[AUDITORY] 2nd CfP 3rd International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology

Dear colleagues,

The Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (ICCCM2025) will take place at Aalborg University, Denmark, on October 8–10, 2025. Following editions in Athens (2023) and Utrecht (2024), ICCCM2025 invites researchers to explore the intersection of musicology, computational methods and cognitive science in advancing our understanding of music and musical processes.

Key Information for Authors:
Submission Types: Abstracts for oral presentations or posters
Submission Limits: max. 300 words for main text + max. 1 page for references
Submission Deadline: 30 June, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: 15 July, 2025

Submission portal: Send your abstract as a PDF file to dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Publication: Accepted abstracts published online; extended papers considered for a special issue of the Journal of New Music Research.

Conference Theme: "Getting to Grips with Musical Complexity"
This year’s theme encourages submissions addressing large and complex musical works or insights from diverse digital music collections. We especially welcome research using innovative computing paradigms (e.g., massive parallelism, quantum computing) to tackle challenges in musicology and music cognition. However, as in previous years, we remain fully open to any research that advances our understanding of music through computational approaches.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Computational modeling of musical history using big data
Theories of musical structure implemented computationally
Computational approaches to the study of music perception and cognition
Automatic music transcription
Computational music analysis
Digital representation of musical information
Development and use of digital corpora for musicological research
Health-related applications of music computing
Computational ethnomusicology
Teaching computational and digital musicology
User experience design for musicological tools

ICCCM stands out for its focus on fundamental research rather than application-driven perspectives, distinguishing it from conferences like ISMIR, MCM, or ICMPC. Its small size and informal atmosphere make it especially welcoming to early-stage researchers, who have been a significant presence at past editions.

Submission Guidelines
We invite submission of abstracts (max. 300 words + max 1 page of references) for oral presentations and posters, outlining research questions, methods, and contributions.
Submission Deadline: June 30th, 2025
Notification: July 15th 2025
Submission Portal: Send your abstract as a PDF file to dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Each abstract should include the following information:

Title
Name, affiliation and email address of each author
Text of abstract (300 words maximum)
Reference list (max 1 page)
Authors may optionally also include up to one figure
A statement as to whether you prefer to present orally or as a poster

There will be a light-weight review procedure regarding match to the aim of the conference, originality and quality of the proposal, and variety in content. Since space is restricted, we will also take order of submission into account.

Accepted abstracts will be published online, with authors invited to submit extended papers for a special issue of the Journal of New Music Research.

Travel stipends
Authors of accepted papers whose travel and accommodation will not be funded by their employer or a grant and have no other source of funding to cover the expenses they incur as a result of attending the conference, are eligible to apply for a grant to help with covering these costs. There will only be a limited number of these grants available and these will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. If you would like to be considered for receiving one of these grants, please include a short statement with your submission, declaring that you do not have any other source of financial support that would cover the costs of you attending the conference. You will also need to supply an estimate of the total cost of your trip, with relevant documentation (e.g., quotes from an online travel agency).

Acknowledgements
The conference is generously supported by the Carlsberg Foundation, grant CF24-2307.

Contact
Stay tuned to the conference website (https://digital.musicology.org/icccm2025/) for updates.

For general queries regarding the conference, contact the conference chair, David Meredith dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.

We look forward to your contributions to ICCCM2025!

On behalf of the Organising Committee,

Anja Volk