We are very pleased to announce the sponsorship of the conference by Yamaha R&D Centre London at the gold level. Yamaha R&D Centre London is a member of Yamaha Music Europe GmbH (UK).

In order to uncover people's affective relationships with music, please give your opinion and complete the sentence "I like music because..." on the CMMR 2012 Facebook page.

Some of your answers may be used during the conference panel discussions.

The deadline for music contributions to CMMR 2012 has been extended to 20th February 2012.

Call for music contributions: http://cmmr2012.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/call-for-music

Author instructions & Submission: http://cmmr2012.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/author-instructions

We are pleased to announce three great keynote speakers:

- Prof. Laurent Daudet (audio and music signal processing),

- Prof. Patrik N. Juslin (music perception and cognition), and

- Simon Boswell (BAFTA nominated film score composer).

More information at: http://cmmr2012.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/keynotes

The deadline for scientific contributions (papers, demonstrations, panels, tutorials) has been extended to 1st February 2012.

All other dates remain unchanged (http://cmmr2012.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/dates).

CMMR 2012 LaTeX and Word proceedings templates can be downloaded from the Author instructions & Submission page.

CMMR 2012 encourages the submissions of tutorials to share expertise and experience on specific topics appealing to the conference audience. Please visit the Call for tutorials if you are interested.

You can follow the latest news about CMMR 2012 on Twitter. CMMR 2012 Twitter account is: @CMMR2012.

This year, for the first time, Queen Mary University of London is partnering with the prestigious Wilton's Music Hall in East London to present two evening concerts colocated with CMMR. The Wilton's music hall is the "world's oldest, surviving Grand Music Hall and London's best kept secret." To learn more about the Wilton's, please visit our Music venue page.

The call for papers for the CMMR 2012 conference is now open! Please read the Call for Contributions page for further information. The deadline for paper submission is 18th of January, 2012.