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[On behalf of the Organizing Committee]
[Apologies for cross postings] [Please distribute] —————— 2nd call —————— Sound and Music
Computing Conference and Summer School 2016
Hamburg, Germany
Friday, August 26 to
Saturday, September 3, 2016.
CONFERENCE
The Hamburg
University of Music and Theatre in association with the Hamburg
University of Applied Sciences, the University of Hamburg and
the Leuphana University Lüneburg will host the 13th Sound and
Music Computing Conference (SMC) in Hamburg (Germany) from
Wednesday, August 31 to Saturday, September 3, 2016.
The
conference motto is S.T.R.E.A.M. (Sound - Technology - Room -
Emotion - Aesthetics - Music). Keynote speakers will be John
Chowning, Cat Hope, Trevor Pinch and Eduardo Miranda.
S.T.R.E.A.M. FESTIVAL
A music
festival with a total of 8 concerts will accompany the
conference, featuring a special concert on real-time
composition/notation and animated scores as well as a concert
honoring John Chowning, the inventor of FM synthesis and
"father" of the DX 7. The opening day of the conference will
showcase the past and present of computer music in Hamburg, home
of two of the earliest and most influential digital audio
workstations (Cubase and Logic), and long-time residence of new
music visionary György Ligeti.
SUMMER
SCHOOL
The conference will
also host a summer school on the topic of "Neurons and Networks"
from August 26 to 30, 2016 lead by international renowned
specialists and with a day dedicated to IRCAM technology.
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Call for Papers
We are now
soliciting submissions for oral and poster/demo presentations. We
encourage submissions examining core areas of Sound and Music
Computing, in particular:
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Real-time composition, improvisation and notation
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History and aesthetics of electronic media
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Social interaction in sound and music computing
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Room acoustics and spatial audio
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Virtual environments for music
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Music cognition and creativity
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New interfaces for musical _expression_
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Software / computer music languages
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Multi-modal perception and emotion
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Computer-based music analysis
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Instrument building and virtuosity in Computer Music
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Sonic interaction design
We also welcome
submissions on the following topics:
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Auditory displays and data sonification
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Computational musicology and mathematical music theory
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Computer environments for sound/music processing
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Digital signal processing
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High performance computing for audio
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Interactive performance systems
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Music and robotics
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Music information retrieval
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Sound and music for virtual reality and games
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Sound and Music computing in the processing and composition of
Soundscapes/Environmental Arts
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Sound and Music Computing in Education
Papers should be
between 4 and 8 pages, written in English and not previously
published. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Papers can be
submitted as oral or poster demonstrations, but the final decision
on the category will be made by the programme committee.
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Oral presentations: 8 pages maximum, 20 minutes for presentation
(15 minute talk followed by 5 minutes of Q&A)
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Poster presentations: 6 pages maximum
Submitted
papers must be submitted via the SMC2016 conference system (at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smc2016) and must
comply with the given templates. Upon acceptance, camera-ready
versions should be re-submitted within 14 days.
All accepted papers
will be included in the conference proceedings which will be
available on the conference website (http://smc2016.net) as an
electronic publication. Please note that per paper at least one of
the authors needs to register in order for the paper to be
presented and included in the proceedings.
BEST PAPER AWARD
In accordance with
the SMC tradition, we will award a prize for the best paper. The
prize will permit the author(s) to publish an extended version of
the paper in a subsequent issue of Computer Music Journal (MIT
Press).
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Call for Sonic Works
We also invite
submissions of music and sonic art works for presentation at the
festival. Hamburg has a long and ongoing tradition of improvised
music. In the spirit of this tradition we encourage submissions of
works exploring emerging trends such as comprovisation or
conduction.
The performance
venues will be at the HAW Finkenau campus (http://www.haw-hamburg.de/dmi.html)
and Kampnagel (http://www.kampnagel.de/en/home/).
Featured categories:
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Fixed scores & electronics
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Real-time composition/notation and animated scores
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Improvisation & electronics
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Electronics & performance art
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Fixed media
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Audiovisual installations
Works in all
categories are free to use video.
Available ensembles
and musicians (the complete instrumentation is available on the
conference website at http://quintetnet.hfmt-hamburg.de/SMC2016/?page_id=1314):
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TonArt, a Hamburg-based ensemble dedicated to improvised music in
existence since 1989. Instrumentation
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RADAR, a new music ensemble from the neighboring Hanseatic city of
Lübeck.
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Lin Chen, a Hamburg-based percussionist and performance artist.
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Carola Schaal, a Hamburg-based clarinetist and performance artist.
Music for other
instrumental resources will be considered, but composers will be
responsible for providing their own performers. Where possible,
modest financial help may be offered to facilitate this. Please
note that the author(s) need(s) to register in order for the work
to be presented during the festival.
Inquiries on
submissions and concerts should be directed to the music chair
Sascha Lino Lemke: musicchair@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Summer School
The SMC Summer
School will take place over five days from August 26 to 30, 2016.
It will give young researchers the opportunity to learn about some
of the core interdisciplinary topics and to share their own
experiences with other young researchers.
The motto is Neurons
and Networks, referring to the following topics:
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Brain-computer music interfaces
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Artificial neural networks for gesture recognition and complex
mapping
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Networked music performance
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Elaborate loudspeaker networks for wave-field synthesis and 3D
spatialization techniques
Applications must be
submitted via the SMC2016 conference system.
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Important Dates
Paper and music
submissions (deadline): April 15, 2016
Summer school
application (deadline): April 15, 2016
Notifications: June
1, 2016
Camera ready
submissions: June 15, 2016
Early registration:
June 15, 2016
SMC summer school:
August 26 - 30, 2016
SMC conference:
August 31 - September 3, 2016
General inquiries
should be directed to the conference chair Georg Hajdu: chair@xxxxxxxxxxx
-- ---------------------------------------- Federico Avanzini, Associate Professor CSC-Sound and Music Computing Group Dept. of Information Engineering University of Padova Via Gradenigo 6/A I-35131 Padova - ITALY Skype: federico.avanzini Tel: +39 049 827 7582 Fax: +39 049 827 7699 http://smc.dei.unipd.it http://www.dei.unipd.it/~avanzini ---------------------------------------- |