2012-07-06 First Announcement and Call for Contributions
SMAC 2013
STOCKHOLM MUSIC ACOUSTICS CONFERENCE 2013
30 July – 3 August
presented jointly with
SMC 2013
SOUND AND MUSIC COMPUTING CONFERENCE 2013
30 July – 2 August
Hosted by
Sound and Music Computing Research Group (aka Music Acoustics)
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden
with the collaboration of
KMH Royal College of Music
Stockholm, Sweden
SMAC Conference Chair: Sten Ternström
SMC Conference Chair: Roberto Bresin
SMC Music Chair: Bill Brunson
Contact info
SMAC 2013: smac-2013@csc.kth.se
SMC 2013: smc-2013@csc.kth.se
Main venue: KTH Campus
SMAC 2013 welcomes contributions in musical acoustics and closely related fields, such as
• Instrument acoustics
• Singing voice
• Physics-based modelling
• Room acoustics for music
• Music performance analysis
• Music performance rendering
• Models for music analysis and synthesis
• Music acoustics in music and physics education
• Teaching and performing music over telepresence systems
SMC 2013 welcomes contributions on all the core topics in Sound and Music Computing research, including notably:
• Spatial sound
• Auditory display and data sonification
• Automatic separation, recognition, classification of sound and music
• Automatic music generation/accompaniment systems
• Computational musicology
• Computer environments for sound/music processing
• Content processing of music audio signals
• Digital audio effects
• Humanities in sound and music computing
• Interactive performance systems
• Interfaces for sound and music
• Methodological issues in sound and music computing
• Models for sound analysis and synthesis
• Multimodality in sound and music computing
• Music and robotics
• Music information retrieval
• Perception and cognition of sound and music
• Social interaction in sound and music computing
• Sonic interaction design
• Sound and music for VR and games
• Sound/music and the neurosciences
• Sound/music signal processing algorithms
• Technologies for the preservation, access and modelling of musical heritage
The reviewers will select for oral presentation primarily papers that present significant experimental or theoretical results; or that otherwise advance the current knowledge in the field.
Satellite events
· Sound and Music Computing Summer School, 3-6 August 2013 (max 20 participants)
· RENCON competition 30 July 2013
· Johan Sundberg’s summer course on the Function of the Singing Voice, 5-9 August 2013 (max 25 participants)
SMAC / SMC dates
Deadline for music submissions:
Friday 29 March 2013
Deadline for full paper submissions (max 4 pages):
Friday 29 March 2013
Deadline for applications to the SMC Summer School:
Friday 29 March 2013
Notification of SMC Summer School acceptance:
Monday 22 April 2013
Notification of paper and music acceptance:
Wednesday 15 May 2013
Deadline for electronic submission of camera-ready papers:
Monday 3 June 2013
Deadline for electronic submission of final music materials:
Monday 3 June 2013
SMC Summer School:
Saturday 3 August – Tuesday 6 August 2013
RENCON Workshop and satellite events:
Tuesday 30 July 2013
SMC/SMAC 2013:
Wednesday 31 July – Saturday 3 August 2013
