9th Sound and Music Computing Conference, 12-14 July 2012 
Medialogy section,  Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University Copenhagen
http://smc2012.smcnetwork.org/

The SMC Conference is the forum for international exchanges around the core interdisciplinary topics of Sound and Music Computing, and features workshops, lectures, posters, demos, concerts of musical/sonic works, and satellite events. The SMC Summer School, which takes place just before the conference, aims at giving young researchers the opportunity to interactively learn about core topics in this interdisciplinary field from experts, and to build a network of international contacts. The specific theme of SMC 2012 is "Illusions", and that of the SMC Summer School is "Multimodality".

Important dates

• Deadline for submissions of music and sound installations: Friday, February 3, 2012
• Deadline for paper submissions: Monday 2 April, 2012
• Notification of music acceptances: Friday, March 16, 2012
• Deadline for applications to the Summer School: Friday March 30, 2012
• Notification of acceptance to Summer School: Monday April 16, 2012
• Deadline for submission of final music and sound installation materials: Friday, April 27, 2012
• Notification of paper acceptances: Wednesday 2 May, 2012
• Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers: Monday 4 June, 2012
• SMC Summer School: Sunday 8 – Wednesday morning 11 July, 2012
• SMC Workshops: Wednesday afternoon 11 July, 2012
• SMC 2011: Thursday 12 – Saturday 14 July, 2012

SMC2012 will cover topics that lie at the core of the Sound and Music Computing research and creative exploration. We broadly group these into:

• processing sound and music data
• modeling and understanding sound and music data
• interfaces for sound and music creation
• music creation and performance with established and novel hardware and software technologies

SMC 2012 will include paper presentations as both lectures and poster/demos. We invite submissions examining all the core areas of the Sound and Music Computing field. Submission related to the theme "Illusions" are especially encouraged. All submissions will be peer-reviewed according to their novelty, technical content, presentation, and contribution to the overall balance of topics represented at the conference. Paper submissions should have a maximum of 8 pages including figures and references, and a length of 6 pages is strongly encouraged. Accepted papers will be designated to be presented either as posters/demos or as lectures. 

SMC 2012 will include four curated concerts addressing the conference topic "Illusions". We invite submissions of original compositions created for acoustic instruments and electronics, novel instruments and interfaces, music robots, and speakers as sound objects. Submissions of sound installation are also encouraged. 

 

Our original goal in organizing SMC2011 was to contribute to the growth of our conference. Over the years, SMC has defined its own identity: a compact and selective conference, which aims at representing the whole spectrum of Sound and Music Computing research, looks for participation especially from young and emerging researchers, believes in interdisciplinary exchanges, grants open access to its contents. We are convinced that all these facets of the "SMC identity" have been well represented this year.
The Summer School included lectures and group projects around the topic of interaction and embodiment in sound and music. The Rencon Workshop has taken place for the second time in Europe and for the first time in Italy, and has been a special event of this year's SMC.
We received 136 submissions for the Technical Program, from which 30 were presented as oral communications and 43 as posters. Accepted papers are published under a Creative Commons license and are available on the smcnetwork portal. For the Music Program, our concert curators selected 16 works among 77 music submissions. Contributions were sent from 37 countries and 5 continents, which shows that our conference is no longer a EU-centered event and is becoming a worldwide reference. We have been very pleased to have philosopher Roberto Casati as our Keynote Speaker. His keynote address has reached its original goal of stimulating a reflection and a lively discussion around the concept of creativity.
Thanks to all contributors and to our >160 participants for making SMC2011 a succesful event. Stay tuned on our news and our social page for post-conference updates, including pictures and videos. 

Federico Avanzini
SMC2011 General Chair

Sound to Sense - Sense to Sound: A state of the art in Sound and Music Computing

 

Pietro Polotti, Davide Rocchesso [Hrsg.]
ISBN 978-3-8325-1600-0
490 pages, year of publication: 2008
price: 69.00 Eur

Stichworte/keywords: Sound and Music Computing , Music Cognition , Audio Signal Processing , Music Control and Performance , Sonic Interaction Design

Since the 1950's, Sound and Music Computing (SMC) research has been producing a profound impact on the development of culture and technology in our post-industrial society. SMC research approaches the whole sound and music communication chain from a multidisciplinary point of view. By combining scientific, technological and artistic methodologies it aims at understanding, modelling, representing and producing sound and music using computational approaches. This book, by describing the state of the art in SMC research, gives hints of future developments, whose general purpose will be to bridge the semantic gap, the hiatus that currently separates sound from sense and sense from sound.

The book can be purchased here.

The book is licensed CreativeCommons BY-NC-ND. A copy of the book can be downloaded here.