Sound and Music Computing Conference

The Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Conference^[1] is the forum for international exchanges around the core interdisciplinary topics of Sound and Music Computing. The conference is held annually to facilitate the exchange of ideas in this field.

Focus topics

This sections speaks briefly about subfields related to Sound and Music Computing, for the main article, see Sound and music computing.

Sound and Music Computing (SMC) is a research field that studies the whole sound and music communication chain from a multidisciplinary point of view. The current SMC research field can be grouped into a number of subfields that focus on specific aspects of the sound and music communication chain.

Processing of sound and music signals: This subfield focuses on audio signal processing techniques for the analysis, transformation and resynthesis of sound and music signals.
Understanding and modeling sound and music: This subfield focuses on understanding and modeling sound and music using computational approaches. Here we can include Computational musicology, Music information retrieval, and the more computational approaches of Music cognition.
Interfaces for sound and music: This subfield focuses on the design and implementation of computer interfaces for sound and music. This is basically related to Human Computer Interaction.
Assisted sound and music creation: This subfield focuses on the development of computer tools for assisting Sound design and Music composition. Here we can include traditional fields like Algorithmic composition.

Past SMC Conferences

SMC 2022: 07-11 June 2022, St-Etienne, France
SMC 2021: 29 June-1 July 2021, Online
SMC 2020: 24–26 June 2020, Online
SMC 2019: 28–31 May 2019, Málaga, Spain
SMC 2018: 04-7 July 2018, Limassol, Cyprus
SMC 2017: 01-4 July 2017, Helsinki, Finland
SMC 2016: 31 August-3 September 2016, Hamburg, Germany
SMC 2015: 26 July-1 August 2015, Maynooth, Ireland
SMC 2014 (joint with ICMC): 14–20 September, Athens, Greece
SMC 2013 (join with SMAC): 30 July-3 August, Stockholm, Sweden
SMC 2012: 11–14 July 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark
SMC 2011: 06–9 July 2011, Padova, Italy
SMC 2010: 21–24 July 2010, Barcelona, Spain
SMC 2009: 23–25 July 2009, Porto, Portugal
SMC 2008: 31 July-3 August 2008, Berlin, Germany
SMC 2007: 11–13 July 2007, Lefkada, Greece
SMC 2006: 18–20 May 2006, Marseille, France
SMC 2005: 24–26 November 2005, Salerno, Italy
SMC 2004: 20–22 October 2004, Paris, France

All SMC proceedings are available in the SMC Community on the open-access repository Zenodo. For more up-to-date information on the SMC conferences refer to its website.^[1]

The SMC Summer School

Each year, along with the conference, the SMC summer school^[2] is conducted. It promotes interdisciplinary education and research in the field of Sound and Music Computing. It is aimed at graduate students working on their Master or PhD thesis, but it is also open to any person carrying out research in this field.

Related Summer Schools

Notes

^ ^a ^b SMC Conference - http://www.smcnetwork.org/#smc
^ SMC Summer School - http://www.smcnetwork.org/school.html

[official_site-1] SMC Conference - http://www.smcnetwork.org/#smc

[summer_school-2] SMC Summer School - http://www.smcnetwork.org/school.html

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