International Computer Music Conference

The theme for ICMC 2007 was "Immersed Music". In keeping with this theme, there was an underwater hydraulophone performance at the DGI-byen swimcenter Vandkulturhuset.

Audience members at the ICMC 2007 underwater immersed-music hydraulophone concert

The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) is a yearly international conference for computer music researchers and composers. It is the annual conference of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA).

Each year there is a specific theme. For example, in 2007, the theme was "Immersed Music" and immersive media. ICMC 2007 took place in Copenhagen. On Tuesday August 28th, there was an "Underwater/Water Concert" at the DGI-byen swimcenter, in the hundred-metre DGI-byen pool, as well as the various other pools of the Vandkulturhuset.

This Immersed Music theme of ICMC 2007 explored important issues in musical instrument classification and immersion.

Areas included

• Algorithmic composition
• Alternate Loudspeaker Construction and Design
• Architectural acoustics
• Artificial intelligence and Music
• Aesthetics, Philosophy, Analysis, Appreciation, Criticism
• Acoustics of Musical instruments and the Voice
• Audio analysis/resynthesis
• Audio coding and Audio compression
• Audio hardware
• Audio programming languages and software tools
• Audio signal processing
• Composition systems and techniques
• Computational Neuroscience of Music
• Computer music and Digital Art
• Computer Music Performance Practice
• Digital Audio Coding
• Digital audio signal processing
• Education on Music and Technology
• Evolutionary Computer Music
• Gestural and haptic interfaces for music
• Granular synthesis
• History of Electro-acoustic and Computer Music
• Interactive performance systems
• Loudspeaker and Microphone arrays
• Machine recognition of Audio
• Machine Recognition of Music
• MIDI Applications
• Musical analysis
• Music Data Structures and Representations
• Music education
• Music grammars
• Music information retrieval
• Music languages
• Music notation and Printing
• Music workstations
• Musical informatics
• Performance interfaces
• Psychoacoustics, Perception, and Cognition
• Real-Time systems
• Room acoustics
• Sound in Multimedia
• Sound diffusion and Spatialization
• Sound synthesis languages
• Sound synthesis Methods
• Studio Reports
• Studio Designs
• Tuning and Intonation
• Wireless Audio Systems

Other related conferences

Similarly themed conferences include

• DAFX, Digital Audio Effects
• NIME, New Interfaces for Musical Expression;
• ACM Multimedia
• SIGGRAPH
• ISMIR
• SMC, Sound and Music Computing Conference

External links

• ICMA — International Computer Music Association
• ICMC 2006 — The 2006 Conference Website, hosted by Tulane University
• ICMC 2008 — The 2008 Conference Website, hosted by the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast