The Ubiquitous Music conference 2027

International Symposium on Ubiquitous Music

May 10-11 2027 > Porto Seguro, Brazil – Hong Kong + Hybrid

About

The Ubiquitous Music Symposium (UbiMus) (formerly known as the Workshop on Ubiquitous Music) is a symposium that brings together researchers, artists and educators to treat music-making as a primary human activity, supported by networks, small devices, shared rooms and public places.
UbiMus operates in a space between music, computing, education, creativity studies, design and engineering. We welcome research outcomes or work-in-progress proposals, including papers, music, panels, workshops and demos.

Recent meetings have been held in Matosinhos, Curitiba, Derry, Macao and Brandenburg. The official language is English, but both in-person and remote events will support presentations in other languages.

This Years Event

In Brandenburg 2026 we asked three core questions that still hold true:

> How do networked computers, mobile devices and small connected objects change or develop practice around how music is made, shared and heard?

> How do cultural practices shift when these tools are accessible and distributed, rather than tailored for specialists?

> What new avenues emerge as amateurs, students and everyday users utilise the same toolsets and techniques as researchers or professional musicians?

UbiMus 2027 invites work that considers these questions carefully in indoors settings, urban environments, classrooms, and remote and connected perspectives. Maker focussed hardware, ecological practice, improvisation and comprovisation, sonification, domestic setups, and lay–musician collaboration works are all in scope. Web audio is welcome, when it serves this focus; but it is not the primary subject of this years event. Please see the Web Audio Conference for a specific track in this area: https://wac2027.codigo.xyz/

We welcome initial results as well as developed studies, and we welcome performance, composition and artistic outcomes alongside research papers.

Topics

Suggested topics include, without being limited to: accessibility and inclusion; everyday musical creativity; ecologically grounded practice; DIY plus DIT and embedded hardware; Internet of Musical Stuff, robotics, edge and dew computing; improvisation and comprovisation; computational creativity; lay–musician interaction; sonification and auditory display; domestic ubimus; collaborative and dialogic practice; ubimus philosophy; gastrosonics; field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

Tracks

Papers
Please submit your research as full papers (12 pages) or short papers (work-in-progress), including references and acknowledgements. Papers may be written in English, Portuguese, or Spanish, adhering strictly to the UbiMus template and submitted as a PDF. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Please remove any identification of authours and avoid self-references in the submitted text. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings and may be considered for inclusion in the Journal of Ubiquitous Music or Frontiers in Signal Processing.

References are in the APA format, details here.

Please use one the templates provided in the preparation of paper submissions.

Latex Template – Word Template – LibreOffice Template

Workshops
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 organisers (stereo/binaural only, please); any custom equipment must be brought by the proponents.

Artistic works
Artists, composers and performers are invited to submit Installations, performances, compositions and listening pieces (under 10 minute in duration) plus hybrid forms.

Proposals for online streaming should be accompanied by a fixed-media backup.

Submissions comprise a two-page account of the work’s concepts and methods and a full statement of technical requirements. Manuscripts must follow the official UbiMus template. Artistic submissions need not be anonymised. A basic working setup will be provided by the organisers (stereo); any custom equipment must be brought by the proponents.