About the Congress

With the social use of technology, interconnectivity and instantaneity, we are faced with the challenge of equipping musicians with the concepts and mindset to adapt their professional skills development to the current paradigm and to understand and creatively address changes in their respective fields. Educational institutions must seek new concepts of knowledge production and redefine their structures to become hybrid models of research and hosting centres, laboratories and publishers, funders and archivists, all under one roof. Interdisciplinarity is the keyword of the moment, but what are the personal and social prerequisites for a successful integration of the parties involved in contemporary music teaching, practice and innovation, including all their traditions, cultural backgrounds, instrumentalities and mentalities?

We believe that physical and social technologies have always been and will always be a crucial source of knowledge production and inspiration for artists, scientists and engineers. However, in the face of drastic and unprecedented reconfigurations of societies and economic structures, artistic practice and knowledge production cannot but constantly ask themselves:

Will these fascinating technologies inspire uniformity or diversity?

Objectives

• To offer an overview of the link between music and Artificial Intelligence.
• To innovate in the field of emerging pedagogies in the artistic field.
• To present new innovative proposals in the field of musical pedagogy and artistic creation.
• Learning in the environment of the new digital era from a transdisciplinary artistic perspective.
• To present different lines of research linked to the fields of culture and musical society in the 21st century.

Aimed at

• Students of the DART programme and institutions of higher artistic education.
• PhD students from UVa and other universities.
• Undergraduate students from UVa and other universities.
• Teachers of artistic disciplines
• Other interested persons.

Research Fields

1. Innovation in music pedagogy.
2. Research and perception of sound (reception and psychology of sound).
3. Innovation in scenic-performative innovation.

Structure & Methodology

The congress will include 3 areas of research; each with the following structure: Plenary Conference and Expert Panel Discussion.

Plenary Conference

Plenary speakers, selected from among the world’s leading thinkers, will give formal presentations on topics of broad interest to the conference community and delegation.

Panel Discussion

For papers that are best discussed or debated rather than informed by a formal presentation, these sessions provide a forum for an extended ‘round table’ conversation among a small group of experts.

The inauguration will be presided over by the Rector of the University of Valladolid, Mr. Antonio Largo.

Conference Program

Fees

Congress Papers

We invite academics, researchers, teachers and students to submit their abstract.

Papers must be original and unpublished and address the research fields of the Congress:

1. Innovation in music pedagogy.
2. Research and sound perception (reception and psychology of sound).
3. Scenic-performative innovation.

A maximum of three papers may be presented as authors. The first author will be the corresponding author in charge of communicating the status of the presentation to the other co-authors. All authors of a paper must be registered at the Congress for it to be accepted.
Authors must place their work in one or more of the above-mentioned priority areas or propose others.

They must comply with the following rules:

Abstracts should be 500 words in the main body (excluding title, authors and bibliographical references).

Papers should be prepared using the available templates: DOWNLOAD HERE.

Authors can modify the titles of the sections to adapt them to their work, but always respecting the style of the template. Papers must follow the APA 7th edition style for bibliographical references, both in the body of the abstract and in the final list.

Abstracts will be subject to blind evaluation, and will be sent to the Congress organisers only through the following e-mail address: papers@ikg.institute.

Once the abstract has been accepted, an email will be sent from the address with the requirements to be met by presenters.

The author(s) will have a maximum of 10 minutes for the presentation, which will be in person or by videoconference for duly justified reasons.

The deadline for abstract submission will be Tuesday 30 April 2025.

Impact and dissemination:

The Congress can represent an important exchange and contribution of knowledge on ways to address musical innovation in the new conditions of globalisation and cultural industries in the digital era, thus collaborating in the adaptation of public communication policies and their culture.
The Congress is seen as an opportunity to strengthen collaboration between researchers from different universities, educational and research centres working on similar topics, who will benefit from the exchange and the possibility of creating new networks and research teams.
After the Congress, the results will be compiled in a digital Book of Abstracts with ISBN in Congress Proceedings format. The Scientific Committee will select a limited number of papers that will be transformed into a book chapter by their authors and published in a Monographic Book by the Tirant publishing house (Spanish publisher number 1 in prestige, SPI).

The Congress team is always available to answer any questions or comments you may have about our event or website. If you need information about the Congress, deadlines or simply want to share your suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us. We greatly value your feedback as it helps us to continually improve. Your feedback is essential to optimise our service. Feel free to write to us and we will get back to you as soon as possible at the following email address: congress@ikg.institute

Registration

Registration and payment of the congress fees can be made through the website of the Fundación General de la Universidad de Valladolid (FunGe) at the following LINK

Organising Committee

•  Inés María Monreal Guerrero. Universidad de Valladolid
•  David Carabias Galindo. Universidad de Valladolid
•  María José Vallés del Pozo. Universidad de Valladolid
•  Saray Prados Bravo. Universidad de Valladolid
•  Manuel del Río Lobato. Universidad de Valladolid
•  Verónica Castañeda Lucas. Universidad de Valladolid
•  Alberto Acebes de Pablo. Universidad de Valladolid
•  Sara Herrero Gozalo. Universidad de Valladolid
•  Verónica Pons León. Universidad de Valladolid
• Ángel Páez Ayala. Universidad de Valladolid
• María de la O Cortón de las Heras. Universidad de Valladolid
•  Rocío Collado Alonso. Universidad de Valladolid
• Rebeca Becerra Moraes. Universidad de Valladolid
•  Fátima Martín Gómez de Carbajo. Universidad de Valladolid
• Irene Rivera Pérez. Universidad de León

Scientific Committee

• Inés María Monreal Guerrero. Universidad de Valladolid 
• David Carabias Galindo. Universidad de Valladolid
• Paulino Capdepón Verdú. Universidad de Castilla la Mancha 
• David Ruiz Molina. CSKG  
• Nuria Fernández Herranz. CSKG 
• Alfonso Aguirre Dergal. CSKG 
• Eva Gancedo. CSKG 
• Felipe Gertrudix Barrio. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha 
• José Ignacio Palacios Sanz. Universidad de Valladolid 
• Juan José Pastor Comín. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha 
• María de la O Cortón de las Heras. Universidad de Valladolid 
• Alberto Acebes de Pablo. Universidad de Valladolid 
• Sara Herrero Gozalo. Universidad de Valladolid 
• Verónica Pons León. Universidad de Valladolid 
• Antonio Narejos Bernabéu. Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional 
• María José Vallés del Pozo. Universidad de Valladolid 
• Verónica Castañeda Lucas. Universidad de Valladolid 
• María Ángeles Sevillano Tarrero. Universidad de Valladolid 
• Ángela Morales Fernández. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 
• Jesús Tejada Giménez. Universidad de Valencia 
• Adolf Murillo Ribes. Universidad de Valencia 
• Anna Mercedes Vernia Carrasco. Universidad Jaume I 
• María Elena Riaño Galán. Universidad de Cantabria 
• Cristina Arriaga Sanz. Universidad del País Vasco 
• Yurima Blanco García. Universidad de Valladolid 
• Soledad Atienza Valero. Universidad de Valladolid 
• Saray Prados Bravo. Universidad de Valladolid 
• Manuel del Río Lobato. Universidad de Valladolid 
• José Luis Parejo Llanos. Universidad de Valladolid 
• María Victoria Martínez Vérez