"The Inspirationals" is one of the ICMC novelties this year. The ICMC2005 team, together with the S2S� project (http://www.s2s2.org), proposed another way of actively participating and interacting in the conference apart from the traditional calls. A chance for researchers, composers, students and doctors to submit visionary, inspired and thought provoking ideas in the field of computer music; musical, technical, scientific, theoretical, practical or aesthetical ideas that fit in a single A4 page, but go far beyond it.

Thirty five inspired people submitted their work. Out of these, the reviewer panel chose twenty and grouped them into three broad categories: net/mobile/social, interfaces/interaction and music/analysis. The accepted proposals will be printed as handouts and authors will have a five minutes presentation in a free-spirited discussion forum somewhere near the old town of Barcelona, just after the summer night fall.

We believe the Inspirational sessions are a chance for us, the computer music community, to open our minds, rediscover the interdisciplinary aspects of our field and discus the new challenges and possibilities of the future. We are looking forward to seeing you in this very first episode of "The Inspirationals".

Thursday, September 8th

Net / Mobile / Social

Smartmobs And Music: Ad-Hoc Socializing By Portable Music Profiles - Stephan Baumann
Interactive Music For Mobile Digital Music Players - Martin Kaltenbrunner
Location-Based Music Generation System - Reinhold Behringer
Hypersound Network - Friedhelm Hartmann

Music / Analysis

Aesthetic Measurement For Time-Sequences - Kramann Guido
Material Interference - Shawn Greenlee
Intermedia Composition - Paul Hertz
There Is No Such Thing As Sound Design, In 2005 - Davide Rocchesso, Pietro Polotti
Prolegomena To The Sustainability Of Live Electro-Acoustic Music - Nicola Bernardini, Alvise Vidolin
Audio Content Analysis Of Electronic Music - Antonio Roda, Sergio Canazza
Hearing Of Listening - Olivier Warusfel, Isabelle Viaud-Delmon

Friday, September 9th

Interfaces / Interaction

Daivic; Developing Audio Interfaces For The Visually Impaired Community - Misael Rodr�guez Chac�n
Using Robots To Explore Models For Musical Virtuosity - Gil Weinberg
World Soundscape Browser - Rodrigo Segnini
Noise Control - G�nter Geiger
a l a u t Sound Suppository - Pedro Rebelo
Zooroke - A Sound Installation For Singing Along With Animals - Jordi Janer
Spectator Sound Simulation, The Football Match As A Sound Controller - Oscar Mayor
A Common Audio Dsp And Sound Synthesis Library Interface? - Gary Scavone, Pierre Laborde
110% - Maarten de Boer