2013 International Computer Music Conference - Tura New Music

Keynotes include Agostino Di Scipio (Italy), Alvin Curran (USA), Warren Burt (Australia) and Haco (Japan).

Tura New Music in association with The International Computer Music Association, Edith Cowan University and The Australasian Computer Music Association announces: The 2013 International Computer Music Conference

The 2013 ICMC also incorporates the regional Australasian Computer Music Conference and is part of the 11th Totally Huge New Music Festival, Perth, Western Australia. The Conference will include paper presentations from leading exponents and the showcase the latest in electronic and acoustic music from around the globe through The Festival program.

 Conference Co-Covenor Lindsay Vickery says: ”For the first time in its nearly forty year history, the International Computer Music Conference will be held outside the northern hemisphere,hhere in Perth. The conference is the world's peak gathering of performers and researchers advancing the frontiers of electronic music.” 

The Conference and Festival will be based in and around the Perth Culture Centre including The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, The State Library of WA and The Western Australian Museum.

The conference theme for 2013 is IDEA - International Developments in ElectroAcoustics.

The conference encourages the submission of papers and works on and for computer music and digital audio, including:

• Aesthetics, 
• Composition, 
• Education, 
• Musicology, as well as perceptual, scientific and technical aspects.

Conference Convenors: Cat Hope (ECU), Lindsay Vickery (ECU), Tos Mahoney (Tura New Music)

Tura New Music

Tura New Music Ltd is a not for profit music organisation based in Perth, Western Australia. Tura is a producer as well as resource centre and advocate for New Music. Founded in 1987 Tura has a proud history of achievement in initiating cultural development in Western Australia from inner city Perth to remote communities of Western Australia.

Tura houses an impressive archive of Western Australian New Music material which is currently being catalogued and prepared for establishing an online archive, in partnership with Edith Cowan University. As a service provider, Tura supports the careers of composers, sound artists and performers as well as advising a broad range of organisations on New Music and sound initiatives.