Call for papers

III  INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

SOUND AND AUDIOVISUAL SPACES:

        THE CITY AS A PLACE OF EXPERIMENTATION, 
       CREATION AND PLURISENSORIAL RESEARCH

and JIEM 2016 – 21st COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC DAYS

Centro Superior de Investigación y Promoción de la Música y

Departamento Interfacultativo de Música

2-4 March 2016

CALL FOR PAPERS

            The technical developments connected with electronic and concrete music, along with the interest shown by avant-garde in music of the XX century for exploring new musical dimensions (Varèse, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Berio, Nono…) can find in spatial dimension a fertile place of expressive development. Traditionally the scope of music can be placed in an abstract approach to scores (pitch, melody, movement), or in a merely evocative one (landscapes, nature, structures, cities…) with the Futurist movement, urban noises begin to be considered part of music, being integrated in it, and with the concept of Sound Landscape in the 70s at XXth century the conceptual expansion applied to music experiments a progress oriented towards sound. Space works as a sounding board for daily situations that make possible for sound to come to life and whose sonic expression enables a dynamic image of every place, in which tension and social interrelations sound- space make feasible a dynamic image of every place, in which tension and sound-space interrelations begin with a dialogue leading into a wide range of areas of knowledge. In previous occasions in which this Conference has been held, a wide and deep forum around the concept of sound landscape was put forward, sharing, therefore, the knowledge about arts of time with the one of arts of space. The interaction sound–space, the first time this conference was held and the interaction space-body in the second one, were the focus for artists and researchers.

         Following this trend, this 3rd Conference focus on the analysis of sound and sensorial experiences in urban spaces. Speaking about cities is nowadays one of the most popular topics for research and artistic action. The city, apart from being a potential receptacle of images and sensations dealing with all the senses, experiments deep social, political or technological changes (a reorganization of structures, fluctuations and populational migrations, an architecture of cultural spaces, etc.) in such a quick way that there is hardly time for a critical reflection or for creating an state of consciousness about it. We are living in a continuous mutation, social networks promote new categories and also new economies and the experience of the dwellers turn to be more and more complex, so they can inhabit a variety of places. In this context of transformations without precedent, and such as the social contexts reflected by Programa Marco Horizonte 2020 de la Unión Europea (Europe in a changing world, inclusive, innovative and reflexive societies) we must highlight the necessity to face a series of challenges that demand a common European planning, based on shared scientific knowledge among other ones that social sciences and humanities can offer.

Main topics.

*Music versus sound: electroacustic music, interaction of musical instruments with electronic sound, the treatment of space in music, space and multichannel systems, sound art, sound on stage and museums, sound landscape, urban art.

-      *The city as a place for action and reflection around sound and the multisensory perception. Sound and ubiquitous experience in the city (sound urbanism, sound Ethnography, sound nomadism, dynamics of reality-virtuality. Sound in artistic activities as a driving force for change in the city (activism, society and politics). Sound in the building of a public space (perception, analysis, representation of sound, notation).

-      *Processes of appropriation of public spaces by means of sound dialogue (sensibilization, pedagogy, creation) by means of a sensorial consciousness and the experience of the inhabitants (cultural landscapes, immaterial heritage).

-      *Other topics: an introduction to theories, methods, projects, centers and a variety of initiatives.

The conference includes scientific sessions (lectures, speeches and round tables) to be developed at Campus in UAM, and two concerts in Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS)

Place: Salón de Actos de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UAM  and  Auditorio 400  at  MNCARS- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

Conference Co-Chairs:

José Luis Carles. Departamento Interfacultativo de Música. UAM

Adolfo Núñez. LIEM (INAEM). Departamento Interfacultativo de Música. UAM

Secretary:

