Philosophy of Artificial Music. Algorithms, Machine Learning, Data
The tradition of algorithmic music, which aims to design explicit and interpretable algorithms for generating music, has long been the primary provider of artificial music. But the rise of machine learning changes the game by making it possible to employ implicit but opaque algorithms—trained on datasets but whose details, by design, elude direct human understanding. It is this new tension that we aim to explore in this international conference. What changes does machine learning, and especially deep learning, bring to how musicians, listeners, and philosophers create, appreciate, and think about music?
Conference Dates: 03.11.–05.11.2026, Nantes Université, France
TENOR – International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation
Call for Contributions
The conference on Notation of Electronic Music 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. 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.
Deadline: 14 November 2026
Time and Place: 21–23 April 2027, Orpheus Institute Ghent
IMPACT 2027 – Territories of Negotiation: Exploring Trends in Interdisciplinary Improvisation
Call for Proposals
The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre is pleased to announce the international symposium Territories of Negotiation: Exploring Trends in Interdisciplinary Improvisation. This symposium aims to offer comprehensive perspectives from a diverse range of disciplines that engage with improvisation as an art form, a method of creation, or an object of research.
IMPACT 2027 explores the concept of negotiation as a central condition of improvisation and interdisciplinary practice. Encounters between different disciplines may generate collaboration, negotiation, tension, misunderstanding, transformation, and illumination. Contributions are invited that explore how artistic work and knowledge are shaped through and by spontaneity.
Deadline: 15 November 2026
Time and Place: 11–13 Februar 2027, Tallinn, Estonia
The Transformative Nature of ‘Playing-with’
Call for Proposals
This three-day symposium invites researchers, performers, composers, and artist-scholars to engage creatively and critically with three intertwined lines of inquiry: sustainability through experimentation, the fragmentary in art and music, and experimental performance practices based on reconfiguration, curation, and reassembly of pre-existing sonic materials. The symposium builds on artistic research that understands musical works not as stable, closed entities, but as dynamic constellations of materials open to reinterpretation through performative and curatorial acts. Within this perspective, performance becomes a site where fragments are activated, reorganised, and transformed—ensuring not only their continued relevance but also their continued existence.
Deadline: 20 December 2026, 23:59 CET
Time and Place: 22–24 February 2027, Orpheus Instituut, Ghent