Conference program 42nd International Computer Music Conference The ICMC 2016 is supported by: hosted by 2 3 Dear visitor of the ICMC 2016, It gives us great pleasure to welcome you to the ICMC A most appropriate background 2016, the 42nd edition of the International Computer Music Conference. The International Computer Music Association has chosen Utrecht for The main question of the conference “Is the sky the limit?” its 42nd Conference. So welcome to our city, where the music of the will be explored through a variety of concerts, installations, Venetian School still resonates after the Early Music Festival, paper presentations, workshops, installations and events, which ended a week ago. And where the newest music, presented by the by composers, researchers, sonic artists, students, sound best young composers and performing artists, is still fresh in the designers, professors and many others. It will be an intense mind after the Gaudeamus Muziekweek. week in the city of Utrecht, which is known as the musical The ICMA’s choice of Utrecht seems particularly apt, since our city centre of the Netherlands and is home to institutions like is home not only to art, but also to the second pillar of computer Gaudeamus Muziekweek and HKU Music and Technology, the two music - science. The seven faculties of our university, the country’s institutions that have collaboration closely in organising best, are authoritative in their fields, such as geosciences, life the ICMC 2016. sciences, and humanities. One fifth of our population consists of The main venue of the conference is TivoliVredenburg, students, a demographic factor that contributes greatly to the housing two major concert halls, three smaller halls and atmosphere of the city. many open spaces for meeting and networking with your peers. Along with many other institutions and festivals, Gaudeamus and HKU The traditional ‘day out and banquet’ will be held in the University of the Arts are staunch representatives of our city’s botanical gardens of Utrecht University, one of the most strong cultural profile, as is our new, all-round TivoliVredenburg beautiful of its kind in the Netherlands, allowing you to concert hall. relax after intense discussions and exciting concerts. In short, Utrecht provides a most appropriate background to your All in all, we hope the programme will be interesting and conference, and will not fail to inspire you. Please enjoy your challenging and we wish you an adventurous and inspiring stay, don’t forget to look around (and listen, of course) and keep week in every respect! Utrecht in mind when you’re next planning a city trip with family and friends (musical or otherwise). Conference chairs Henk Heuvelmans, director of Gaudeamus Muziekweek Rens Machielse, director of Music and Technology at HKU Jan van Zanen University of the Arts Utrecht Mayor of Utrecht 4 5 Dear 2016 ICMC Delegates, I am very happy to welcome you to ICMC 2016, the 42nd International Computer Music Conference hosted by HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and Gaudeamus Muziekweek. I am excited to be here in Utrecht, an important city for computer music research and innovative music. It is Welcome to Utrecht! the birthplace of Louis Andriessen and Koenig and Berg’s groundbreaking SSP music language, and home to the Institute of Sonology, as well as Utrecht has an amazing infrastructure of venues our hosts: the Gaudeamus Foundation and HKU University of the Arts located in the city centre. The eye-catching Utrecht. TivoliVredenburg (with no fewer than 5 venues!) is The theme of this conference poses the question “Is the sky a unique building that is ideally suited to hosting the limit?” Now that the field of Computer Music is well this year’s International Computer Music Conference. over fifty years old, it is very appropriate to reflect on We are very proud to present over 100 compositions this theme. Computer hardware is now cheap and fast, music and 6 installations, in 16 concerts, 4 listening distribution is practically free, and the ideas of computer rooms and 6 off-ICMC events. I would like to thank music have spread far beyond the original genre of Computer over a hundred reviewers for doing the difficult job Music. This conference can inspire us to consider bigger of reviewing nearly 600 submissions. ideas, to revisit techniques previously thought impractical, We hope that the selection moves you and ‘feeds’ and to expand our work into a broader musical community. your creativity. I would like to thank the hosts of this conference for all Martijn Buser, their technical and aesthetic guidance: Martijn Buser, Hans Music/Listening Room Chair Timmermans, Henk Heuvelmans and Rens Machielse. We have a lot to look forward to: An intriguing keynote from composer/ performer/artist Åke Parmerud, special