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Confounding Expectations 2020: Music in the Information Age
Call for Papers, Presentations and Lecture-Recitals
University of Calgary, June 17-18, 2020
EXTENDED DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Living in our current era of information has defined the ways in which we view the virtual shrinking of our global world; this created an abrupt shift from the traditions defined by the Industrial age to those created by the Information Age. With growing awareness information has become a commodity in our ever-changing present. The Information Age can then be viewed on synonymous terms with the Computer, Digital or New Media age. Technology has created a new lens through which to examine music. The internet and other digital aspects of information affect our way of accessing, processing and distributing our thoughts and music in seemingly infinite ways: liveness and recording; digitization of music; digital distribution of music; social networking; examination of music in terms of data; digitization of the music industry; new music and technology; music creation; sonic arts and/or electro-acoustic composition and performance; music performance in an age of informational access and global connectivity etc. This list of Information Age effects is inexhaustive as this lens of examination is broad.