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Calls for Papers

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Composers on Composers

We Call for articles written by composers about other composers’ music. A trade-off is possible (you do me and I’ll do you), or just write something. We are already looking for articles by composers about their own music. We are always looking for articles that are useful and appealing for composers to read.

Multi-Media Art and Music

Many contemporary art installations include sound or music, and much contemporary music is produced in some multi-media environment. Articles exploring this territory are welcome.

Uncharted Territories

Perspectives is always especially interested in writings that are in some way not like anything else we have published before—about people who make music who have not been discussed before in our pages, or about some music that is new to us but important to the writer, or in general, exploring musical phenomena which have up to now not been given notice in our pages.

Mathematical Modeling

We welcome submissions which use mathematics to model aspects of music in new and powerful ways which may prove useful or inspirational for artistic creation. We also welcome reflections on what the musical usefulness of mathematical methods might be.

Collaboration and Improvisation

The Editors would like to see submissions about recent artistic collaborations, and about the improvisational process—musicians with musicians, musicians with dancers and choreographers, musicians with painters and sculptors, and so on. We are especially interested in articles which illuminate new or strangely successful modes of working together, or which describe artistic results of a particularly stimulating nature.

Fusion

The contemporary Western art music world is increasingly involved in hybridization with the musics of other traditions and cultures, and with various genres of popular music. The layers and degrees of commercialization are increasingly complex, and the relations between commercial and artistic motivations for music-making are dynamic and often ambiguous. We continue to encourage submissions to Perspectives of New Music which expose and explore this world.

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