International Computer Music Conference
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International Computer Music Association
The International Computer Music Association is an international affiliation of individuals and institutions involved in the technical, creative, and performance aspects of computer music. It serves composers, engineers, researchers and musicians who are interested in the integration of music and...
(ICMA).
Each year there is a specific theme. For example, in 2007, the theme was "Immersed Music" and immersive media. ICMC 2007 took place in Copenhagen. On Tuesday August 28th, there was an "Underwater/Water Concert" at the DGI-byen
DGI-byen
DGI-byen is a facility that houses various spa facilities, restaurants, hotels, conference facilities, a bowling alley, flexible multi-centres, sports clubs, a superellipse shaped swimming pool and Vandkulturhuset, , located in central Copenhagen, Denmark.DGI-byen is situated within the Meat...
swimcenter, in the hundred-metre DGI-byen pool, as well as the various other pools of the Vandkulturhuset.
This Immersed Music theme of ICMC 2007 explored important issues in musical instrument classification and immersion.
Areas included
- Algorithmic compositionAlgorithmic compositionAlgorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create music.Algorithms have been used to compose music for centuries; the procedures used to plot voice-leading in Western counterpoint, for example, can often be reduced to algorithmic determinacy...
- Alternate Loudspeaker Construction and Design
- Architectural acousticsArchitectural acousticsArchitectural acoustics is the science of noise control within buildings. The first application of architectural acoustics was in the design of opera houses and then concert halls. More widely, noise suppression is critical in the design of multi-unit dwellings and business premises that generate...
- Artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
and Music - Aesthetics, Philosophy, Analysis, Appreciation, Criticism
- Acoustics of Musical instruments and the Voice
- Audio analysisAudio analysisAudio analysis refers to the extraction of information and meaning from audio signals for analysis, classification, storage, retrieval, synthesis, etc....
/resynthesis - Audio coding and Audio compressionAudio compressionAudio compression may refer to:*Audio compression , a type of lossy compression in which the amount of data in a recorded waveform is reduced for transmission with some loss of quality, used in CD and MP3 encoding, Internet radio, and the like...
- Audio hardware
- Audio programming languages and software tools
- Audio signal processingAudio signal processingAudio signal processing, sometimes referred to as audio processing, is the intentional alteration of auditory signals, or sound. As audio signals may be electronically represented in either digital or analog format, signal processing may occur in either domain...
- Composition systems and techniques
- Computational Neuroscience of Music
- Computer musicComputer musicComputer music is a term that was originally used within academia to describe a field of study relating to the applications of computing technology in music composition; particularly that stemming from the Western art music tradition...
and Digital Art - Computer Music Performance Practice
- Digital Audio Coding
- Digital audio signal processing
- Education on Music and Technology
- Evolutionary Computer Music
- Gestural and hapticHaptic communicationHaptic communication is the means by which people and other animals communicate via touching. Touch, or the haptic sense, is extremely important for humans; as well as providing information about surfaces and textures it is a component of nonverbal communication in interpersonal relationships, and...
interfaces for music - Granular synthesisGranular synthesisGranular synthesis is a basic sound synthesis method that operates on the microsound time scale.It is based on the same principle as sampling. However, the samples are not played back conventionally, but are instead split into small pieces of around 1 to 50ms. These small pieces are called grains...
- History of Electro-acoustic and Computer Music
- Interactive performance systems
- LoudspeakerLoudspeakerA loudspeaker is an electroacoustic transducer that produces sound in response to an electrical audio signal input. Non-electrical loudspeakers were developed as accessories to telephone systems, but electronic amplification by vacuum tube made loudspeakers more generally useful...
and Microphone arrayMicrophone arrayA microphone array is any number of microphones operating in tandem. There are many applications:*Systems for extracting voice input from ambient noise *Surround sound and related technologies...
s - Machine recognition of Audio
- Machine Recognition of Music
- MIDI Applications
- Musical analysisMusical analysisMusical analysis is the attempt to answer the question how does this music work?. The method employed to answer this question, and indeed exactly what is meant by the question, differs from analyst to analyst, and according to the purpose of the analysis. According to Ian Bent , analysis is "an...
- Music Data Structures and Representations
- Music educationMusic educationMusic education is a field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music. It touches on all domains of learning, including the psychomotor domain , the cognitive domain , and, in particular and significant ways,the affective domain, including music appreciation and sensitivity...
- Music grammars
- Music information retrievalMusic information retrievalMusic information retrieval is the interdisciplinary science of retrieving information from music. MIR is a small but growing field of research with many real-world applications...
- Music languages
- Music notation and Printing
- Music workstationMusic workstationA music workstation is an electronic musical instrument providing the facilities of:*a sound module,*a music sequencer and* a musical keyboard.It enables a musician to compose electronic music using just one piece of equipment.-History:...
s - Musical informatics
- Performance interfaces
- PsychoacousticsPsychoacousticsPsychoacoustics is the scientific study of sound perception. More specifically, it is the branch of science studying the psychological and physiological responses associated with sound...
, PerceptionPerceptionPerception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of the environment by organizing and interpreting sensory information. All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organs...
, and CognitionCognitionIn science, cognition refers to mental processes. These processes include attention, remembering, producing and understanding language, solving problems, and making decisions. Cognition is studied in various disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science... - Real-Time systems
- Room acousticsRoom acousticsRoom acoustics describes how sound behaves in an enclosed space.The way that sound behaves in a room can be broken up into roughly four different frequency zones:...
- Sound in MultimediaMultimediaMultimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
- Sound diffusion and SpatializationSpatial musicSpatial music, music in space, or space music uses the localization of sounds in physical space as a compositional element in music, in sound art, and in sound editing for audio recordings, film, and video...
- Sound synthesis languages
- Sound synthesis Methods
- Studio Reports
- Studio Designs
- TuningMusical tuningIn music, there are two common meanings for tuning:* Tuning practice, the act of tuning an instrument or voice.* Tuning systems, the various systems of pitches used to tune an instrument, and their theoretical bases.-Tuning practice:...
and IntonationIntonation (music)Intonation, in music, is a musician's realization of pitch accuracy, or the pitch accuracy of a musical instrument. Intonation may be flat, sharp, or both, successively or simultaneously.-Interval, melody, and harmony:... - Wireless Audio Systems
Other related conferences
Similarly themed conferences include- DAFX, Digital Audio Effects
- NIME, New Interfaces for Musical Expression;
- ACM MultimediaACM MultimediaACM Multimedia is the Association of Computing Machinery 's annual conference on multimedia, sponsored by the SIGMM special interest group....
- SIGGRAPHSIGGRAPHSIGGRAPH is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. The first SIGGRAPH conference was in 1974. The conference is attended by tens of thousands of computer professionals...
- ISMIRIsmirIsmirs may mean:*The International Society for Music Information Retrieval or International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval *The Turkish city of İzmir*A first name...
- SMCSound and Music Computing ConferenceThe Sound and Music Computing Conference is the forum for international exchanges around the core interdisciplinary topics of Sound and Music Computing...
, Sound and Music Computing Conference