FIMPaC 2011

The Forum for Innovation in Music Production and Composition takes place at Leeds College of Music and will be a two day event held on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 May 2011.

FIMPaC is an annual event focusing on research and practice related to innovations in Music Production and Composition.

The goal is to bring together composers, producers, music industry representatives, academics, educators and research students to discuss their practice, research and industry experiences; FIMPaC encourages participants and delegates that represent the commercial music industry and academia.

Keynote speaker (Thursday 12 May 2011): Bill Drummond

Bill Drummond (pictured) is a musician, music industry figure, writer and artist. He is known as co-founder of The KLF, the pop group of the late 80s and the K Foundation. He has written several books including '17' and 'The Manual (How to have a number one the easy way)'. Bill has produced a variety of different conceptual art projects and is the founder of choir ‘The17’ - www.the17.org

Keynote speaker (Friday 13 May 2011): Leigh Landy

Leigh Landy holds a Research Chair at De Montfort University where he directs the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre. His scholarship is divided between creative and musicological work. His compositions include several for video, dance and theatre. He is editor of "Organised Sound: an international journal of music technology" (CUP) and author of five books including "What's the Matter with Today's Experimental Music?" and "Experimental Music Notebooks". "Understanding the Art of Sound Organization" (MIT Press) and "La musique des sons/The Music of Sounds" (Sorbonne MINT/OMF) both appeared in 2007.

Call for Papers

This year’s call for papers is in association with the Journal for Music, Technology and Education. Proposers are asked to indicate on their submission if they would like their work to be considered for publication in a forthcoming issue of the journal.

Focussing on issues arising from FIMPaC 2010, the main theme for the event is ‘Liveness’ and invitations for proposals may include, for example:

• Philosophical concerns and definitions of ‘liveness’.
• Audience reception of electronic and acousmatic music.
• Composing and music production for multimedia.
• Pedagogical concerns that address popular, electronic and acousmatic music.
• Postmodernism.

In addition to the above, proposals that address innovation in compositional practice and music production are welcome (for example, focus on compositional/production process, applications of music technology, pedagogy, dissemination, analysis or critical studies).

While proposals are invited on any area of composition/production research and practice from within any discipline/genre (commercial, popular, experimental, mixed media, electronica, electroacoustic, acousmatic etc…) preference will be given to topics that address cross-disciplinary approaches that inform new insights.

Proposals

The deadline for the submission of proposals is Monday 25 March 2011.

Proposals should take the form of a title followed by an abstract of not more than 200 words (Rich Text Format). Proposals may also include up to two minutes of audio or audiovisual clips. The deadline for submissions is Friday 25th March 2011, and decisions will be notified shortly after this date.

All abstracts should be uploaded to ftp://researchftp.lcm.ac.uk using the username and password provided below.

Abstracts must be formatted as rtf documents and you may include up to 2-minutes of audio/visual examples which are clearly labelled.

All files must be zipped as one file and named as follows:

surname_forename_FIMPaC2011. (The ftp site has been tested with both ‘FireFTP’ - a plugin for FireFox and ClassicFTP. Both are available as free downloads. It is not possible to simply drag and drop your files to the site.)

After installing either of these applications, you will be able to upload your files using the following user name and password:

Username: lcm\lcmftp

Password: LCMmus1c

Any queries about a proposal should be directed to the 2011 Conference Organiser: Dr Dale Perkins by emailing FIMPaC@lcm.ac.uk.

If you wish to apply for a receipt for materials uploaded, please email FIMPAC@lcm.ac.uk with surname_forname_FIMPaC2011 in the Header.

Conference Rates

Single Delegate Rates

Early booking rate (book before 18th March 2011)
£80 (£65*)

Full conference rate (from 19th March 2011)
£90 (£75*)

Institutional Rates

Early booking rate (book before 18th March 2011)
£170**

Full conference rate (from 19th March 2011)
£190**

*Reduced rate – Applies to self-financing delegates who are in full-time education, unemployed or senior citizens.

**Institutional rate – Entitles up to three people from a single institution to attend.

Conference rates are inclusive of all scheduled presentations. Lunch, tea and coffee will be provided for delegates during breaks in the College’s licensed café bar.

Booking

Download the booking form here

Presented in association with the Journal for Music, Technology and Education
www.intellectbooks.co.uk

Bill Drummond Photo Credit: Kurt Hoerbst