SMAC 2013 welcomes contributions in musical acoustics and closely related fields, such as

• Instrument acoustics

• Singing voice

• Physics-based modelling

• 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 (limited to20 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)