TENOR 2016

Call for papers

The second International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation is dedicated to issues in theoretical and applied research and development in Music Notation and Representation, with a focus on computer tools and applications, music creation and cognition.

Until very recently, the support provided by computer music developers and practitioners to the field of symbolic notation has remained fairly conventional. However, recent developments indicate that the field of tools for musical notation is now moving towards new forms of representation. Moreover, musical notation, transcription, sonic visualisation, and musical representation are often associated with the fields of musical analysis, ethnology, and acoustics. The aim of this conference is to explore all recent mutations of notation and representation in all domains of music.

This year we are extending the call to include cognition as well as ontological issues of performance practice arising from the use of traditional and/or graphical notation systems in live electronics.

In addition to paper submissions, we are interested in receiving proposals for workshops involving technologies of notation and representation. We would also be happy to receive proposals involving presentation formats which challenge the paper/presentation model.

Topics of interest

Musical creation

Notation in electronic and electroacoustic music
Notations for interactive music
Notation for sound installations
Notation for the multimedia and mixed arts
Live coding
Ontologies of notation

Musical notation

Innovative computer applications for music notation
Languages for music notation
Gesture notation
Notation and mobile devices
Exchange formats for music notation
Online tools and languages for music notation and representation

Analysis, notation & pieces studies

Analysis of contemporary notations
Semiotics of new notation forms
Ontology of the notation of interactive music
Data mining, music notation corpus, databases
Notation in mind: notation and cognition

Representation, transcription

Sound visualisation
Interactive representation
Transcription in ethnomusicology and representation of non-written music
Non-western or ancient music trans-notation
Representation and transcription in acoustic ecology and soundscapes
Optical music recognition

Listening, teaching

Listening guides
Live and offline annotation
Notations for music pedagogy

Practical Information

Locations

The conference is hosted by Anglia Ruskin University and Cambridge University.

Papers sessions and keynote will take place at:

Anglia Ruskin University - LAB 006
East Road
Cambridge

Workshops will take place at:

Centre for Music and Science
Cambridge University Faculty of Music
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9DP

Walking from Anglia Ruskin to West Road takes about 30 minutes.

Travelling

Travelling information is available here

Accommodation

Single bed in Westminster College (25min walk to campus, £70/night)
Premier Inn approx. £85/night, 10min walk to campus
Otherwise we recommend these hotels

Places of interest

here

Warning

There is NO car parking on campus.
(unless you are a disabled badge holder, in which case please email ian.gorton@anglia.ac.uk to book a bay)

Park & Ride information is available on the Cambridge Council website.

Submission procedure

The deadline for receipt of papers is Monday November 16th 2015 midnight GMT. Notification of acceptance will be emailed to applicants by January 25th 2016. Presenters whose papers are chosen will be invited to submit their revised papers by 18th April 2016.

Papers must be written in English and must use and comply with the latex template or word template.
Full papers (not abstracts) and original work (not already published) must be submitted. Paper length should be between 4 and 12 pages.
Submissions should be made via the EasyChair platform.

Proposals will be accepted as oral presentations or posters. The duration of an oral presentation will be 15 minutes followed by a question period of 5 minutes. Standard presentation equipment will be provided including a video projector, CD player, and stereo sound system.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISSN/ISBN reference, and will be archived online after the conference.

For workshop proposals, send a one page abstract to tenor2016[at]tenor-conference.org. Regarding specific presentations formats, include a one line description with your abstract.

The conference language is English.

For any question, please contact : tenor2016[at]tenor-conference.org

Note for posters

Poster submissions should be in English and include an abstract of the poster and names & affiliations of all authors. Posters may be sized A0 (Portrait only). Remember that a poster should be readable from a distance of one or two meters; we recommend using fonts of 26pt or larger for the base text. The conference organisers will supply display boards and tacks/adhesive. For a fee of £22 you can print your A0 poster here at ARU. It will be waiting at the Registration desk for you. Please contact ian.gorton@anglia.ac.uk to arrange.

