Dear all, there's a closing call coming up for a Conference on Music and Hacking in Paris (November 2017). It will welcome contributions on Internet-mediated muisc and hacking practices. Kindly, Camille Paloque-Berges +++ Reminder/Rappel: CFP Music & Hacking International Conference (Musée du quai Branly & IRCAM, Paris, 8th-10th November 2017) Apologies for cross-posting The “Music & Hacking: Instruments, Communities, Values” conference intends to look at musicians and technicians’ practices which – explicitly or implicitly – could be seen as musical hacking activities. Since the turn of the last century, computer coding and digital instruments continue to transform the aesthetic, ergonomic, communicational, and ethical dimensions of musical practices. These shifts are taking place in part under the banner of hacking, a notion which is primarily associated with the IT world. However, it has progressively infiltrated and structured a number of other fields, such as that of artistic creation. Hacker values include re-appropriation of mass-produced technical products and a focus on freely accessible communal know-how, as well as the pleasure of serendipity, subversion, and manipulation. In sum, hacking is the foundation of a disparate, discreet form of social protest: a reaction to a normalized, globalized commercial and industrial culture. The conference will focus on three general themes: organological hacking, creation and federation of musical communities through hacking, and the influence of hacker ethics on musical practices. At the end of the conference, a Music Hack Day will be organized on the premises of IRCAM, which will give us a chance to extend and test our reflections on musical hacking. *Themes* · Invention and subversion of instruments · Non-conformist instrumental practices · Hacking, organology, museology · DIY, circuit bending, and making · Squats, fab labs, and makerspaces · Hacking and socializations · Opportunity, serendipity, and innovation · Music and open source · Musical hacking and intellectual property · Hacker ethics and axiology · Coding and transcoding music · Musical hacking and the emergence of digital culture · Musical hacking and the history of information technologies · Musical hacking and digital art forms · Cultural industries and counter-cultures · Music Hack Days, tech providers, and web audio · Demoscene and derivations of hacking Please visit http://hacking2017.ircam.fr for more details. Proposals (either in English or French) are due on *May 15th, 2017*, and should be sent to musiquehacking2017@gmail.com. Authors will be notified of their participation on *July* *1st, 2017 *at the latest. Proposals, in .doc format, should include a title and an abstract of approximately 500 words, the author’s name and institutional affiliation, as well as a brief biography. Proposals for demos, workshops or performances will be taken into consideration for inclusion in the concluding Music Hack Day. *Scientific committee* Paul ADENOT (Mozilla), Sébastien BROCA (CEMTI, Université Paris 8), Nicolas COLLINS (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Joanna DEMERS (University of Southern California, Thorton School of Music), Nicolas DONIN (APM, IRCAM), Christine GUILLEBAUD (CREM, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre), Michel LALLEMENT (LISE, CNAM), Paul LAMERE (The Echo Nest), Camille PALOQUE-BERGÈS (HT2S, CNAM), Norbert SCHNELL (ISMM, IRCAM), Jimena ROYO-LETELIER (Deezer) *Organizing committee* Baptiste BACOT (EHESS/IRCAM), Clément CANONNE (APM, IRCAM), Frédéric KECK (MQB) and Guillaume PELLERIN (APM, IRCAM) -- Institutional email address : camille.paloque_berges@cnam.fr *Laboratory for the History of Techno-Sciences (HT2S), Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, 2 rue Conté, 75003 Paris, France *Associate researcher at the Digital Paths cluster of CNRS' Institute for Communication Sciences (ISCC)