CFP: Tracking the Creative Process in Music, Paris, Oct 2015

TRACKING THE CREATIVE PROCESS IN MUSIC
3rd edition: Paris, France, 8th-10th October 2015

Organised jointly by IRCAM, IReMus (Paris-Sorbonne University and CNRS), and CTEL (Nice-Sophia Antipolis University).

This conference brings together researchers interested in artistic creativity and the study of processes of musical and sound creation of the past and present. Researchers working on this cluster of problems from a wide variety of disciplines (history, music analysis, psychology, philosophy, cognitive science, sociology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, etc.) are invited to assess the different methodologies developed in the last thirty years in their respective areas from an interdisciplinary perspective. Each approach contributes in its own way to the advancement of our understanding of the procedures, techniques, knowledge and know-how employed by musicians involved in creative projects.

Our guest speakers in 2015 will be Georgina Born (University of Oxford), Nicholas Cook (University of Cambridge, author of *Musical Performance as Creative Practice*, Oxford U.P., 2016), Pierre-Michel Menger (Collège de France, author of *The Economics of Creativity*, Harvard U.P., 2014), and Friedemann Sallis (University of Calgary, author of *Musical Sketches*, Cambridge U.P., 2015).  TCPM will also include workshops/concerts on composition and performance led by Hyacinthe Ravet (Université Paris-Sorbonne) and Jean-François Trubert (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis).  The languages of the conference are English and French. Simultaneous translation of French papers will be provided.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Each conference talk proposal must include the following elements:
· First and last name of presenter
· Institutional Affiliation
· Mailing Address, telephone number and email address
· Title of proposed conference talk
· Abstract, 800 to 1200 words in length, clearly presenting the subject, the theories and models of creative processes described in the talk, the goals, the methodology used and the results of the study
· Selected Bibliography (3 to 8 references to the exclusion of the presenter’s own work) and main sources used (archives, experimental or ethnographic data, etc.).
· Personal web site (optional)

Proposals must be received no later than 1 December 2014 via the conference’s website.

Proposals will be double-blind reviewed by 2 or 3 members of the Scientific Committee, depending on the areas covered in the proposal.  Notification of acceptance will be sent to applicants within 12 weeks.

Correspondence address: tcpm2015 (at) ircam (point) fr

The conference website will be online in fall 2014.