Outside the Box: Practice, Participation & Method in Live Electronic Music Conference :: November 16, 2009 :: City University London :: Call for Papers — Deadline: August 30, 2009.

Outside the Box is a one-day postgraduate conference at City University London, featuring paper sessions, a workshop, keynote speaker Leigh Landy, and an evening concert of live electronic music. Postgraduate researchers working in live electronics, from any perspective, are encouraged to submit abstracts for 20 minute presentations (see below for details).

The conference aims to gather together postgraduate researchers in Live Electronic Music and allied disciplines to explore discursively issues and challenges around practice-led research in this area. Given the breadth and diffuseness of activities involved in making and researching Live Electronic Music:

How do we communicate about our practices to each other, either musically or verbally? Are we sure ourselves of what they are? Does this affect our ability to collaborate? How do we establish robust research methods than can account adequately for what we do and experience?

We invite proposals for 20 minute presentations, to be submitted by 30th August 2009.

Please see details on submission, conference themes and sessions.

In addition to paper sessions and opportunities to network with fellow researchers, the conference will feature a workshop on collective electronic play, open equally to beginners and the more experienced. Keynote speaker Leigh Landy will share with the conference the benefit of his extensive experience of, and insights into, practice-led research in electronic music.

The evening concert will feature new live electronic works by City University London composers and a collective performance by a group of special guest researchers from the University of Edinburgh, including Martin Parker, Jules Rawlinson, Sean Williams and Lauren Hayes, in collaboration with conference convener, Owen Green.

Outside the Box… is funded by City University London, the University of Edinburgh and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Beyond Text scheme.