TENOR2026: TENOR Vienna 2026 mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna & Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna, Austria, May 21-24, 2026

We invite researchers, composers, scientists, technologists and performers to submit their work to the international conference on technologies for music notation and representation TENOR 2026. This conference in Vienna has a focus on innovative advancements on audio scores: musical notation, representation technologies, methods of composition, interpretation, psychoacoustic questions and aesthetic analysis connected to the concept of mimesis. The conference is part of the research project Sound as Score funded in whole or in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and hosted by the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna.

Conference Theme: Sound as Score

This year’s conference will focus on audio scores and its aesthetic and pychoacoustic impact and aims to foster innovative advancements and a lively and interdisciplinary dialog.

Topics under this theme include:

• 1. Musical Notation: audio scores, technical tools for audio scores
• 2. Musicology, Aesthetics and Analysis: analysis of contemporary notation with a focus on audio scores, semiotics of notation, ontologies of notation, critical aesthetic and sociological studies
• 3. Psychological and Musical acoustic: psychoacoustics in notation
• 4. Listening and Teaching: listening guides

Suggested Topics for Contributions:

We encourage submissions on topics such as:

• 1. Musical Notation
  • Audio scores
  • Technical tools for audio scores
  • Computer applications for music notation
  • Notation and mobile devices
  • Online tools for music notation
  • Notation in electronic and electroacoustic music
  • Non visual notation systems
  • Non Western or ancient music transcription

• 2. Musicology, Aesthetics and Analysis
  • Analysis of contemporary notation with a focus on audio scores
  • Semiotics of notation
  • Ontologies of notation
  • Ideological aspects of notation
  • Notation, aesthetics and cognition
  • Critical aesthetic and sociological studies
  • Notation and listening experiences

• 3. Psychological and Musical Acoustics
  • Psychoacoustics in notation
  • Virtualisation of acoustic spaces
  • Physical modeling
  • Psychoacoustics in listening experience

• 4. Listening and Teaching
  • Listening guides
  • Community music
  • Music mediation
  • Live and offline annotation
  • Notation for music pedagogy

https://soundscore.org/TENOR26