The theme for this year is: "Symbolic Sound"

All proposals will be considered; however, strong preference will be given to proposals for presentations, tutorials, workshops, group activities, or performances that address the theme of this year's symposium: the intersection of Kyma and the concept of symbolic sound (not the company name, but literally, sounds that function as symbols.)

All proposals (including paper presentations) should include sound (that is our topic after all!) All proposals should assume an educated audience from a broad range of professional backgrounds (participants will come from many different fields, all sharing an interest in sound and the Kyma language). Presenters should expect to address an educated, multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary audience; in the interest of communication, media-rich slide presentations are strongly encouraged. Also encouraged are group participation exercises and musical performances addresssing the theme.

What is "symbolic sound"? Possible proposals could include (but are by no means limited to):

Symbolic Sounds in Virtual Worlds: sound design for animation
Emerging symbols: Audio conventions and traditions in sound for games
Charging with Meaning: How sound can make or break a computer game
Leading a group Sound Design Exercise: Sound imagined, observed, and remembered
Guiding a group exercise / improvisation: Communicating with Sound Symbols
A Crash of Symbols: Listening to environmental sounds symbolically
Sound design tutorial: Creating sound objects where none exist
Discussion and performance of a music composition comprising symbolic sounds
Discussion and performance of a symbolic soundtrack for an imaginary film
Lost Sounds: Composing with sounds that symbolize a specific time and place
From the narrative to simulation: The changing role of Sound from illustration to imagination
Music is not a language: an argument that sound is not symbolic
Phenomenological analysis of Sound examples from the Arts and the real world
The symbolic value of the acoustic space: From the cathedral to the iPod
Symbolism in the classical western music tradition & electroacoustic music: Tonality, instrumentation, melody
From "Klangmalerei" to "Soundscape"
Acoustic symbols in nature and human cultures
The role of sound in the world's religions
Sound in creation myths
Numinous sound objects

Please allow your imagination to run free on this topic and send us your proposals (whether for power point presentations, plays, music, films, exercises, or other format).

If your skills are more journalistic, you could alternatively propose to:

Live blog or microblog from the symposium so that even those who cannot attend can still participate in the symposium
Write a report on the symposium for a magazine or journal
Document the events in photos on Flickr
Produce/orchestrate an audio and/or video stream of the event, live on the Internet
Document the event with video and/or audio recorders

We welcome your input and ideas on further ways to make this symposium even more memorable, fun, and useful for everyone.