Programme

Detailed programme

Is available here

Overview

Keynote speakers

Elaine Chew

Elaine Chew is Professor of Digital Media at Queen Mary University of London, where she is affiliated with the Centre for Digital Music and co-Leads its Cognition, Creativity & Expression research theme. A classically trained pianist and operations researcher, she uses mathematical and computational models and scientific visualisation to represent, analyse, and explain aspects of musicianship, including musical prosody and structure, cognition, and interaction. She also works with composers to create and premiere new compositions, and designs and performs in concert-conversations that probe the nature of music making and listening.

Jonathan Impett

Jonathan Impett’s professional and research activities cover many aspects of contemporary musical practice, as trumpet player, composer and theorist. In the field of historical performance, he is a long-standing member of both The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. He is also a member of the experimental chamber ensemble Apartment House. As a soloist he has given premieres of works by composers including Scelsi, Berio, Harvey and Finnissy. He directed the live electronic chamber ensemble Metanoia, and was awarded a Prix Ars Electronica for his development of the metatrumpet. His compositions have been broadcast throughout Europe; a new CD will be released by Attacca in 2015. As an improviser he has played with musicians as divers as Paul Dunmall and Amit Chaudhuri.
Work in the space between composition and improvisation has led to continuous research in the areas of interactive systems and interfaces. The current ‘active sound space’ project uses ALife populations of wave models to create interactive works combining aspects of composition and sound art. A monograph on the music of Luigi Nono will be published by Ashgate in 2016, and Jonathan is currently working on a project considering the nature of the contemporary musical object, ‘The work without content’.
Having been Head of Music at the University of East Anglia, he is now Associate Professor at Middlesex University, London, and Director of Research at the Orpheus Instituut, Ghent – a major centre for artistic research.

Workshops

Follow this link for more details about the TENOR workshops.

Registration

Registration is open.

	Early (before April 20th)	Late
Regular Fee	60 £	120 £
Student Fee	40 £	80 £
Workshops	free

Registration fees include:

Attendance to all paper sessions, poster sessions, keynotes and concerts
Conference guide and electronic proceedings
Coffee breaks and lunches

Accommodation is not included in the conference fees.
Attendance to the workshops is free but you must register due to the limited number of places.
Early registration ends on April 20th.

Committees

Organising Committee

Richard Hoadley (ARU)
Tom Hall (ARU)
Nicholas Brown (ARU)
Paul Jackson (ARU)
Roderick Watkins (ARU)
Ian Cross (Cambridge University)
Torsten Anders (University of Bedfordshire)
Thor Magnusson (University of Sussex)
Chris Nash (University of the West of England)
Dominique Fober (Grame, Lyon)
Mariana Lopez (ARU)
Sarah Faber (ARU)
Krisztian Hofstadter (ARU)

TENOR Steering committee

Jean Bresson, Ircam-CNRS UMR STMS
Pierre Couprie, IReMus Université Paris-Sorbonne
Dominique Fober, GRAME
Yann Geslin, INA-GRM
Richard Hoadley, Anglia Ruskin University
Mike Solomon

Scientific Committee

Hasnizam Abdul Wahid
Andrea Agostini
Torsten Anders
Trevor Bača
Karim Barkati
Sandeep Bhagwati
Andrew Blackburn
Alan Blackwell
Alain Bonardi
Bruno Bossis
Jean Bresson
Nicholas Brown
Michael Clarke
Pierre Couprie
Cécile Davy-Rigaux
Frédéric Dufeu
Emile Ellberger
Simon Emmerson
Sarah Faber
Dominique Fober
Jason Freeman
Ichiro Fujinaga
Jérémie Garcia
Yann Geslin
Daniele Ghisi
Jean-Louis Giavitto
Gérald Guillot
Georg Hajdu
Tom Hall
Keith Hamel
Richard Hoadley
Cat Hope
Adrian Hull
Florent Jacquemard
Mieko Kanno
David Kim-Boyle
Leigh Landy
Mariana Lopez
Thor Magnusson
Mikhail Malt
Peter Manning
Peter McCulloch
Chris Nash
Douglas Nunn
Jean Penny
François Picard
Paul Rhys
Philippe Rigaux
Eleanor Selfridge-Field
Ryan Smith
Mike Solomon
Alice Tacaille
Matthew Thibeault

Detailed programme and proceedings are online.

Videos of the concert are online.