“Music and Machines” Call for Papers Event Notice

The Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Siena, Italy) and “Chigiana. Journal of Musicological Studies” are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the International Conference “Music and Machines,” to be held in Siena from December 4 to 6, 2025.

The International Conference “Music and Machines explores how music, computational thinking, and new technologies have reshaped musical creation, performance, and listening throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The primary focus is on contemporary music, but the conference also invites critical perspectives on how emerging technologies may inform the study of historical musical practices.

The official languages of the conference are English and Italian.

Proposals must be submitted by June 30, 2025, to: chigiana.journal -at- chigiana.org

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CALL CHIGIANA CONFERENCE 2025

Scientific Committee: Giacomo Albert, Nicola Bernardini, Simone Caputo, Christoph Flamm, Christopher Haworth, Stefano Jacoviello, Deirdre Loughridge, Curtis Roads, Jennifer Walshe