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The 16th International Congress on Musical Signification will be held at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki

Twenty-five years after ICMS 7 and forty years after the first edition in Imatra, the ICMS returns to Finland. Since 1986, the ICMS congress has been organised every 2–4 years to gather together scholars of musical signification, signs in music, and musical meaning – recent developments and future trends in musical semiotics and related fields of research.

Under the ICMS 16 title, Music as a Meaningful Art, the congress themes include

  • analytical and historical approaches to evolving and persisting meaning(s) in music
  • topics, narratives and gestures as meaningful phenomena in music
  • embodiment of and in musical meanings
  • mechanisms and processes of music, mind, and meaning
  • semiotic and philosophical approaches to the ontology of music and its meaning(s)
  • synthesis of cognitive and cultural approaches to the study of meaning(s) in and of music
  • locality and globality of music as a meaningful art
  • relationship of musical meaning with learning and growth
  • relationship of musical meaning with therapy and wellbeing
  • music as a meaningful art in the era of technological explosion
  • sustainability and music as a meaningful art
  • relationship of societal phenomena, structures and policies with music as a meaningful art

The congress venue is the traditional building of the Sibelius Academy, located at the heart of the city of Helsinki, at Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 9. The venue is situated in the vicinity of e.g. Helsinki Music Centre, Helsinki Central Library Oodi, and the Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. The area is abundant in options for hotels and restaurants, and is readily accessible by public transportation e.g. from the Helsinki-Vantaa airport.

Further information and contact

For more information and updates, please visit the website at: https://www.uniarts.fi/en/events/icms-16-helsinki

Contact email: icms16helsinki@uniarts.fi

Director and founder of the project: Eero Tarasti, professor emeritus of musicology, University of Helsinki, Honorary President of the IASS (International Association for Semiotic Studies).

Organizing committee: Sibelius Academy professors Juha Ojala (chair), Anne Kauppala and Markus Mantere, university lecturer Laura Wahlfors, and musicologists Paul Forsell, Aleksi Haukka, and Mikko Metsälampi.