AES 2023 Conference on Audio Education
Call for Submissions
The AES is the only professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology. Its conferences are highly regarded from academia to industry, and bring together the foremost stakeholders and subject experts in one specific branch of audio.
Following successful Audio Education conferences in Glasgow, UK and Tennessee, USA, this year’s gathering is expected to draw educators from all over Europe and beyond.
The 2023 International Conference on Audio Education offers a varied three-day program with peer-reviewed paper presentations, keynote presentations, workshops, panels, sponsor booths, technical tours and social events. Spanning all areas of audio engineering, the theme is relevant to every type of education institution as well as manufacturers.
The host institution is PXL-Music, Belgium’s pop and rock school which offers studio and live engineering courses, and houses a research center with focuses on sound education, immersive audio, artificial intelligence and data science for the music industry.
Event:
Key Details:
Updated June 13, 2023
AES 2023 international Conference on Audio Education
PXL-Music, PXL University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Hasselt, Belgium
September 6 – 8, 2023
Conference Chair: Brecht De Man
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Key dates:
All sessions will take place in-person in Hasselt, Belgium.
Peer Reviewed Paper
Submission Deadline
April 21, 2023
Peer Reviewed Paper
Acceptance Decision
June 2, 2023
Peer Reviewed Paper Final Manuscript Deadline
July 14, 2023
Workshops Submission Deadline
April 21, 2023
Workshops
Acceptance Decision
June 2, 2023
Submission:
Quick Links
Updated March 8, 2023
Submission Guidelines
The conference will examine the technical, industrial and social changes affecting audio education and training while also focusing on instructional resources, teaching methods, learning outcomes, technical operations, areas for research, and similar topics that are relevant to organizations and individuals who provide theoretical and practical training in all areas of audio engineering.
The 2013 and 2021 conferences generated papers on topics that included career and industry trends, methods for teaching listening, mixing and perception, program and curriculum design, and numerous case studies. Workshops and social events also provided opportunities for networking and professional development.
The aim of the AES 2023 International Conference on Audio Education conference is to build on this foundation with updated perspectives, current research about our evolving field and additional contributions from trainers, faculty, researchers, managers and practitioners. Its outcomes will include a collection of peer-reviewed papers, historical documents, survey instruments, international collaborations, and potential recommendations for educational resource management and development.
The scope is extraordinarily wide – expecting attendance from all over the world with an emphasis on Europe, from all types of education institutions including companies, from very diverse perspectives and disciplines – but tied together by a focus on education in topics related to audio.
Original contributions are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following topics:
Students and Careers:
- Diversity, accessibility and inclusion in the classroom
- Changing roles of audio and media professionals in businesses and companies
- Relationships between student and faculty careers, academic research and industry
- Continuing professional development for audio engineers
What We Teach:
- Emerging topics, including:
- Audio networking,
- Immersive audio and
- Artificial intelligence
- Wellbeing during and after audio courses
Curricular Design:
- Program overviews and history
- Sound education in primary, secondary and non-traditional education
- Internationalization of audio programs
Pedagogy:
- Effective teaching and learning methods and technologies
- Strategies behind the design of educational programs in audio
- Discipline-specific case studies, including approaches to instruction and training in listening, production, perception, signal processing, teamwork, …
- Using Assessment for Learning and Continual Improvement
- Maintaining the competence of audio lecturers
Peer Reviewed Paper Submissions
Papers Co-Chairs: Miriam Iorwerth, Stephen B. Ward contact papers co-chairs
Authors should submit their full paper to the papers submission website by April 21. Proposals will be reviewed by at least two experts in the field. Accepted authors will be notified by June 2, 2023. Final manuscripts must follow any revisions guided by the committee’s review and will be due no later than July 14, 2023.
Workshop and Demonstration Submissions
Workshops Chair: Paul Thompson contact workshops chair
There will be a very limited number of session spaces available.
Suggestions for additional panels, demonstrations and workshops should be made on the workshops submission website by April 21, 2023.
Review and acceptance and will be based on the number of available session spaces, merit and interest to the AES education community and to ensure that any presentations will not be of a commercial nature. Notices of accepted workshops will be sent out no later than June 2, 2023.
Papers Publication
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. The papers will be published in the AES E-Library no earlier than 10 days before the conference starts.
Papers exceeding 10 pages run the risk of rejection without review. If such a paper is accepted the author will be charged a fee of $25 for every page over 10.
(Note that the submission site login is NOT the same as your AES login. You will need to create an EasyChair account if you have not submitted via that platform before.)
Downloadable templates
Peer Reviewed paper LaTeX template
Peer Reviewed paper Word template
**IMPORTANT NOTE** There have been some issues reported with the Latex templates. In your Overleaf project, if you delete the file latexrelease.sty so that the compiler can use the updated version that has been installed in the system itself, the project should compile without errors.
Open Access
Authors will have the option of submitting Open Access papers. For further information see http://www.aes.org/openaccess/
Registration requirements
PAPERS
Papers may be submitted by a single author or a group of authors. For each paper, a single “presenting author” is designated on the paper submission website – usually the person who will present the paper at the Conference. The presenting authors will be required to pay a Presenting Author Fee at the following applicable rate:
- AES members (Life member/Fellow/Member/Associate categories): $300
- Non AES members: $425
These amounts are required payment for all presenting authors. No additional registration fee will be required; all Presenting Authors will receive a free registration on payment of their Presenting Author Fee.
Further details will be sent with the paper acceptance notice.
Co-authors of a paper are welcome, and encouraged, to attend but will require a registration to access the sessions.
WORKSHOPS
All workshops/tutorial/demonstration presenters and panelists will be required to pay a registration fee.