The 17th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2016, will be held in New York City, USA, from Monday, August 8 to Thursday, August 11, 2016.

The annual conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) is the world’s leading research forum on processing, analyzing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data. Music becomes music after being processed by the human mind and each person perceives the music in a different and complex way. Therefore, this conference embraces the complexity and diversity of music by showcasing ideas and applications that aim to enhance the way in which we interact with music.

Music-IR is a truly interdisciplinary area, involving researchers, developers, educators, librarians, students and professionals from the disciplines of musicology, cognitive science, library and information science, computer science, electrical engineering and many others. Therefore, like previous ISMIR editions, ISMIR 2016 will provide a venue for the exchange of ideas, issues, results and perspectives among the different profiles of people working with music and computing in a broad sense. ISMIR 2016 will cover the entire area of Music-IR, providing ample room for diversity and new developments.

Accepting submissions for

Conference Papers
Tutorials
Late-breaking Papers & Demos

Other ways to participate

ISMIR ThinkTank Summer School
HAMR Hackathon
CogMIR Satellite Event

Topics of Interest

MIR Data and Fundamentals
music signal processing
symbolic music processing
metadata, linked data and semantic web
social tags and user generated data
natural language processing, text and web mining
multi-modal approaches to MIR
Methodology
methodological issues and philosophical foundations
evaluation methodology
corpus creation
legal, social and ethical issues
Domain Knowledge
representation of musical knowledge and meaning
music perception and cognition
computational music theory
computational musicology and ethnomusicology
Musical Features and Properties
melody and motives
harmony, chords and tonality
rhythm, beat, tempo
structure, segmentation and form
timbre, instrumentation and voice
musical style and genre
musical affect, emotion and mood
expression and performative aspects of music
Music Processing
sound source separation
music transcription and annotation
optical music recognition
alignment, synchronization and score following
music summarization
music synthesis and transformation
fingerprinting
automatic classification
indexing and querying
pattern matching and detection
similarity metrics
Application
user behavior and modelling
user interfaces and interaction
digital libraries and archives
music retrieval systems
music recommendation and playlist generation
music and health, well-being and therapy
music training and education
MIR applications in music composition, performance and production
music and gaming
MIR in business and marketing

Technical Program Notes

All papers will go through a double-blind selection process with at least three reviewers per submission. Accepted papers will be designated by the Program Committee to be presented either as posters or as lectures. All accepted papers have the same status, assignment as poster or lecture is not indicative of the relevance or potential impact but on the type of content and way to better reach the intended audience. Papers will be no more than 6-pages long not including citations.