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Front cover. Illustrations from the articles by Izzo and Schnug. The top image contains spectrograms of the three audio channels from a portion of Varèse’s Poème électronique, placed above diagrams showing the paths along which the sound of each channel was routed to the many loudspeakers in the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. The bottom image represents the structure of Schnug’s composition Nativitas Motus Lignorum. The columns indicate successive sections of the piece, and the rows display the geometric forms that circumscribe the spatial trajectories of sounds in each section. Back cover. Back cover. The top illustration portrays six performers in the ScoreCraft scenario “Show Biz” as presented at the 2022 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). The bottom illustration depicts Hurtado, de la Cuadra, and Torres’s robotic mechanism that plays a flute while receiving instructions from their computer software. The robot’s “fingers” are at left, and the circular inset reveals a close-up of the artificial mouth next to the flute’s mouthpiece.