ISMA 2001 announce

Dear folks,
I am proud to announce to the tuning list that in
September 10-14, 2001, the seven international symposium on musical
acoustics, ISMA 2001, will take place in Perugia, the chief town of the
Umbria region and centre of the ancient Etrurian culture in Italy. The
Symposium is organised jointly by the Catgut Acoustical Society (CAS) and
the Interuniversity Center of Acoustics and Musical Research (CIARM) and
will be a satellite symposium of the 17th International Congress on
Acoustics (ICA) to be held in Rome in the first week of september 2001. The
Symposium will be joint with "Perugia Classico": a noteworthy Italian
exhibition and market of acoustic instruments, which will give musicians,
instruments makers and acousticians the opportunity to meet and discuss any
topic of musical acoustics from an interdisciplinary point of view. The
leading theme of the Symposium will be Musical Sounds from Past Millennia,
which will be accompanied with a leitmotif: The Preservation and Promotion
of our Musical Acoustic Heritage. Through a retrospective overview of
acoustic characteristics of the musical sounds, i.e. sounds that man has
carefully selected in the course of his history for creating music, the
attention will be focused mostly on the issues regarding the need of keeping
this cultural and scientific patrimony alive and available to later
generations. In this frame recent advances in the design of musical
instruments should be related to their tradition.
Within the broad theme of the conference, all the major areas of musical
acoustics will be considered. These will include ordinary as well as special
topics. In particular, special topics of prominent historical and
musicological interest will be structured in the last two days of the
Conference, (joint with "Perugia Classico"). As in the past ISMA
symposia, workshops and free demos are planned for instrument makers,
researchers and students interested in applied aspects of musical
instruments design and construction as well as computer applications used in
musical acoustics. The official language of ISMA2001 will be English.

Topics
- Perception of musical sound and musical scales
- Architectural acoustics
- String instruments
- Wind instruments
- Percussion instruments
- Pipe organs and singing
- Recording and reproduction of sound
- Electronic musical instruments

Special Topics
- Perception and microtonality
- Nonlinear phenomena and chaos in musical acoustics
- Physical modeling and sound synthesis
- Acoustical properties of violins and their measurement
- History of musical acoustics and education
- Preservation of musical instruments

Workshops and demos
- Building of violins and violinmaker's acoustical analysis
- Wind instruments: building, playing and joining music acoustics to
performance
- Acoustical measurement techniques for wind instruments
- Instruments and gestural control of music

Deadlines
February 15, 2001 pre-registration and abstracts submission
March 31, 2001 acceptance notices to authors
June 15, 2001 -payment of registration fees
-sending of the registration form and manuscripts for publication

More details about the Symposium are available at the official site:
http://www.cini.ve.cnr.it (ISMA 2001), and at the site of the
joint exhibition Perugia Classico: http://www.perusia.it/classico

If there are some of the list readers interested in the special session on
perception and microtonality which I am organising, You can mail me
privately any questions and suggestions. There are also some free space in
the workshops and demos sessions which can include, for example, some topics
on microtonal instruments.

With best regards,

Diego L.
Gonzalez