will be our special guests at the festival. At the same time, we invite a broad reflection on the theme from experts in linguistics and music, ontology specification, semantic web, music knowledge modeling and translation issues related to expert domain knowledges.
 A local motivation for the conference relates to problems in translation of new terms (such as microsound or phonography) into Chinese. However, we invite submissions from various perspectives derived from projects posing new approaches to coherent structuring of specialized domain knowledges (such as new media - translate smartmob into Chinese!) which have faced problems with translation issues. The objective of this ‘summit’ is to create a forum of sustained co-operation; an international effort towards situating and translating electronic music concepts and terms within the emerging semantic global village. Workshops and extended residencies are invited in the days surrounding the conference.
 Deadline for music proposals is May 1, 2006 - to be notified by June 1st. Contact Kenneth Fields, below for more information. Register for conference updates at: http://lists.ccom.edu.cn/mailman/listinfo/musicacoustica2006. Detailed registration information to follow in February of 2006. Deadline for the EMS papers proposals (abstracts and CV's) is February 26th, 2006. (see paper call for details - above link).
 Musicacoustica Organizing committee:
 Zhang Xiaofu President of EMAC; Director of CEMC at China's Central Conservatory of Music  Beijing  [email protected]
 Kenneth Fields Professor CEMC at China's Central Conservatory of Music Also: Dept of Digital Art and Design, Peking University [email protected]
 Send materials (DVD, CD's) regarding festival to:
MusicAcoustic 2006 C/O Zhang Xiaofu and Kenneth Fields CEMC - China Electronic Music Center Central Conservatory of Music 43 BaoJia Street Beijing 100031 China, Tel: 6642-5742

Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Organizers:
 MTI (Leigh Landy, EARS ElectroAcoustic Resource Site, MTI Research Centre, De Montfort University) INA/GRM (Daniel Teruggi) MINT (Marc Battier, Musicologie, informatique et nouvelles technologies, OMF, Universite de Paris-Sorbonne)