[Commlist] cfp: Innovation In Music 2025

*Innovation In Music 2025*

Bath Spa University, Bath UK

13-15 June 2025


*Call For Papers**​*

Principal theme: /New Beginnings: From ‘Tabula Rasa’ to ‘Rip It Up And 
Start Again’/

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Across the musical spectrum, from Arvo Pärt to Orange Juice, starting 
from zero is a common occurrence in the world of music.

Whether we’re starting with a blank slate, writing the rules over again, 
making it up as we go along, or coming up with a grand plan, the history 
of music is also a history of innovation. How often do we get the chance 
to build something exactly the way we want it, to make all those 
fine-grained adjustments that will make a project just right? The 
perfectly structured track, the perfectly balanced mix, the perfectly 
designed and executed performance. The new piece of technology that does 
exactly what we designed it to do.

For Innovation in Music 2025, we want to explore what happens when you 
get the chance to start something new or when you get to start something 
over, by rebooting or resetting things. Our call this year is broad, 
here are some perspectives to think about ‘New Beginnings’...

  * Innovating from the ground up.
  * Taking a fresh look in order to improve on what’s gone before.
  * ‘Fail better’. How do we really learn from past projects and past
    mistakes to take a great idea forward? What happens when the walls
    come crashing down, but we want the project to keep moving forward?
  * Circuit bending as ‘musical hotwiring’. When we inherit a project
    that someone else has made, and we want to take it off in a new
    direction… how can we take the hotwiring approach and apply it to
    other areas of musical practice - in composition, performance and
    production? And how can we do this at scale?
  * As AI promises / threatens to give the music industry a near-total
    makeover, what would a new industry look like? What kind of checks
    and balances might we need to safeguard a new industry?
  * As spatial audio continues to open up new perspectives for listening
    and production, how will this technology create a new beginning in
    how we approach the composition of music?

This conference theme can be broadly interpreted, and we encourage 
presentations on all kinds of ‘innovation in music’, related to topics 
such as:

  * Innovative production, recording, mixing and mastering techniques
  * Innovative approaches to composition, songwriting and performance
  * Innovative approaches to music business, events, management and
    enterprise
  * Innovations in music technology
  * Innovative approaches to music research
  * Innovative approaches to promoting diversity, equality and
    representation in music
  * Innovative approaches to sustainability and sustainable practices in
    music

Presentations are by default in the format of 15-minute talks, followed 
by 5 minutes Q&A. Abstracts should give a summary of original research 
and an outline of the presentation to be given, and be 300-500 words. 
After the conference, presenting authors will be invited to submit a 
full paper (4,000-6,000 words) for peer review and inclusion in the book 
of proceedings, published by Routledge. In due course we will open the 
abstracts submission-portal and announce keynotes, conference fees and 
accommodation suggestions, so please check the www.innovationinmusic.uk 
<http://www.innovationinmusic.uk/> website regularly for updates.

We also welcome proposals for performances, workshops and panels: please 
use the below email address.

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*Dates and Deadlines*

01 December 2024 – Abstracts submission portal opens

31 January 2025 – Abstracts submission deadline

14 February 2025 – Authors notified of acceptance

01 May 2025 – Earlybird registration discount ends

02 June 2025 – Registration closes

13 June 2025 – Conference opens

15 June 2025 – Conference closes

31 July 2025 – Deadline for submitting full chapters

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*Organisation*

Dr Matthew Lovett – Bath Spa University, UK
Professor Jan-Olof Gullö – Royal College of Music (KMH), Sweden
Professor Justin Paterson – University of West London, UK
Associate Professor Russ Hepworth-Sawyer – MOTTOsound & York St John 
University, UK
Professor Rob Toulson – RT60 Ltd, UK

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For any enquiries, please email (info /at/ innovationinmusic.uk) 
<mailto:(info /at/ innovationinmusic.uk)>_​_


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