The ICMS is a biannual conference to provide a platform for presentations and discussions of recent developments and future trends in Musical Semiotics. It has been held since 1986 as part of the International Project on Musical Signification. ICMS10 is the tenth edition of the congress. Chronology of the previous editions:
ICMS1 1986 - Imatra (Finland), ICMS2 1989 - Helsinki (Finland), ICMS3 1992 - Edinburgh (Scotland), ICMS4 1994 - Paris (France), ICMS5 1996 - Bologna (Italy), ICMS6 1998 - Aix-en-Provence (France), ICMS7 2001 - Imatra (Finland), ICMS8 2004 - Paris (France), ICMS9 2006 - Rome (Italy)
This year, the organizers decided to held congress under the main theme Before and After Music. The topics of ICMS10 might include, but are not limited to the following aspects:
- Historical and cultural contextualisation of musical signification
- Historical and conceptual grounds of musical meaning
- Musical sign systems and their relationship to other sign systems
- Multidisciplinary perspectives to the life of musical signs
- Pre-signs and post-signs in compositional practices
- Codal (in)competence in musical communication
- Performing of and listening to music as signifying practices
- Interpretation of signs, its historical-social contexts, and its effect on musical signification
- Cross-cultural versus in-cultural connotations in musical signifying practices
- Musical signification and consumption of music: new perspectives in the age of globalised reproduction.
Programme:
21 October (Tuesday) - Vilnius
14.00-18.00 Registration
18.00 Opening ceremony
22 October (Wednesday) - Vilnius
9.30-16.30 Plenary lecture and work in a sections
19.00 cultural programme
23 October (Thursday) - Vilnius
9.30-16.30 Plenary lecture and work in a sections
19.00 cultural programme
24 October (Friday) - Vilnius
9.30-16.30 Plenary lecture and work in a sections
19.00 Cultural programme: Opening of the World Music Days in Vilnius (festival of International Society of Contemporary Music, ISCM)
For more information about ICMS10 please visit http://www.ktu.lt/icms10/