International Symposium on Musical Acoustics

The deadline for the submissions of the camera-ready papers via POMA has been extended to August 1.

Reviews are still underway because of some technical issues, but should be available shortly.

Best poster

Paul Amann, Vasileios Chatziioannou, Pascal Nicolay and Roland Willmann:

Lip-Specific Mouthpiece Force in Brass Performance: Effects of Pitch and Intensity in a Note-Synchronised Dataset

Best student papers

Charlotte Fernandez, Nathalie Henrich Bernardoni and Brian F. G. Katz:

Effect of Acoustic Variations of Performance Environments on artistic and physiological vocal performance: A Case Study of Medieval Monodic Music

Marco Aragó Bishop, Christophe Vergez, Vincent Fréour, Filipe Soares and Bruno Cochelin:

Lip dynamics in brass instruments: A sparse system-identification approach

The awards were supported by Yamaha and Modartt.

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The abstract booklet for the symposium can now be downloaded here:

Best posters and student papers will awarded during the conference. The awards are sponsored by Yamaha (a Venova casual wind instrument), and Modartt (software licenses).

The scientific program including the titles and authors of the presentations and posters has been published: https://padlet.com/hennatahvanainen/isma26_scientific

With the symposium but a month away, we are happy to announce another main sponsor, D’addario.

D’addario makes tools, such as strings, for musicians and we will see many presentations about string instruments during the symposium.

Please remember to register by the 25th of May for the discounted price.

The scientific program will be out soon.

The registration is finally open via EasyChair.

Please keep in mind that the registration fee increases on May 25 .

Before registering, check also the workshops in case you would like to attend, and the full program.

The city of Helsinki generously invites all the symposium participants for an evening reception on Monday June 15 at the Empire hall close to the Senate Square.

You can check here for more information about where to go and what to do in Helsinki during your stay.

Happy to announce one of our main sponsors, Yamaha, supporting the evening reception and the best paper awards!

From on the reed organ pipe marker Torakusu Yamaha in 1887, to the largest musical instrument manufacturer today, Yamaha fosters R&D in musical acoustics by offering Global Internships to doctoral and master students.