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Dear Linux Audio developer, user, composer, musician, philosopher and anyone else interested, you are invited to the...

Linux Audio Conference 2011 The Open Source Music and Audio Software Conference

May 6-8 2011 Music Department, National University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth, Co.Kildare, Ireland http://music.nuim.ie

As in previous years, we will have a full programme of talks, workshops and music. Two calls will be issued, a Call for Papers (see below) and Call for Music (soon to be announced).

Further information will be found in the LAC2011 website (under construction).

================ CALL FOR PAPERS =================

Papers on the following categories (but not limited to them) are now invited for submission:

• Ambisonics
• Education
• Live performance
• Audio Hardware Support
• Signal Processing
• Music Composition
• Audio Languages
• Sound Synthesis
• Audio Plugins
• MIDI
• Music Production
• Linux Kernel
• Physical Computing
• Interface Design
• Linux Distributions
• Networked Audio
• Video
• Games
• Media Art
• Licensing

We very much welcome practical papers resp. software demos ("how I use Linux Audio applications to create my music/media art").

Paper length: 4-8 pages, with abstract (50-100 words) and up to 5 keywords. Language: English. The copyright of the paper remains with the author, but we reserve the right to create printed proceedings from all submitted (and accepted) papers.

IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: 15/January 2011 Notification of acceptance: 7/March 2011 Camera-ready papers: 1/April 2011

Queries: Victor Lazzarini, NUI Maynnooth (victor.lazzarini@nuim.ie)