The Korea Electro-Acoustic Music Society (KEAMS) announces a call for proposals for the 2018 KEAMS Annual Conference (KEAMSAC) and the journal Emille.
We are delighted to invite Tae Hong Park as this year’s keynote speaker.

If you want your paper to be considered for the 2018 KEAMS Conference, please send an abstract or proposal (maximum of 2,000-characters including spaces) and curriculum vitae as PDF documents to emille[at]keams.org by Sep. 3.


Selected papers from the conference will be published in Emille Vol. 16.

KEAMSAC was formed to promote active research and discussion on electro-acoustic music, and this year's conference will be held in Sep. 28-30 in Seoul, Korea. This event will go with the Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2018(SICMF 2018: http://www.computermusic.asia/).

Language
Conference Presentation: English
Conference Article: English or Korean
Journal Article: English or Korean


Categories
For the KEAMS conference, the following topics are encouraged:
  a) Creative Encounters between Music and Science
  b) Multidisciplinary or Interdisciplinary Research
      (co-authors acceptable)
  c) Systematic Musicology
       - Computational Musicology
       - Computational Music Theory
  d) Analysis of Electronic and Computer-based Music
  e) Sound Synthesis
  f) Music Psychology
  g) Instrumentation
  h) Development of Electronically-extended
      Musical Instruments
  i) Music Software Engineering
  j) Artificial Musical Intelligence
  k) Computer-aided Composition/Analysis
  l) Automatic Composition
  m) Aesthetics
  etc.

Important Dates
- Deadline for Proposal Submission
    September 3, 2018

- Notification of Acceptance of the Proposal
    September 10, 2018

- Deadline for Paper Submission for the Conference Proceedings
    September 26, 2018

- Conference
    September 28-30, 2018

- Notification of Selected Paper for the Journal Emille
    November 30, 2018

- Deadline for Final Paper Submission
    December 15, 2018

Session Formats
1. Each session will consist of three to four presentations.
2. Each paper will be presented in person for about 25 minutes followed by ca. 5 minutes of discussion.
3. Video conferencing over the Internet may situationally be available.


Fees and Accommodation
Thanks to the financial support of the Art Council Korea, the registration and publication fee will be waived, and accommodation also will be provided for two nights.

It is also possible for students and non-experts in the fields mentioned above to submit proposals for the conference and the journal, Emille.
All proposals will be screened by the program committee and selected solely based on the quality of the research and topic.


We are welcome any ideas for electro-acoustic music research from you, and believe them to be precious assets for the conference and the journal.

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