The Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology is a forum for constructive interaction among all musically and musicologically relevant disciplines, including acoustics, aesthetics, anthropology, archeology, art history and theory, biology, composition, computing, cultural studies, education, ethnology, history, linguistics, literary studies, mathematics, medicine, music theory and analysis, perception, performance, philosophy, physiology, prehistory, psychoacoustics, psychology, semiotics, sociology, statistics, and therapy. CIM especially promotes collaborations between sciences and humanities, between theory and practice, as well as interdisciplinary combinations that are new, unusual, creative, or otherwise especially promising.

The first Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM04) was held in Graz/Austria, 15-18 April 2004. CIM04 was open to all musical research questions; it was hosted by the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) and the Department of Musicology, University of Graz and endorsed by 24 participating societies. The second Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM05) was held in Montreal/Canada, 10-12 March 2005. CIM05 focussed on the theme of Timbre, and was hosted by the Observatoire international de la création musicale (OICM) and the Faculty of Music of the University of Montréal. The third Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM07) was held in Tallinn/Estonia. The theme of CIM07 was Singing. CIM07 was hosted by the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, supported by the University of Tartu. The fourth Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM08) took place in Thessaloniki/Greece from 2-6 July 2008. The theme of CIM08 was Musical Structure from the viewpoint of all musically and musicologically relevant disciplines. CIM08 has been hosted by the Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

The fifth Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM09) will take place in Paris/France from 26-29 October 2009. The theme of CIM09 is Music and its Instruments. CIM09 will be hosted by the Université Pierre and Marie Curie, Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV, Cité de la Musique, musée du quai Branly, and presented in collaboration with the Société Française d'Acoustique.