off-ICMC performances by Tarik Barri, Thomas Ankersmit, Taraf, Allert Alders and Robert Henke, and a full schedule of paper sessions, concerts, installations and workshops featuring our own work. I congratulate our hosts for organising a wonderful week of music, research, inspiration and good company. Welcome to the 2016 International Computer Music Conference! Tom Erbe, ICMA President 6 7 Welcome from the Paper Chair We are happy to welcome you to the 2016 International Computer Music Conference and to the city of Utrecht. Utrecht has a long history of computer music, as the Institute of Sonology was founded at Utrecht University in 1960, where many of us studied or worked, or at least discovered computer music. In 1986, the Institute of Sonology moved to the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, which was hosting that year’s International Computer Music Conference, 30 years ago. In fact, it was my first - and certainly not my last - ICMC. The HKU Music and Technology programme was founded in 1985, and we are pleased to be collaborating with Gaudeamus Muziekweek in organising the ICMC 2016. We are proud to present the proceedings of ICMC 2016. We received a total of 160 paper submissions from 28 countries, of which 119 submissions were accepted and scheduled. The submissions were reviewed using a double-blind review process, and each submission received around three conscientious and often quite detailed reviews. This year’s review committee was comprised of 112 reviewers from 20 countries, representing a wide spectrum of specialisations in the computer music field. This year we accepted 40 long papers, 46 short papers, 27 posters/demos and 6 workshop proposals. Reviewing and adjudicating the many high-quality submissions is never easy, and we had to take some difficult decisions. We are sorry that some of the accepted papers could not be presented by one of the authors and had to be removed from the programme for that reason. We feel that the selected papers strongly represent the current research, development and aesthetic thought in computer music today. We wish you a very inspiring ICMC2016 @ UTRECHT ! Hans Timmermans Paper Chair, ICMC 2016 8 9 Full Name Organization Country Paper selection committee Richard Dudas Hanyang University South Korea Aaron Einbond City University London United Kingdom and reviewers Tom Erbe UCSD United States Cumhur Erkut Aalborg University Copenhagen Denmark Georg Essl University of Michigan United States Full Name Organization Country Carl Faia Brunel University London United Kingdom Miriam Akkermann Bayreuth University Germany John ffitch United Kingdom Jesse Allison Louisiana State University United States Rebecca Fiebrink Goldsmiths University of United Kingdom Georgaki Anastasia UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Greece London Torsten Anders University of Bedfordshire United Kingdom Rajmil Fischman Keele University United Kingdom Ted Apel United States Dominique Fober Grame France Mark Ballora Penn State University United States Ivan Franco McGill University Canada Leah Barclay Griffith University Australia Pete Furniss University of Edinburgh (ECA) United Kingdom Natasha Barrett University of Oslo, Norway Dr. Gregorio García Karman Akademie der Künste Germany Department for Musicology. Michael Gatt Kingston University London United Kingdom Stephen David Beck Louisiana State University United States Jean-Louis Giavitto IRCAM - CNRS - Inria France Peter Beyls CITAR - UCP Portugal Mick Grierson Goldsmiths United Kingdom Jamie Bullock Birmingham City University United Kingdom Michael Gurevich University of Michigan United States John Ashley Burgoyne Universiteit van Amsterdam Netherlands Rob Hamilton Rensselaer Polytechnic United States Christopher Burns University of Michigan United States Institute Juan Jose Burred France Ian Hattwick McGill University Canada Baptiste Caramiaux IRCAM / McGill University Canada Christopher Haworth University of Oxford United Kingdom Nicolas Castagné Grenoble INP - ICA laboratory France Lauren Hayes Arizona State University United Kingdom - ACROE Mara Helmuth University of Cincinnati United States Chris Chafe CCRMA Stanford University United States Henk Heuvelmans Gaudeamus Muziekweek Netherlands Marko Ciciliani University of Music and Austria Jason Hockman Birmingham City University United Kingdom Performing Arts Graz/IEM Alexander Refsum Jensenius University of Oslo Norway David Coll Freelance Composer & Sound United States Jean Marc Jot DTS, Inc. United States Artist Emmanuel Jourdan Ircam France David Cope UC Santa Cruz United States Steven Kemper Mason Gross School of the United States Cathy Cox Kunitachi College of Music Japan Arts, Rutgers University Roger Dannenberg Carnegie Mellon University United States David Kim-Boyle University