[Commlist] CFP: 22nd. Music and Media Meeting

 *Challenging a Tuning of the World...*

*Weaving Other Textures of Listening*

*22nd International Meeting on Music and Media*

*September 16–18, 2026*





The third millennium has been intensifying perceptions of the environment,
with climate issues at the heart of concerns, yet worries about the
acoustic environment still seem to take a back seat. Since ears have no
eyelids, the sonic world deserves far greater attention, moving beyond
merely restricting harmful noise.

Thinkers and artists are deeply concerned with this subject: Makis Solomos
revisits R. Murray Schafer’s warning about the hypertrophy of our sound
environment and the technological "sonic flood" of music. Bernie Krause, a
pioneer of Ecoacoustics, warns that human noise is "detuning" the Earth
across geophony, biophony, and anthrophony, proposing an activist listening
to combat environmental destruction. This resistance is complemented by
Hildegard Westerkamp’s soundwalking, Barry Truax’s modified soundscapes,
Jean-François Augoyard’s urban sound effects, and Pauline Oliveros’s deep
listening, all arguing that re-educating auditory sensitivity is vital to
repairing a world in crisis.

Although the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 11 focused
on sustainable cities, aim to protect the environment, the acoustic
environment is rarely discussed. This issue will be raised at the 22nd
International Meeting on Music and Media, balancing compositional poetics,
social appropriations, and audiovisual products through three main tracks:
1) soundscape, biophony, and composition; 2) soundscapes and cultural
diversity (ethnophonies); and 3) soundscapes in cinema and audiovisual
media with decolonial perspectives.

The event features partners Anselmo Guerra, Rodrigo Carreiro, and Wladimir
Mattos. Researchers are invited to submit relevant work proposals via the
Doity platform within the deadline, which will undergo double-blind peer
review, with final texts published in the conference proceedings.

*Important dates:*

*Call for papers:* May 15 to June 12

*Announcement of results:* June 19

*Full paper submission:* August 2 to 31



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