The Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Conference is the forum for international exchanges around the core interdisciplinary topics of

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. By combining scientific, technological and artistic methodologies it aims at understanding, model ...

. The conference is held annually to facilitate the exchange of ideas in this field.

Focus topics

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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. By combining scientific, technological and artistic methodologies it aims at understanding, model ...

. 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 Audio signal processing is a subfield of signal processing that is concerned with the electronic manipulation of audio signals. Audio signals are electronic representations of sound waves—longitudinal waves which travel through air, consisting ...

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 Computational musicology is an interdisciplinary research area between musicology and computer science. Computational musicology includes any disciplines that use computers in order to study music. It includes sub-disciplines such as mathematical m ...

Music information retrieval Music information retrieval (MIR) is the interdisciplinary science of retrieving information from music. MIR is a small but growing field of research with many real-world applications. Those involved in MIR may have a background in academic musicol ...

, and the more computational approaches of

Music cognition Music psychology, or the psychology of music, may be regarded as a branch of both psychology and musicology. It aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and experience, including the processes through which music is perceived, created, res ...

. * ''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 Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, an ...

. * ''Assisted sound and music creation'': This subfield focuses on the development of computer tools for assisting

Sound design Sound design is the art and practice of creating sound tracks for a variety of needs. It involves specifying, acquiring or creating auditory elements using audio production techniques and tools. It is employed in a variety of disciplines including ...

and

Music composition Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music. People who create new compositions are called c ...

. Here we can include traditional fields like

Algorithmic composition Algorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create music. Algorithms (or, at the very least, formal sets of rules) have been used to compose music for centuries; the procedures used to plot voice-leading in Western counterpoin ...

Past SMC Conferences

SMC 2022
07-11 June 2022, St-Etienne, France
SMC 2021
29 June-01 July 2021, Online
SMC 2020
24-26 June 2020, Online
SMC 2019
28-31 May 2019, Málaga, Spain
SMC 2018
04-07 July 2018, Limassol, Cyprus
SMC 2017
01-04 July 2017, Helsinki, Finland
SMC 2016
31 August-03 September 2016, Hamburg, Germany
SMC 2015
26 July-01 August 2015, Maynooth, Ireland
SMC 2014
(joint with ICMC): 14-20 September, Athens, Greece
SMC 2013
(join with SMAC): 30 July-03 August, Stockholm, Sweden
SMC 2012
11–14 July 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark
SMC 2011
06–09 July 2011, Padova, Italy * SMC 2010: 21–24 July 2010, Barcelona, Spain
SMC 2009
23–25 July 2009, Porto, Portugal
SMC 2008
31 July-03 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 th
SMC Community
on the open-access repository

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. For more up-to-date information on the SMC conferences refer to its website.

The SMC Summer School

Each year, along with the conference, the SMC summer school 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

* International Summer School of Systematic Musicology *

Darmstadt School Darmstadt School refers to a group of composers who were associated with the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music (Darmstädter Ferienkurse) from the early 1950s to the early 1960s in Darmstadt, Germany, and who shared some aesth ...

* European Summer School in Information Retrieval * IEEE Signal Processing Society Summer School on Game Audio * International Hamburg Summerschool for Filmmusic, Gamemusic and Sounddesign * International Summer School on Computational Musicology of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music * Oticon Audiology Summer Camp * Utrecht Summer School in Music Information Retrieval (USMIR)

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Focus topics

Past SMC Conferences

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Related Summer Schools

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