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Volume 8, Number 3 Issue thematic title: Performing with Technology Date of Publication: December 2003 Publishers: Cambridge University Press Issue Co-ordinators: Margaret Schedel [[EMAIL PROTECTED]], and John P. Young [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]. This issue is being prepared in collaboration with the International Computer Music Association (ICMA). Performing with Technology Technology enables and facilitates modes of performance that would be otherwise impossible or impractical. Often both research and exhibition contexts emphasize technological development without commensurate reflection on how such technology impacts upon performers -- does it integrate with traditional performance practice, encourage evolution thereof, or challenge conception of new performance frameworks necessary to fulfil the promise of new tools? At what point does a tool become an instrument? Is it more effective to customize an instrument for a performer or force the performer to adapt to the instrument? Will there ever be an electronic instrument comparable to the piano that everyone learns how to play that remains relatively unchanged over generations, and is expressive across a broad range of styles, genres, and aesthetics? Is such a goal even still desirable? This issue aims to provoke and grapple with such questions and any others that explore the relationship of technology and musical _expression in a thoughtful and illuminating context This issue continues the annual partnership between Organised Sound and the International Computer Music Association begun with Issue 7, No. 3: "Interactivity". The ICMA has long been dedicated to bringing together researchers, composers, and performers to chart the frontiers of music and technology, but has been criticized for focusing more on theory than practice. With the theme of "Performing with Technology" we hope to balance the discourse by emphasizing the crucial role of performance in the digital music present and future. This issue will be co-ordinated by the ICMA Array Editor, Margaret Schedel, and Publications Co-ordinator, John P. Young. Suggested topics for exploration include: Aesthetics of performing with technology Interactive performance systems Virtuosic / naive techniques Digitally-enhanced acoustic instruments Notation / dynamic score Distributed group performance Installation performance Intermedia / collaborative performance Dance / body as instrument Alternative sound reproduction paradigms Diffusion / spatialisation Composer's studio as instrument Laptop music / live remix / improvisation Autonomous performance / A.I. Environment / presentation We invite submissions from composers, performers and researchers working in the realm of digital performance. Submissions related to the theme are encouraged, but those that fall outside the scope of this theme will also receive consideration. Deadline for submissions is 1 June 2003. Submissions may consist of papers, with optional supporting short compositions or excerpts, and/or audio-visual documentation of performances. �Supporting audio and audio-visual material will be presented as part of the journal's annual CD-ROM which will appear with issue 8/3. Related discussion will be located on the ICMA Array website, www.computermusic.org/array.php (Americas) or http://www.notam.uio.no/icma/array.php (Europe), and additional multimedia material at the Cambridge University Press website. --- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 March 2003 SUBMISSION FORMAT Notes for Contributors and further details can be obtained from the inside back cover of published issues of Organised Sound or from: http://uk.cambridge.org/journals/oso/ Hard copy of articles and other material should be submitted to: ���The Editors ���Organised Sound ���Centre for Technology and the Arts ���Clephan Building ���De Montfort University ���Leicester LE1 9BH, UK. Email submissions should be sent to (please see SUBMISSION FORMAT above): [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Editors: Leigh Landy and Tony Myatt Associate Editors: Ross Kirk and Richard Orton Regional Editors: ���Cort Lippe, Eduardo Miranda, Shimoda Nobuhisa, Joran Rudi, Barry ���Truax, Ian Whalley, David Worrall ICMA Representative: Mary Simoni International Editorial Board: ���Marc Battier, Laurant Bayle, Allesandro Cipriani, Francis Dhomont, ���Simon Emmerson, Rajmil Fischman, David Howard, Miller Puckette, ���Jean-Claude Risset, Francis Rumsey, Trevor Wishart ===== Aeolus Audio Productions Scotland ------ http://www.magneticmigration.net http://www.imaging.dundee.ac.uk/people/zoe/Text/Index.htm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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