María Luisa Luceño. Departamento Interfacultativo de Música. UAM

Topics: development

Cristina Palmese, Jose Luis Carles y Adolfo Núñez

SCIENTIFIC COMMITEE

Antonio Alcázar. UCLM. Cuenca, Spain

Ricardo Atienza. CRESSON. CNRS. Grenoble, France

Javier Boned. Universidad de Málaga, Spain

Margarita Cuéllar. Universidad ICESI. Cali, Colombia

Marta Cureses. Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

Francesc Daumal. UPC, Barcelona, Spain

Jimena De Gortari. Universidad Iberoamericana. Mexico

Jaime del Val. Reverso. Madrid, Spain

Laura Hidalgo. UAM, Madrid, Spain

Joaquina Labajo. UAM, Madrid, Spain

Leigh Landy. MTI, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom

Maria Luisa Luceño. UAM, Madrid, Spain

Joaquín Llorca. Universidad ICESI. Cali, Colombia

Miguel Molina. UPV, Valencia, Spain

Cristina Palmese. Paisaje Sensorial, Estudio de Arquitectura. Madrid, Spain

Spiros Papadopoulos. Universidad de Tessaly, Greece

Miguel Salmerón. UAM, Madrid, Spain

Ana Vega Toscano. Radio Nacional de España, Madrid, Spain

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMUNICATIONS:

Deadlines:  15th  January   2016

Date of confirmation acceptance: 30 January 2016

Submission:

A document in .zip that contains the following documents in .pdf:

- A summary in a maximum of 1200 words, along with the author's name, institution (if applicable), address, telephone, electronic mail address

- Curriculum vitae (1 page)

- A lists of publications (1 page)

- A short biography (300 words)

Requirements for communications:

- Lasting: 20 minutes, plus 5 minutes of questions

- Language: Spanish or English

The room includes videoprojector, DVD / CD player and a stereo sound set.

Chronogram and schedules: 

Wednesday 2^nd March 2016

           Morning and afternoon: conference sessions, invited lecturers and round tables,

             from 10 AM to 6 PM. Salón de Actos, Facultad de Filosofía

Thursday 3rd March 2016

        Morning and afternoon: conference sessions, invited lecturers and round tables,

         from 10 AM to 6 PM. Salón de Actos, Facultad de Filosofía

Concert: Electroacustics and audiovisual works: additional information will be

    provided about works and composers.

Place:  Auditorio 400-MNCARS – Time: 7:30 PM

Friday 4^th March 2016

         Morning and afternoon: conference sessions, invited lecturers and round tables,

         from 10 AM to 6 PM. Salón de Actos, Facultad de Filosofía

         Concert: selected works from the call "The Laboratory of Space 2016"

Place:   Auditorio 400-MNCARS – Time: 7:30 PM

Languages of the Conference:

         Spanish, English

Registration fees:

        

* Contributors: 60 € 

* External Attendants: 40 €

* Attendants from UAM: 20 €    

Registration and payment:     

Registration will be made by means of Fundación de la Universidad Autónoma  (FUAM) webpage, that offers also the possibility of an on-line payment.

http://congresos.fuam.es/fuamcongresos/iii-congreso-internacional-espacios-sonoros-y-audiovisuales-la-ciudad-como-lugar-de-experimentacion-creacion-e-investigacion-plurisensorial/home

Choose: 

 COMUNICANTES

ASISTENTES EXTERNOS UAM

 ESTUDIANTES UAM

Registration dates:

From   15t December 2015 up to 30th February 2016.

POST Address of the Conference:

Facultad de Formación del Profesorado

Modulo IV Departamento de Música, despacho 210

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Crta. Colmenar Viejo, Km. 15,5

MADRID 28049, Spain.

        

E-mail address:    espacios.sonoros2016@uam.es

In this and the following newsletters, with information concerning organizational matters, accomodation and other pieces of information for contributors and attendants at the conference will be available at the blog devoted to the Conference: 

http://espaciossonoros2016.blogspot.com.es/

ECTS CREDITS:

One ECTS credit will be given to students from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid enrolled in a Grado. So as to obtain this credit the students will have to be recognized their attendance to the sessions of the Conference, and write a paper (the guidelines for making this paper will be provided at the Conference).