The 6th International Csound Conference – ICSC2022 will take
place in Athlone, Ireland
From November 4th to November 6th 2022
We welcome you to come and join us for three days of music, discussions, installations, workshops and more!
This years event will be hosted in Athlone, at the recently established Technological University of the Shannon
Midlands campus.
The ICSC is an artistic and academic event where members of the international Csound community meet for three
days of concerts, paper presentations, keynote talks and round tables.
Everyone is cordially invited to submit proposals for papers, music, installations and workshops, or to simply
just come along.
TUS Midlands
University Road,
Athlone,
Co.Westmeath
Ireland
N37 HD68
Getting Here
From Dublin to Athlone
Train to Athlone City from Heuston Station. Irish Rail
website
Duration: 1 hour 19 min
Citylink Bus (763) Direct to TUS campus. Citylink website
Duration: 1 hour 50 min
Aircoach Bus to Athlone City. Aircoach website
Duration: 1 hour 26 min
From Galway to Athlone
Train to Athlone City from Galway Train Station. Irish Rail
website
Duration: 1 hour 11 min
Citylink Bus (763) Direct to TUS campus. Citylink website
Duration: 1 hour 30 min
Aircoach Bus to Athlone City. Aircoach website
Duration: 1 hour 8 min
From Athlone to TUS campus
A2 from Athlone Train Station. Bus
Route
Duration: 35 min
We are now accepting submissions of music, papers and workshops covering all topics related to Csound
We are particularly interested in proposals for sound installations, workshops and non duration-specific
sound
works.
There are several acoustically isolated spaces available for such pieces, so please get in touch via email
to
discuss viability.
Call for papers
Papers are welcome on all topics related to Csound. The list of topics of
interest includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Csound as an educational tool
- novel sound synthesis and/or processing techniques
- new Csound opcodes
- new interfaces, front ends and development environments
- Csound in real time
- Csound on embedded systems
- live coding with Csound
- Csound in web-based applications
- algorithmic composition with Csound
- creative and interdisciplinary projects using Csound
Submissions and guidelines
All papers are to be submitted through the EasyChair conference system, and will be peer-reviewed in a double blind process by a
qualified committee.
The maximum paper length is six pages including abstract, figures, tables and eventual references. An
additional seventh page is accepted provided it only includes references.
To guarantee the double blind review process, manuscripts should not include the author names nor
affiliations.
Templates
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the provided template, that also includes more detailed
formatting
guidelines.
Call for Music
Pieces are welcome in all styles, realised using Csound. All pieces will be reviewed in a double blind
process
by a qualified music committee.
Submissions will be accepted in the following categories:
- electronic music on fixed medium
- live electronics
- mixed pieces for instrument(s) and electronics
- electronic music with a visual component
Two systems will be available for sound diffusion: a stereo 2.1 system, and an octophonic 8.1 system
distributed in a regular octagon.
More details about the 8-channel sound system and loudspeaker layout can be found in this document.
Submissions and guidelines
Everyone is invited to submit more than one piece; however, only
one piece per author will be accepted.
Please note that while the maximum
duration for music submissions is 16 minutes, shorter pieces might have a better chance to
be accepted. Submissions in these categories should be for one of
the two setups described above; other loudspeaker layouts will not be
available.
Pieces including live performance can be programmed only if the
composer(s) provide the necessary performers.
To submit, please send an email to icsc2022.music@gmail.com,
and
set the Subject to the title of your piece.
In the body of the message include a link to a downloadable
compressed archive containing two files:
- the submission form, with all fields appropriately filled;
- a lossless compressed recording of the piece in FLAC format. In case of 8-channel pieces, please submit
a
stereo downmix, the multichannel version will be requested in case of acceptance. For submissions in
category
3, the recording should include the instrumental part(s). Submissions of pieces without a fixed version
(live
electronics, interactive pieces, sound installations) should include a recording of an example realization
of
the piece, together with a complete description in the submission form.
The compressed archive file can be in any standard format, like .zip, .7-zip, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, etc.
Call for Installations
Sound installations and site-specific sound art are welcomed. We have a number of interesting spaces, some
open, some isolated,
which may be suitable for your piece, get in touch if you have
specific questions about the available spaces.
Submissions and guidelines
Proposals for sound installations do not have a priori
limitations in duration or sound system required. Their acceptance,
however, will be subject to their feasibility.
To submit, please send an email to icsc2022.music@gmail.com,
and
set the Subject to the title of your piece.
In the email please attach this completed submission
form, with all fields appropriately filled.
Please include links to previous work or other supporting material in the section provided in the submission
form. Use permanent links such as Google Drive or Dropbox, not links that will expire such as WeTransfer.
Call for Workshops
If you have an idea for a workshop, be it software or hardware-based, we'd love to hear about it.
There are some great facilities available in the Engineering building at TUS that can cater for a range of
workshops, get in touch if you have specific questions about
the
facilities.
Submissions and guidelines
Proposals for workshops will be will be subject to their feasibility.
To submit, please send an email to icsc2022.music@gmail.com,
and
set the Subject to the title of your piece.
In the email please attach this completed submission
form,
with all fields appropriately filled.
Please include links to previuos work or other supporting material in the section provided in the submission
form. Use permanent links such as Google Drive or Dropbox, not links that will expire such as WeTransfer.
For further inquiries about submissions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Registration
Attendees registering with student rates will be required to show a valid student ID at the registration desk of the conference to obtain thier badges. Reduced rates are for student attendees only (non-authors).
All authors must pay the relevant registration fee in order to have their papers included in the conference proceedings.
All prices are in Euros.
You can register through the Eventbrite page for this event