The 50th Anniversary of the International Computer Music Conference will be held in Boston from June 8 – 14, 2025.

Welcome to BOSTON!

ICMC BOSTON 2025 will be a collaboration of five institutions all within a square mile of each other in the city’s vibrant Back Bay neighborhood, all within walking distance to the city’s Museum of Fine Arts, Symphony Hall, the Boston Common, and Fenway Park.

About the Event

International Computer Music Conference

The partnering institutions include Northeastern University, New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Emerson College.

David Wessel

The theme of ICMC BOSTON 2025 is Curiosity, Play, Innovation – A 50th Anniversary Celebration of Creativity in Music, Science and Technology. This theme is an homage to the working spirit of David Wessel (1942-2014), who organized the inaugural ICMC at Michigan State University in 1974.

Please visit this site in the upcoming weeks and months as it will become populated with details related to ICMC BOSTON 2025’s Call for Submissions, Schedule, Keynote Speakers, Registration, and Accommodations.

In the meantime, for more details, please do not hesitate to reach out to:

Anthony Paul De Ritis
ICMC 2025 Conference Chair
Professor, Music Department
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115 USA
a.deritis@northeastern.edu

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The image that appears in our ICMC BOSTON 2025 logo references a figure in David Wessel’s paper “Timbre Space as a Musical Control Structure,” published in the Computer Music Journal. “Ascending pitch patterns in “three” with two alternating timbres (“O” and “X”). If the timbral difference between adjacent notes is large, then one tends to perceive interleaved descending lines formed by the notes of the same timbral type.”

Wessel, David L. (1979). Timbre Space as a Musical Control Structure. Computer Music Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2, 45-52.