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MUME 2019 Concert - 2nd CALL FOR WORKS
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The 7th International Workshop on Musical Metacreation
June 17-18, 2019, Charlotte, North Carolina
=== Important Dates ===
submission deadline: March 24, 2019
notification date: April 28, 2019
concert dates: June 17 evening, 2019
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Overview
Creators of musically metacreative systems are invited to submit works for a concert of musical metacreation, as part of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019, at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Submitted works can be of any musical style, but must involve a performative element and must involve the use of computational creativity techniques in the creation of the work. Examples from previous MuMe concerts include, but are not limited to: reproduction of musical style using machine learning; the evolution of musical structures using interactive genetic algorithms; rule-based systems; systems based on emergence or self-organization; systems that perform music data mining to create remixes, and so on.
Types of Work
Any work related to MuMe that can be presented in a performance context will be considered. This includes:
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Improvising agents that perform alongside live musicians.
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Automated composition systems that generate music in real-time or pre-compose music for performers, as well as automated DJ systems.
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Systems that use AI methods for other creative objectives, such as harmonizing, intelligent looping, or finding suitable matches for a target
phrase.
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Systems that generate lyrics.
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Music that uses evolution, emergence or ecosystemic concepts.
Submission Process
Please submit a two page A4-portrait PDF describing your work before the submission deadline. Email your submission to chairs@musicalmetacreation.org. Submissions should not be anonymized. Your submission should: -
Describe the work.
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Explain how the work relates to the MuMe theme.
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Give a relatively detailed technical description of the system*.
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Give detailed performance requirements. As necessary, this may include a stage plan, equipment needs, technical support needs, and performing
musicians (you can use additional PDF pages for any supporting items).
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Provide a link to any additional documentary material such as audio or video recordings, or online software (highly recommended).
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Give credits and biography (name, affiliation, short biography up to 150 words).
* It is common to receive submissions that are highly ambiguous about what the proposed system actually does. Works will be rejected if this is the case. The description does not need to be highly technically detailed but it should remove any fundamental ambiguity.
Selection Process
All submissions will be reviewed by three independent members of the selection committee. Once these reviews have been completed the reviewers and the chairs will discuss these works and reviews. The chairs will provide a meta-review, the three original reviews, and a final decision. Reviewers will be anonymous to the authors, but not to each other. The final decision lies with the chairs, in consultation with the committee.
Upon Acceptance
Artists are required to be in attendance and set up their own equipment. At least one artist must register for the MuMe workshop.
A schedule for performances, rehearsals and soundchecks will be made available in the week before the concert.
Follow us on Twitter @MetaMusical.
Workshop Organizers
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Program Co-Chair
Robert M. Keller, Professor
Computer Science Department
Harvey Mudd College
301 Platt Blvd
Claremont, CA 91711 USA
Program Co-Chair
Bob L. Sturm, Associate Professor
Tal, Musik och Hörsel (Speech, Music and Hearing)
Lindstedtsvägen 24
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Sweden
Concert Chair
Gus Xia, Assistant Professor
Computer Science
NYU Shanghai
Publicity Chair
Dr. Oliver Bown
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Art & Design, The University of New South Wales
Room AG12, Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd,
Paddington, NSW, 2021, Australia
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MUME Steering Committee
Andrew Brown
Griffith University, Australia
Anna Jordanous
University of Kent, UK
Róisín Loughran
University College Dublin, Ireland
Michael Casey
Dartmouth College, US
Benjamin Smith
Purdue University Indianapolis, US
Philippe Pasquier
Simon Fraser University
Arne Eigenfledt
Simon Fraser University