Music Technology meets Philosophy: From Digital Echos to Virtual Ethos

The 40th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) was hosted in Athens on 14–20 September 2014, for the first time jointly with the 11th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC). Its main theme was “Music Technology meets Philosophy: From Digital Echos to Virtual Ethos”. It was organised by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Department of Music Studies and Department of Informatics and Telecommunications), the Institute for Research on Music and Acoustics (IEMA) and the Onassis Stegi. Tassos Kolydas designed and implemented the participant registration system and the payment system, and supported the website and the operation of the web server and the mail server. He also attended the conference’s summer academy “Computational Music Analysis”.