The Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI), the Division of Composition Studies in the College of Music at the University of North Texas will host the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Denton (Texas, USA) from September 25th to October 1st 2015. We encourage the submission of papers, posters, and demonstrations examining any topic related to computer music and digital audio, including aesthetic, compositional, educational, musicological, perceptual, scientific and technical aspects.



Paper Topics
The theme of the conference, “Looking Back, Looking Forward” invites participants to reflect on the innovations, developments and artistic challenges over the past century, and to articulate a vision for the future. Have the major challenges faced in computer music and research changed over the past century? What are the leading issues in Computer Music today?

Submissions will be considered on any topic, however special topics for the 2015 conference include:

Digital Communities
Big Data
Telematic Music
Intermedia
3D printing
New Media
Virtual reality
Futurism
Robotics
Mobile Music Computing
Other general content areas may include:

Acoustics of Music
Aesthetics, Theory and Philosophy
Algorithmic Composition
Analysis of Electroacoustic Music
Analysis/Synthesis
Artificial Intelligence and Music
Composition Systems and Techniques
Computational Musicology
Computer Systems in Music Education
Digital Audio Signal Processing and Audio Effects
History of Electroacoustic Music
Interaction and Improvisation
Languages for Computer Music
Live Coding
Mathematical Music Theory
Music Information Retrieval
New Interfaces for Musical Expression
Perception and Cognition of Sound and Music
Physical Modeling and Instrumental Acoustics
Representation and Models for Computer Music
Software and Hardware Systems
Spatialisation Techniques
Studio Reports
All submissions documents must be sent electronically only through the Conference Management System.



Important Dates
The online submission system will open on January 11th, 2015.

Key dates for submissions are:

Paper Submission site open: January 11th, 2015
Full paper submission deadline: February 8th, 2015 (UTC -7)
Paper decision notification: April 19th, 2015
Final ‘Camera-Ready’ paper deadline: May 10th, 2015
Registration deadline June 14st, 2015


Submission Requirements
Please review all of the detailed requirements below before submitting your paper.

Please make sure that you use US Letter Size (8-1/2” by 11” or 216mm by 279mm) paper layout. We strongly recommend that you use the Word or LaTeX template files to format your paper correctly for submission:

MS Word Template
LaTeX Template
Papers should be submitted in PDF format through the Conference Management System. Please make sure that all author information is removed from the submitted paper in order to provide fairness and transparency in the reviewing process.



Submission Types
Please submit PDFs with all author information removed for blind review for the following presentation categories:

Short Paper
4 pages maximum in Proceedings, 15 minutes lecture presentation + 5 minutes for questions.

Long Paper
8 pages maximum in Proceedings, 25 minutes lecture presentation + 5 minutes for questions.

Piece and Paper
Papers linked with a work to be programmed. 4 pages maximum in Proceedings.

Poster
4 pages maximum in Proceedings.

Demonstration (extensive amplification of papers presented at the ICMC or stand-alone demonstrations of software or hardware)
4 pages maximum in Proceedings.

Studio Report (reports on computer music facilities and studio activities)
4 pages maximum in Proceedings, poster presentation or 15 minutes lecture presentation + 5 minutes for questions.

Papers should be a substantial contribution to the field and must be accompanied by a written submission, which may be up to 4 (short) or 8 (long) pages including images and references. Posters and demonstrations are a forum for discussion of work-in-progress and/or significant or important results that are better suited for more interactive presentation. They must be accompanied by a written paper submission of up to 4 pages in length including images and references. Posters will be presented on a 24” by 36” size sheet during a poster session. Demonstrations will be presented during a poster session. All submissions will be subject to blind review by an international panel. After the notification of acceptance, authors will be requested to submit their camera-ready papers taking into account the reviews. One of the authors must present the work at the conference (and pay the registration fee by June 14th 2015) for it to appear in the proceedings. In exceptional circumstances, the paper chair may propose a more suitable format than the one proposed (i.e. long rather than short paper, demonstration rather than poster).



Registration Regulation
For presentation at the Conference and publication in the Proceedings of the ICMC2015 Conference, a unique registration of one (co-)author per paper (of any submission type) is required by June 14th, 2015. Individuals may appear as co–authors in several papers (of any submission type), but multiple registrations per author/ participant and multiple submissions of single-authored papers will not be accepted.



Contact
For questions or clarifications, you can contact the paper-chair.