[Reader-list] MusicAcoustica 2006: Language

[Kenneth Fields]

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
cemc at ccom.edu.cn


Kenneth Fields
Professor
CEMC at China's Central Conservatory of Music
Also: Dept of Digital Art and Design, Peking University
ken at ccom.edu.cn


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, Université de Paris-Sorbonne)





Kenneth Fields, Ph.D.
Assoc. Professor Media Arts
Dept. of Digital Art and Design
School of Software
Peking University
Beijing 102600 China
http://tiki.ss.pku.edu.cn
Tel PKU: (8610) 6127-3642

Professor / Computer Music
CEMC - China Electronic Music Center
Central Conservatory of Music
Beijing 100031 China
URL: http://cemc.ccom.edu.cn
Tel:    6642-5742





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