The Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (ICCCM2025) will take place at Aalborg University, Denmark, on October 8–10, 2025. Following editions in Athens (2023) and Utrecht (2024), ICCCM2025 invites researchers to explore the intersection of musicology, computational methods and cognitive science in advancing our understanding of music and musical processes.
Key Information for Authors:
Submission Types: Abstracts for oral presentations or posters
Submission Limits: max. 300 words for main text + max. 1 page for references
Submission Deadline: 30 June, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: 15 July, 2025
Submission portal: Send your abstract as a PDF file to dave@create.aau.dk
Publication: Accepted abstracts published online; extended papers considered for a special issue of the Journal of New Music Research.
Conference Theme: "Getting to Grips with Musical Complexity"
This year’s theme encourages submissions addressing large and complex musical works or insights from diverse digital music collections. We especially welcome research using innovative computing paradigms (e.g., massive parallelism, quantum computing) to tackle challenges in musicology and music cognition. However, as in previous years, we remain fully open to any research that advances our understanding of music through computational approaches.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Computational modeling of musical history using big data
Theories of musical structure implemented computationally
Computational approaches to the study of music perception and cognition
Automatic music transcription
Computational music analysis
Digital representation of musical information
Development and use of digital corpora for musicological research
Health-related applications of music computing
Computational ethnomusicology
Teaching computational and digital musicology
User experience design for musicological tools
ICCCM stands out for its focus on fundamental research rather than application-driven perspectives, distinguishing it from conferences like ISMIR, MCM, or ICMPC. Its small size and informal atmosphere make it especially welcoming to early-stage researchers, who have been a significant presence at past editions.