Call for Papers
International Csound Conference (ICSC 2026)
We encourage submissions, both musical and scientific, that engage with the themes, methods, and perspectives emerging from the work of Gottfried Michael Koenig and James Tenney. Their contributions engage with a wide range of topics, including electronic music composition and theory, as evidenced in writings such as Tenney’s Computer Music Experiences 1961–64 and Koenig’s The Construction of Sound, as well as conventional and non-conventional sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, voltage-controlled synthesis, and music programming.
Deadline: 30.06.2026
Datum und Ort: 20.–22.10.2026, Trapani, Sicily, Italy
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Call for Papers
Musica Futura Conference
Conceived by Nuova Consonanza, the conference is dedicated to contemporary compositional practices. All contributions must address musical practice from the post-World War II period onwards. References to earlier practices are admissible, provided a clear and creative connection to present-day compositional work is demonstrated. Papers of a purely historical or musicological nature, focused on composers of the past, however recent, with no discernible relevance to current compositional practice will be considered outside the scope of the conference.
Deadline: 06.09.2026
Datum und Ort: Dezember 2026, Il Mattatoio di Roma La Pelanda, Rome, Italien
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Call for Papers
26th International Conference, Principles of Music Composing: Interaction between Technologies and Convention
The conference invites us to explore the interaction of technological innovations and musical conventions, discover their possible tensions and syntheses, and reveal the challenges and opportunities arising from it, allowing us to take a new look at aesthetic, cultural, national and other contexts and to form new identities.
Deadline: 12.09.2026
Datum und Ort: 18.–29.11.2026, Vilnius, Litauen
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Rhythm under the Microscope II
An Interdisciplinary Conference on Microrhythm and Tempo Variability in Popular Music
The conference provides an opportunity for renewed study of microrhythm, including scholarly advances since the first conference, but also opening up to discussions of tempo variability. The conference seeks to bring together musicians and scholars from various disciplines to connect their different perspectives and further the current state of microrhythm, tempo variability, and groove research.
Datum und Ort: 22.–24.10.2026, mdw, Wien
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“Philosophy of Artificial Music. Algorithms, Machine Learning, Data” (Nantes Université, France)
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
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