[Air-L] Fwd: music & hacking conference (annule et remplace le précédent)

[Camille Paloque-Berges]

Dear all,
there's a closing call coming up for a Conference on Music and Hacking in
Paris (November 2017). It will welcome contributions on Internet-mediated
muisc and hacking practices.
Kindly,
Camille Paloque-Berges

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Reminder/Rappel: CFP Music & Hacking International Conference (Musée du
quai Branly & IRCAM, Paris, 8th-10th November 2017)

Apologies for cross-posting

The “Music & Hacking: Instruments, Communities, Values” conference intends
to look at musicians and technicians’ practices which – explicitly or
implicitly – could be seen as musical hacking activities.

Since the turn of the last century, computer coding and digital instruments
continue to transform the aesthetic, ergonomic, communicational, and
ethical dimensions of musical practices. These shifts are taking place in
part under the banner of hacking, a notion which is primarily associated
with the IT world. However, it has progressively infiltrated and structured
a number of other fields, such as that of artistic creation. Hacker values
include re-appropriation of mass-produced technical products and a focus on
freely accessible communal know-how, as well as the pleasure of
serendipity, subversion, and manipulation. In sum, hacking is the
foundation of a disparate, discreet form of social protest: a reaction to a
normalized, globalized commercial and industrial culture.

The conference will focus on three general themes: organological hacking,
creation and federation of musical communities through hacking, and the
influence of hacker ethics on musical practices. At the end of the
conference, a Music Hack Day will be organized on the premises of IRCAM,
which will give us a chance to extend and test our reflections on musical
hacking.

*Themes*

·      Invention and subversion of instruments

·      Non-conformist instrumental practices

·      Hacking, organology, museology

·      DIY, circuit bending, and making

·      Squats, fab labs, and makerspaces

·      Hacking and socializations

·      Opportunity, serendipity, and innovation

·      Music and open source

·      Musical hacking and intellectual property

·      Hacker ethics and axiology

·      Coding and transcoding music

·      Musical hacking and the emergence of digital culture

·      Musical hacking and the history of information technologies

·      Musical hacking and digital art forms

·      Cultural industries and counter-cultures

·      Music Hack Days, tech providers, and web audio

·      Demoscene and derivations of hacking

Please visit http://hacking2017.ircam.fr for more details.

Proposals (either in English or French) are due on *May 15th, 2017*, and
should be sent to musiquehacking2017 at gmail.com. Authors will be notified of
their participation on *July* *1st, 2017 *at the latest. Proposals, in .doc
format, should include a title and an abstract of approximately 500 words,
the author’s name and institutional affiliation, as well as a brief
biography.

Proposals for demos, workshops or performances will be taken into
consideration for inclusion in the concluding Music Hack Day.

*Scientific committee*

Paul ADENOT (Mozilla), Sébastien BROCA (CEMTI, Université Paris 8), Nicolas
COLLINS (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Joanna DEMERS (University
of Southern California, Thorton School of Music), Nicolas DONIN (APM,
IRCAM), Christine GUILLEBAUD (CREM, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre),
Michel LALLEMENT (LISE, CNAM), Paul LAMERE (The Echo Nest), Camille
PALOQUE-BERGÈS (HT2S, CNAM), Norbert SCHNELL (ISMM, IRCAM), Jimena
ROYO-LETELIER (Deezer)

*Organizing committee*

Baptiste BACOT (EHESS/IRCAM), Clément CANONNE (APM, IRCAM), Frédéric KECK
(MQB) and Guillaume PELLERIN (APM, IRCAM)


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Institutional email address : camille.paloque_berges at cnam.fr
*Laboratory for the History of Techno-Sciences (HT2S), Conservatoire
national des arts et métiers, 2 rue Conté, 75003 Paris, France
*Associate researcher at the Digital Paths cluster of CNRS' Institute for
Communication Sciences (ISCC)