Language-Music-Gesture: Informational Crossroads LMGIC on April 18-20, 2024 in St Petersburg, Russia

Conference will be organized by St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory and Vaganova Ballet Academy.

The goal of the International Scientific Conference is to create a comfortable interdisciplinary platform for a fruitful broad discussion of the problems of interaction in the conditions of the modern information world of the main semiotic systems that ensure human communication — language, music and gesture.

Among the topics proposed for discussion during the conference are the following:

1. The structure of linguistic and musical knowledge, features of their functioning and formation; implicit and explicit components; general and different in the perception and understanding of music and language.

2. Non-verbal means of communication; prosodic characteristics of speech, their perception; gestures, body language and its interaction with verbal communication.

3. Issues of language acquisition and musical skills; interaction between language and music in the process of their acquisition; interaction between cognitive systems responsible for the perception of musical and linguistic text.

4. Music informatics, computer and electroacoustic music; development of electronic musical instruments and performance principles; neural networks in music and language.

5. Automatic processing of language and music data; quantitative studies of musical and linguistic text.

Conference languages are Russian and English. Conference will be held in a hybrid format.

It is planned to publish selected articles in a special volume, indexed in one of the international scientific databases. Articles for publication will be selected based on the results of double-blind peer review.

Based on the results of the first conference, held in 2021, a collection of selected articles was published with Springer (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-3742-1).

 Applications from various fields of knowledge are accepted to participate in the conference. Speech time limit: 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.

Submit your application at the website before December 15, 2023. You may ask all your questions here: [email protected]

A completely anonymized application must contain brief information about the report in no more than 2 pages (without subheadings) and clearly reflect the statement of the problem, a critical review of the literature, the methodology and results of the study, and the conclusions obtained. Applications must be submitted in pdf format.

If it is necessary to include special characters in the text of the application (for example, phonetic transcription), then please send the application in two formats — pdf and doc.