[Commlist] CfP: Riffs Vol. 4 Issue 1: Music and technology in the past, present and future

*Riffs: Call for Proposals*

’Technology is something I love and hate at the same time. One one hand 
the absence of any kind of technology means silence (or an environment 
of natural sounds which we hear much clearer because of the general 
silence); on the other hand, you need technology to make art’.

Christina Kubisch, ‘Artists’ Statements II: Christina Kubisch’, in The 
Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, ed. by Nick Collins and Julio 
d’Escriván, 2nd edn (Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2017:176)

This issue of Riffs will engage with music and technology, and the ways 
in which we communicate our insights, observations, engagements and 
relationships between them. As the journal title suggests, we are 
interested in pieces that take an experimental approach to the 
analytical consideration of popular music. For examples of pieces based 
on previous prompts, have a look through our current and past issues, 
available to download from our website – www.riffsjournal.org 
<http://www.riffsjournal.org/>.

For this issue we would particularly welcome submissions that focus on 
one or more of the following areas:

●Issues of accessibility and disability

●Considerations of utopia and dystopian futures of music and/or writing 
about music through technology

●Tales of accidental innovations and origins

●The reciprocal relationships between practice and innovation in music 
and new technologies

●Debates surrounding agency, ownership and authenticity

●Legacies and transferability of ephemeral and transitory music technology

●Issues of identity and community within current and future musical and 
technological contexts

●Historical contexts, critical responses and imagined futures in 
relation to the role of digital platforms, mobile technologies, 
algorithms and AI in popular music

This issue of Riffs will be guest edited by Dr Edmund Hunt, a composer 
based at Integra Lab, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City 
University. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Arts, 
Design and Media.**

Riffspublishes contributions from writers, researchers, photographers, 
composers, musicians, artists and poets. We encourage experimental 
audio, visual and written contributions, from composition to poetry. Up 
to ten contributions (to include visual contributions up to six pages of 
A4) will be published online and in limited edition print in Spring 2020.

Deadline for 300-word proposals- *8th September.* Please include your 
name, a short bio, institution or association (if applicable) and 
contact email.

Full submissions (of 1,000-4,000 words / visual (to not exceed 6 A4 
pages) / audio content / or an audio/video file suitable for hosting on 
WordPress) will be invited by the 22nd September and blind peer reviewed 
before publication. Full submissions will be required by 16th December. 
All visual and audio content must have a Creative Commons License, owned 
by the contributor or permission given by the copyright owner.

All abstracts submitted to Riffs will be considered by the whole 
editorial panel and invited contributions will be peer reviewed before 
publication.

Please send your abstract and bio to:

Guest Editor: Dr Edmund Hunt - (Edmund.Hunt /at/ bcu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(Edmund.Hunt /at/ bcu.ac.uk)>

Managing Editor: Dr Craig Hamilton - (Craig.Hamilton /at/ bcu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(Craig.Hamilton /at/ bcu.ac.uk)>

Managing Editor: Dr Sarah Raine - (Sarah.Raine /at/ bcu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(Sarah.Raine /at/ bcu.ac.uk)>

*Please note: *Riffs shall be entitled to first use of the contribution 
in all the journal’s different forms, but the author remains the 
copyright owner and can re-publish their contribution without seeking 
the journal’s permission. Riffs reserve the right to decline to publish 
contributions if they are submitted after the agreed deadline and 
without the assigned editor being informed (and agreeing to) a new 
submission date.


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