CALL FOR PAPERS

International conference ‘NOVA Contemporary Music Meeting’ (NCMM)
May 7-9, 2025 • Lisbon, Portugal

Deadline extended: 20 November 2024

This year, the NCMM invites contributions focusing on the wide-ranging theme of ‘Today’s Music Memory’ and its related aspects. Memory is a fundamental element in the processes of music creation, performance, reception, and study. As the musical landscape evolves quickly, the methods of remembering and engaging with music from both past and present eras become increasingly significant.

The study of today’s music memory encompasses a large range of contexts and disciplines, including live performances, recordings, traditional scores, digital archives, personal memories and collective histories. This theme facilitates an in-depth examination of the mechanisms through which contemporary music is remembered, preserved, and transformed, and how these mechanisms influence our current understanding and experience of music.

The conference welcomes papers on a wide range of topics related to contemporary music studies and practices. We invite submissions on any aspect in this field, including composition, music and technology, auditory perception, music history, analysis and theory, musical genres and practices, and cultural issues.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:

— Musical Composition Practices, Performance and Reception
— Music History, Theory and Analysis
— Philosophy of Music and Aesthetics
— Musicology, Intertextuality and Authenticity
— Auditory Perception and Cognition
— Musical Sound Transcription, Representation and Notation
— Sound Technologies and the Music Industry
— Music and Image
— Sound Art, Installations and Exhibitions
— Soundscape and Sound Ecology
— Documentation and Preservation of Musical Heritage
— Music and emergent cultures and societies, cultural heritage, and inclusive societies

The conference language is English. Proposals should offer original contributions based on current research or work in progress. All papers will be 20 minutes followed by 5 minutes’ discussion time. You will be asked to provide contact details, paper title, an abstract of max. 500 words and 2 to 3 keywords, a biography of max. 150 words, and a list of main publications (up to 10 entries).

Submissions from students and early-career postdoctoral researchers are particularly encouraged.

For further information, please see: http://fabricadesites.fcsh.unl.pt/ncmm/ncmm-2025-call-for-papers/

Best wishes,

Isabel Pires and Filipa Magalhães

Conference convenors