Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology
Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, 8-10 October 2025

Key Information for Authors

• Submission Types: Abstracts for oral presentations or posters
• Submission Limits: max. 300 words
• Submission Deadline: 15 June, 2025 30 June, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: 1 July, 2025 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 Overview

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.

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.

Submission Guidelines

We invite submission of abstracts (max. 300 words + max 1 page of references) for oral presentations and posters, outlining research questions, methods, and contributions.

• Submission Deadline: June 30th, 2025
• Notification: July 15th, 2025
• Submission: Send your abstract as a PDF file to dave@create.aau.dk  

Each abstract should include the following information:

• Title
• Name, affiliation and email address of each author
• Text of abstract (300 words maximum)
• Reference list (max 1 page)
• Authors may optionally also include up to one figure
• A statement as to whether you prefer to present orally or as a poster

There will be a light-weight review procedure regarding match to the aim of the conference, originality and quality of the proposal, and variety in content. Since space is restricted, we will also take order of submission into account.

Accepted abstracts will be published online, with authors invited to submit extended papers for a special issue of the Journal of New Music Research.

Travel stipends

Authors of accepted papers whose travel and accommodation will not be funded by their employer or a grant and have no other source of funding to cover the expenses they incur as a result of attending the conference, are eligible to apply for a grant to help with covering these costs. If you would like to be considered for one of these grants, please include a note to this effect in your submission email.

Acknowledgements

The conference is generously supported by the Carlsberg Foundation, grant CF24-2307.

Contact

Stay tuned to the conference website (https://digital.musicology.org/icccm2025/) for updates.

For general queries regarding the conference, contact the conference chair, David Meredith <dave@create.aau.dk>.

We look forward to your contributions to ICCCM2025!

The ICCCM 2025 Programme Committee