Ubiquitous Music is a research field that targets the expansion of music-making, as a basic human right. Emerging second-wave frameworks address various demands within the field. Some threads engage with support for legacy forms of artistic practice. Other threads aim to explore the frontiers of technological development, while pushing for a firmer theoretical groundwork to enable alternative ways to think about musical experiences.
The Ubiquitous Music Symposium (formerly known as the Workshop on Ubiquitous Music) will be held from September 15 to 17, 2025, in Brandenburg, Germany at the Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences (THB). Researchers working on ubiquitous music topics are invited to submit initial research ideas and complete research outcomes, including artistic and educational results. The official language is English, but both in-person and remote activities will support presentations in other languages. Selected papers will be included in ongoing ubimus editorial projects according to the targeted themes: Arts & Communications Journal, and Leonardo Journal.
It will be possible to participate on site or online. Accordingly, there will be sessions for presentations both on site and online. The aim is to coordinate both well and to take into account the partners in the different time zones when scheduling the online appointments.
Deadline for Written & Artistic Submissions: 15 April 2025.
It will be possible to participate on site or online. Accordingly, there will be sessions for presentations both on site and online. The aim is to coordinate both well and to take into account the partners in the different time zones when scheduling the online appointments.
All contributions to UbiMus2025 should be sent as a pdf file to dWJpbXVzQHRo-brandenburg.de. To facilitate the processing of your submissions, please adhere to the following guidelines:
More detailed information on the authors will be recorded subsequently with the accepted contributions via the registration. You will be informed about the corresponding procedure if it becomes necessary.
Please use the official templates, which you can access via the following links:
We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to:
Please submit your research as full papers (12 pages) or short papers (work-in-progress) (4 pages), including references and acknowledgements. Papers may be written in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, or German, adhering strictly to the UbiMus template and submitted as a PDF. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Please remove any identification of authors and avoid self-references in the submitted text. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings and may be considered for inclusion in special issues.
Submit workshop proposals as a two-page PDF, with links to video and/or music. Outline the infrastructure required. A basic working setup will be provided by the organizers; any custom equipment must be brought by the proponents.
It is also possible to propose public workshops that can take place in the Archaeological State Museum.
Workshop area in the Archaeological State Museum © 2025 by Guido Kramann.
Artists, composers, and performers are invited to submit musical proposals employing web-based, mobile-based, DIY, or DIT resources—whether cutting-edge or vintage/archaeological technologies. Online streaming proposals should include a fixed-media backup.
Please provide a two-page summary of the artwork’s concepts and methods (see the suggested topics above), and a detailed description of the technical requirements. Use the official template for manuscript preparation. Artistic submissions do not need to be anonymous.
There are plans to purchase a Disklavier (DYUS1) at the TH-Brandenburg. However, it will probably not be there in time for the conference. However, scientific and artistic contributions for this instrument are very welcome. Whether it will finally be possible to make the instrument available during the conference or whether, for example, a presentation date for these contributions will be planned for a time after the conference will be announced here.
There is a cooperation with the Archaeological State Museum in Brandenburg an der Havel. This museum is located in an old monastery in the city. As a special feature of UbiMus 2025, interactive sound installations can be proposed that are intended to be presented to the public in the upper cloister of the monastery (oberer Kreuzgang) or outside in the inner courtyard of the monastery.
Upper Cloister (Oberer Kreuzgang) © 2025 by Guido Kramann.
Inner Courtyard of the Monastery © 2025 by Guido Kramann.
Media examples should be made available for electronic download as a single ZIP or RAR file, via a cloud-based platform. Media files must use standard codecs; do not upload them directly to the submission system.
Examples of Artistic Formats
Technical Description (PDF)
Your technical description (one PDF) should include:
No fees are charged, which is why it is possible to open participation in all local events to the public.
Postal address:
Technische Hochschule Brandenburg
Magdeburger Straße 50
14770 Brandenburg an der Havel
Germany
The presentations, workshops and artistic performances will take place on the premises of the Department of Technology and in the State Archaeological Museum.
Department of Engineering, Engineering Science Center IWZ (Fachbereich Technik, Ingenieurwissenschaftliches Zentrum IWZ) © 2025 by Guido Kramann.
State Archaeological Museum (Archäologisches Landesmuseum) © 2025 by Guido Kramann.
In addition to many small apartment accommodations, the venues can be easily reached on foot or by streetcar from the following hotels:
Hotel am Molkenmarkt
Sorat Hotel Brandenburg
City Hotel-Pension Brandenburg
The nearest airport is Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER).
The airport and the larger surrounding cities (Potsdam, Berlin, Magdeburg) are very easy to reach by regional train.
Travel times by train between Brandenburg an der Havel and...:
See also:
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