XXV CIM – Colloquium on Music Informatics
Sounding the Posthuman
L’Aquila / October 13th to 16th, 2026
Conservatory of L’Aquila
Department of Electronic Music and New Technologies (meAQ)
in cooperation with University of L’Aquila
Department of Engineering, Information Sciences, and Mathematics (DISIM)
Invitation for ARTICLES, POSTERS and DEMONSTRATIONS
Today’s creative sound practices are populated by a variety of different nonhuman agents (including technical and environmental ones). As it becomes increasingly necessary to properly situate the human body in the hybrid, distributed assemblages involved in composing, performing, and listening, it also becomes increasingly problematic to say exactly where computing actually takes place along and across such practices and related artistic research: what is the place and role of computation across the broader technological layers (including mechanical and analog ones) needed for any computer music to exist? Multiple agencies operate through all sorts of portable devices, shared interfaces, and ubiquitous AI operators: what technological, cultural, and affective mediations do they enact in the lived experience and practice of music?
Submission, selection and participation methods
Contributions may be submitted as papers and will be presented at the conference either orally, as posters, or as demos. Proposals must be submitted in PDF format, using one of the templates (LaTeX or ODT – OpenDocument Text) available on the CIM 2026 website: https://musel.consaq.it/cim2026 . They may be written in Italian or English. If in Italian, the abstract must be written in English. Maximum length: 8 pages for oral and poster presentations, 4 pages for demos. Any links to multimedia content must be included within the submitted paper. A short biography of the authors in English (maximum 1,500 characters) is also required, to be completed using the dedicated template provided.
Submission of papers, the peer review process, and communications with authors will be managed through the EasyChair conference management platform, available at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xxvcim2026 . The selection process is double-blind , so authors are asked to anonymize their submissions. Papers must be written using the conference templates; submissions that do not conform to these templates will not be accepted.
The outcome of the selection of contributions will be communicated by July 15, 2026. Authors will have the opportunity to make any changes and improvements to the texts, based on the reviewers’ comments, and must submit the final version by August 31, 2026. Papers by authors who do not register for the conference by the deadline (September 6) will not be included in the CIM program.
Paper, poster, demo, and artwork presentations will take place in L’Aquila. The detailed program of activities, including dates, times, and locations, will be published on the dedicated website at https://musel.consaq.it/cim2026 . The selection process is double-blind ; authors are therefore asked to anonymize their submissions.
For the presentation of demos (live practical demonstration of a system, technology, research project or artistic practice, aimed at illustrating the functionality and providing a proof of concept), the organization will provide basic technical-logistical assistance: the authors will be solely responsible for the specific devices necessary for the realization of the demo.
The Proceedings of the XXV CIM will be provided with an ISBN and published in electronic format on the AIMI website ( https://aimi-musica.org ). For each accepted paper, at least one author must attend the conference for inclusion in the Proceedings.
Topic
We invite contributions on artistic, technical-scientific, and humanistic research that intersect with the conference theme (Sounding the Posthuman), specifically (but not exclusively) addressing the following topics:
- Sound and music signal processing
- Hardware/software systems
- Programming languages and music representation paradigms
- Physical modeling of musical instruments
- Virtual acoustics
- Musical Complex Systems
- Musical Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Humanities, critical thinking and ethical issues in sound and music computing
- Technologies for music education and musical heritage
- Aesthetics of computer and interactive music
- Computing in sound art practices
- Analysis and interpretation of electroacoustic and computer music repertoire
- Computer-aided composition and performance
- Extended, Distributed and Posthuman Agency in Composing and Performing
- Computational musicology
- Music Information Retrieval
- Modeling musical gesture
- New interfaces for musical expression
- Sonic interaction design, multimodal interaction
- Music perception and cognition
- Emotions and affective computing
- Musical applications of VR, XR and the Metaverse
- Networked Music Performance
Contributions are also invited for the following special topics :
- Computer music and musical informatics in new doctoral programs
- Gender issues (in computer music and programming education, in interaction design, in institutional policies, etc.)
- Accessibility and inclusion issues in computer music and musical informatics.
Important dates
All information on dates and deadlines is available on the dedicated page.
Further information and FAQs
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