this book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th international symposium on computer music modeling and retrieval, cmmr 2009, held in copenhagen, denmark, in may 2009. the 25 revised full papers presented were specially reviewed and corrected for this proceedings volume. the conferences topics include auditory exploration of data via sonification and audification; real time monitoring of multivariate date; sound in immersive interfaces and teleoperation; perceptual issues in auditory display; sound in generalized computer interfaces; technologies supporting auditory display creation; data handling for auditory display systems; applications of auditory display.