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The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC), in conjunction with the Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras (CMMAS), presented the winners of the 23rd annual Jeu de temps [Times Play] awards selected from 73 submissions by 77 artists from 11 countries in North America, South America, and Europe. The first-prize winners of the Canadian and Latin American sections of the awards were featured in a concert during the Akousma Festival, 11–14 October 2022, in Montréal, Canada: Elliot Yair Hernández López for “Ritual” and Joseph Sims and Katie Finn for “e (mi),” which also won the Jean Piché award for videomusic, new media, and creative coding. Alejandro Brianza's “Kowloon” won the Hildegard Westerkamp award for soundscape and sound installation, Véro Marengère's “Hydra” won the Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux award for self-identified female and nonbinary electroacoustic artists, and Diego Bermudez Chamberland's “Manic” won the Martin Gotfrit and Martin Bartlett award for live electroacoustic practices.Web: jttp.sonus.ca/2022Studio PANaroma at São Paulo State University (UNESP) hosted the 14th Bienal Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de São Paulo (BIMESP), 22–25 November 2022, in São Paulo, Brazil. Eight concerts presented a total of 43 works—a mix of new and classic works—using the PANaroma/Unesp: Teatro Sonoro (PUTS), a 60-channel loudspeaker orchestra, in the sound system's 20th anniversary. The concerts honored the centenary of Iannis Xenakis as well as living composers François Bayle at 90 years, Jorge Antunes at 80, Denis Smalley at 75, and Studio PANaroma director Flo Menezes at 60. One concert featured eight works by Chilean composers, ranging from 1956 to 2003, and another concert presented the finalists of the Prix Russolo, with public voting on a winner—of the seven finalists, Diego Ratto ultimately won the 2022 Prix Russolo competition for “KOM.”Web: www.ia.unesp.br/Modulos/Noticias/300/xiv_bimesp_2022_program.pdfTimothy Roy won first prize in the 26th annual Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition competition for “dans les dents de la guivre” for harp, multichannel electronics, and lighting. It is a monodrama in five movements in which the harpist portrays 14th-century noblewoman Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans, imagined in her final days. Emre Sihan Kaleli won second prize for “Adjacent Rooms, a Part of a Labyrinth,” and Tomasz Skweres won third prize for “Event Horizon.” The Illinois Modern Ensemble performed the winning works using a 127-speaker sound system on 29 September 2022 as well as performing Martirano's 1985 composition “Sampler: Everything Goes When the Whistle Blows” for electric violin and synthesizers and Brian J. Hinkley's work titled “Total Inaction.” The jury consisted of David Rosenboom, Elizabeth McNutt, and Reynold Tharp.Web: music.illinois.edu/about-us/news/martirano-award-winners-announcedThe 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) took place 4–8 December 2022 in Bangalore, India. Keynote presentations included TM Krishna on the evolution of Indian art music and Richa Singh on deepfakes and bias in audio processing. A plenary session on women researchers featured Xiao Hu on music for learning and well-being, Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro's personal view on working in the field, Chitralekha Gupta on automated vocal analysis, and Shahar Elisha presenting “Research on the Industrial Lane.” A panel on enhancing music listening included representatives from the music companies Chordify, Pandora, Utopia, and Moises, and a panel on enhancing musical creativity included representatives from Smule, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Adobe, Yamaha, and Moises.Of the 113 paper presentations in the conference, the Best Paper award went to Lele Liu, Qiuqiang Kong, Veronica Morfi, and Emmanouil Benetos for using neural beat tracking to convert MIDI data into music notation, and the Best New Idea award was given to Jaidev Shriram, Makarand Tapaswi, and Vinoo Alluri for a system that generates musical soundtracks to accompany books. Honoring the conference's special call theme of cultural and social diversity, the Best Special Call Paper award went to Martin Clayton, Preeti Rao, Nithya Nadig Shikarpur, Sujoy Roychowdhury, and Jin Li for a system that classifies Indian ragas in vocal performances. The event also included a concert of 13 electronic works and a jugalbandi concert of Hindustani and Carnatic vocal art music.Web: ismir2022.ismir.net

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