Minutes of the TC-MA meeting in Budapest

European Acoustics Association
Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics

1. Welcome by the chairman
2. Report by the chairman about
   • Preparation of this meeting
   • Organisation of sessions
   • Database of members of the TCMA: Everybody is requested to sign in for inclusion in the list and to agree to publish e-mail and homepage
3. Greetings from ASA TCMA (James P. Cottingham)
   • There is a list of musical acousticians on the ASA webpage – check whether you are on it correctly!
4. Report about UK MA network http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/acoustics/MAN/MAN.html by Murray Campbell. There are funding possibilities for exchange of graduate students! The link will be put on the EAA website.
5. Report about ViennaTalk2500 http://www.bias.at/ViennaTalk2005 by Matthias Bertsch. European collaboration proposals presented there will be put on the EAA website using the new specialised workgroup pages.
6. ISMA 2007, Sept. 2-7 in Barcelona http://isma2007.org
   > ICA 2007, Sept. 9-12 in Madrid <a href="http:/www.ica2007madrid.org">http://www.ica2007madrid.org
   > Everybody is encouraged to organise a session there - contact EAA TCMA! <li>
7. Other coming events:
   • Forum Acusticum, ASA & SFA 2008, June, 29- July, 4 in Paris http://www.sfa.asso.fr
   • 8è CFA - Congrès Français d'Acoustique – TOURS, 2006, April, 24-27 http://www.lussi.univ-tours.fr
   • Toulouse les Orgues 2005, Oct. 9-10 in Toulouse, France
   • Round table, 2005, Dec. 3 near Paris
   • The 3rd International Symposium on Temporal Design, Oct. 2007 in Guangzhou, China http://www.jtdweb.org
   See also http://www.eaa-fenestra.org/Events
8. Working Groups
   are to be established by interested members. Look at the TC-RBA as a reference http://www.eaa-fenestra.org/TCs/RBA. Interested co-ordinators are to contact Malte Kob (eaa-fenestra@euracoustics.org) to get access rights for their work group area at the EAA website. They and other members of a work group can publish there news, follow ups, downloadable files,… like in a forum. Global news on the front page of the EAA site can be sent to Malte Kob by e-mail. Proposed work groups to start with are:
   • Education: List of all studies, courses
   • Funding: Observe EU-Calls and comment on applicable funding instruments. Collect links to relevant EU documents and reference projects. Publish experiences with European funding
   • Musical Synthesis and Modelling – Wind instruments (ARTLIB proposal by Wilfried Kausel), Singing Voice (a similar proposal by Malte Kob)
   • Historic Instruments
9. Next Meeting most probably at ISMA in Barcelona!
10. Acoustic dictionary on EAA website: Links to WikiPedia should be added and corresponding WikiPedia entries should be created/checked/updated by the EAA community.
11. Literature database at www.bias.at can be used as a starting point for a growing database on the EAA website which can be maintained and extended by the EAA TC-MA members in the future.