Call for Works: The Musical Metacreation Concert at the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2017


Key Dates

April 20th   - submission deadline.

May 10th    - notification.

June 18th   - concert rehearsals.

June 19th - MuMe concert. http://musicalmetacreation.org/mume-2017-concert/

June 19th-20th - MuMe Workshop http://musicalmetacreation.org/mume-2017

June 19th-23rd - International Conference on Computational Creativity.

Overview

Creators of musically metacreative systems are invited to submit works for a concert of musical metacreation, as part of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity, at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. 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-organisation; systems that perform music data mining to create remixes, and so on.

Information on the link for submission, selection committee, musicians, concert venue and available equipment will be made available in a follow-up call for works and all up-to-date information can be found here.

Types of Work

Any work related to MuMe that can be presented in a performance context will be considered. This includes:

We are also interested in submissions of musebots and other types of interactive installation works relevant to MuMe.

Submission Process

Please submit a one page A4-portrait PDF describing your work before the submission deadline. Your submission should:

* 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

Submissions should not be anonymised.

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.

Selection Committee,

Venue

The Mammal Gallery

91 Broad St SW, Atlanta, GA 30303

14 minutes by metro from Georgia Tech; 40 minutes on foot.

Mammal has a two channel club sound system, with limited microphones.

http://mammalgallery.com/

Musicians

Members of Chamber Cartel

Upon Acceptance

Artists are required to be in attendance and set up their own equipment. At least one artist must register for the ICCC conference and MuMe workshop.

A schedule for performances, rehearsals and soundchecks will be made available in the week before the concert. Rehearsals will be on the Sunday 18th June unless otherwise arranged. Soundchecks will be prior to the concert on the afternoon of Monday 19th June.

Workshop Organizers

Pr. Arne Eigenfeldt
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University, Canada

Dr. Oliver Bown
Design Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning
The University of Sydney, Australia


Pr. Philippe Pasquier
School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT)
Simon Fraser University, Canada
http://metacreation.net/
https://www.kadenze.com/programs/generative-art-and-computational-creativity

Kıvanç Tatar
School of Interactive Arts and Technology,
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.


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MUME 2017 Workshop

In parallel with the MUME 2017 Concert, we also organise the MUME 2017 Workshop. Details are available at: http://musicalmetacreation.org/mume-2017/


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Kıvanç Tatar
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PhD Student
Interactive Arts and Technology
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Email: kivanctatar@gmail.com
Website: https://kivanctatar.wordpress.com/