About SEAMUS 25

The National SEAMUS Conference, first held 41 years ago, will be hosted by Purdue University's newly formed Department of Music, housed within the College of Liberal Arts and the Rueff School of Art & Design and Performance, in collaboration with Purdue's Rueff Galleries, Hall of Music, The Arts Federation, the Department of Theatre and Dance, and Laboratory for Acoustics and Music at Purdue (LAMP), from March 21-24, 2025 (Friday to Monday) - and with a special event on March 25 (Tue) - in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

Previous conferences include the recent distributed conference (2024), the NYC iteration (2023), and the 2022 National Conference hosted by Wester Michigan University in Kalamazoo, M.

Theme: Spaces | Places | Traces
This year, we are continuing with the theme of 'Spaces | Places | Traces,' with the aim of exploring it across various conferences. In March 2024, we focused on this very theme at the Web Audio Conference (WAC), and this year, we explore it at the SEAMUS '25 conference. As the boundaries between physical and virtual spaces blur, new opportunities for real-time, non-real-time, and faster-than-real-time engagement have become more accessible than ever, regardless of location or time. The role of sound, audio, and music becomes particularly compelling when considering the sounds of spaces and places in music performance, composition, and research, whether through fixed media, mixed media, interactive works, installations, or research and the study of soundscapes and environmental noise.

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