FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MOBILE MUSIC TECHNOLOGY 2007
6-8 MAY 2007, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
http://www.mobilemusicworkshop.org/
Submission deadline: 12th March 2007
Combining music and mobile technology promises exciting future
developments in a rapidly emerging field. Devices such as mobile
phones, Walkmans and iPods have already brought music to the ever-
changing social and geographic locations of their users and reshaped
their experience of the urban landscape. With new properties such as
ad hoc networking, Internet connection, and context-awareness, mobile
music technology offers countless new artistic, commercial and socio-
cultural opportunities for music creation, listening and sharing. How
can we push forward the already successful combination of music and
mobile technology? What new forms of interaction with music lie
ahead, as locative media and music use merge into new forms of
everyday experiences?
This series of annual workshops began to explore and establish the
emerging field of mobile music technology in 2004. This fourth
edition of the Mobile Music Workshop in 2007 offers a unique
opportunity to participate in the development of mobile music and
hands-on experience of cutting-edge technology.
This year’s workshop is hosted by STEIM and Waag Society in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and partners with the Futuresonic
Festival in Manchester, England, taking place later the same week.
The programme of the workshop will consist of keynote presentations
from invited speakers, peer-reviewed paper presentations, poster
sessions, in-depth discussions about the crucial issues of mobile
music technology, demos of state-of-the-art projects, break-out
sessions and live events. Registered participants will take part in
hands-on sessions conducted by leaders in the field. In addition to
traditional presentation sessions, the programme includes events open
to a general audience, facilitating the presentation of artworks and
technological breakthroughs to a wider public.
The Mobile Music Workshop sets the stage for a collaboration that
brings together leading institutions in both experimental electronic
music and mobile media. STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental
music) is a centre for electronic music production well known in the
performing arts. STEIM promotes the idea that Touch is crucial in
communicating with electronic and digital arts technologies, a vision
that over the years has given birth to physical, sensor-based musical
instruments. Waag Society is a research and development institute in
the fields of networked art, education and creative industries. Waag
develops platforms for artists to reach society through networked
collaboration, media streaming, and locative media.
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS AND WORKS
We invite practitioners, artists, designers, hackers and researchers
from all areas, including music, technology development, new media,
sound-art, music distribution, cultural/media studies, locative media
and industry to submit work and register to attend.
Don't miss this chance to help shape the mobile music landscape of
the future!
Participants are encouraged to submit their work in mobile music
technology to the categories below. The partnership with the
Futuresonic Festival (http://www.futuresonic.com/) allows those
coming to Europe to make a single trip to attend both events.
Papers
We invite submissions of workshop papers presenting new projects,
approaches or reflections exploring the topic of mobile music.
Potential submissions could include but are not limited to mobile
music systems or enabling technologies, interface design, legal
issues, user studies, ethnographic fieldwork, social implications,
art pieces and other areas relevant to mobile music.
Accepted paper authors will be given a time slot during the workshop
for presentation and discussion of their work.
Format: up to 8 pages in ACM SIG publications format (shorter papers
welcome). For templates, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/
template.html
Posters
We also invite the contribution of posters that document work-in-
progress projects or ideas in similar areas of mobile music
technology as the papers.
Posters will be on display during the duration of the conference. We
will arrange a poster presentation session where attendees will be
able to discuss the works with the authors.
Format: 2 pages in ACM SIG publications format
Demonstrations
We also invite submissions of work to the demo category. Besides
encouraging paper and poster presenters to bring a demonstration as a
complement their presentation, we encourage submissions of stand-
alone demos of mobile music systems or enabling technology. Their
implementation should be ready enough to be demoed, and will possibly
be shown to the general public during open sessions depending on
their robustness.
Format: 2 pages in ACM SIG publications format.
SUBMISSIONS
Please email your submission as a PDF file in the appropriate format
to [log in to unmask]
In the subject line, state MMW SUBMISSION followed by PAPER, POSTER
or DEMO and the name of the main author.
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by a committee of international
specialists in the fields of mobile music, interactive music, and
locative media.
DEADLINES
Submission deadline: 12th March 2007
Notification of acceptance: 2nd April 2007
Registration deadline: 16th April 2007
Final submission deadline: 16th April 2007
REGISTRATION & FEE
This year’s workshop will have both closed sessions for registered
participants and sessions open to the general public. The number of
participants for the closed sessions of the workshop is limited to 50
places. Accepted submitters are given priority, other participants
are accepted on a first-come first-served basis. Registered
participants will have automatic access to all sessions of the
workshops.
The closed sessions of the workshop will be charged both a regular
and a reduced student fee, similar to the last edition’s fees.
Registration deadline: 16th April 2007
The open sessions will be advertised in more detail closer to the
event. The fee for the open sessions will be event-based.
Scheduling and registration fees will be coordinated with Futuresonic
to allow participants to easily attend both events.
ORGANISERS
International Steering Committee
Atau Tanaka (Sony CSL Paris, France)
Frauke Behrendt (University of Sussex, UK)
Lalya Gaye (Viktoria Institute, Sweden)
Local Organising Committee
Kristina Andersen (STEIM, The Netherlands)
Robert van Heumen (STEIM, The Netherlands)
Ronald Lenz (Waag Society, The Netherlands)
MORE INFORMATION
For more information about the previous and up-coming workshops, the
ACM SIG publications format as well as travel and accommodation
information, please consult:
http://www.mobilemusicworkshop.org/
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