Sound and Music Computing Conference

The Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Conference 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.

Disciplines & Topics

This sections speaks briefly about subfields related to Sound and Music Computing, for the main article, click here.

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.

Steering Committee

The SMC initiative is jointly supervised by the following European associations:

• AFIM (Association Française d'Informatique Musicale)
• AIMI (Associazione Italiana di Informatica Musicale)
• DEGEM (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektroakustische Musik)
• HACI (Hellenic Association of Music Informatics)
• SITEMU (Sociedad(e) Ibérica de TEcnología MUsical)

Past Conferences

• SMC 2010: 21-24 July 2010, Barcelona, Spain - Proceedings
• SMC 2009: 23-25 July 2009, Porto, Portugal - Proceedings
• SMC 2008: 31 July-3 August 2008, Berlin, Germany - Proceedings
• SMC 2007: 11-13 July 2007, Lefkada, Greece - Proceedings
• SMC 2006: 18-20 May 2006, Marseille, France - Proceedings
• SMC 2005: 24-26 November 2005, Salerno, Italy - Proceedings
• SMC 2004: 20-22 October 2004, Paris, France - Proceedings

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

See Also

• Sound and Music Computing
• International Society for Music Information Retrieval