Georg Hajdu

Sound and Music Computing Conference and Summer School 2016

Wednesday, August 26 to Saturday, September 3, 2016.

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, Trevor Pinch and Cat Hope. 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 showcasing music by Chowning. The opening day of the conference will showcase 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.

The conference will also host a summer school on the topic of Neurons and Networks from August 26 to 30, 2016.

We are now soliciting submissions for oral and poster/demo presentations. We encourage submissions examining core areas of Sound and Music Computing, in particular:

    • Real-time composition, improvisation and notation

    • History and aesthetics of electronic media

    • Social interaction in sound and music computing

    • Room acoustics and spatial audio

    • Virtual environments for music

    • Music cognition and creativity

    • New interfaces for musical expression

    • Software / computer music languages

    • Multi-modal perception and emotion

    • Computer-based music analysis

    • Instrument building and virtuosity in Computer Music

We also welcome submissions on the following topics:

    • Auditory displays and data sonification

    • Computational musicology and mathematical music theory

    • Computer environments for sound/music processing

    • High performance computing for audio

    • Interactive performance systems

    • Sound and music for virtual reality and games

    • Sound and Music computing in the processing and composition of Soundscapes/Environmental Arts

    • 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.

    • Oral presentations: 8 pages maximum, 20 minutes for presentation (15 minute talk followed by 5 minutes of Q&A)

    • Poster presentations: 6 pages maximum

Submitted papers must be submitted via the SMC2016 conference system (at 

 and must comply with the given templates. The conference system will open on January 1st, 2016. 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 (

 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.

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).

Inquiries should be directed to the paper chair Rolf Grossmann: paperchair@smc2016.net

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 (

    • Real-time composition/notation and animated scores

    • Electronics & performance art

Works in all categories are free to use video.

    • TonArt, a Hamburg-based ensemble dedicated to improvised music in existence since 1989. Instrumentation (the complete instrumentation is available on the conference website at 

    • RADAR, a new music ensemble from the neighboring Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Instrumentation: vln, vc, clar, acc, piano, perc, double bass

    • Lin Chen, a Hamburg-based percussionist and performance artist.

    • 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.

The conference system will open on January 1st, 2016.

Inquiries on submissions and concerts should be directed to the music chair Sascha Lino Lemke: musicchair@smc2016.net

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:

    • Brain-computer music interfaces

    • Artificial neural networks for gesture recognition and complex mapping

    • Elaborate loudspeaker networks for wave-field synthesis and 3D spatialization techniques

Applications must be submitted via the SMC2016 conference system. The conference system will open on January 1st, 2016.

Inquiries about the summer school should be directed to Xiao Fu: summerschool@smc2016.net

Conference system accessible: January 1, 2016

Paper and music submissions (deadline): April 15, 2016

Summer school application (deadline): April 15, 2016

SMC conference: August 31 - September 3, 2016

General inquiries should be directed to the conference chair Georg Hajdu: chair@smc2016.net

Hamburg, Germany
Wednesday, August 26 to Saturday, September 3, 2016.
http://smc2016.net

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. 

	• Real-time composition, improvisation and notation

	• History and aesthetics of electronic media

	• Social interaction in sound and music computing

	• New interfaces for musical expression

	• Instrument building and virtuosity in Computer Music

	• Auditory displays and data sonification

	• Computational musicology and mathematical music theory

	• Computer environments for sound/music processing

	• High performance computing for audio

	• Sound and music for virtual reality and games

	• Sound and Music computing in the processing and composition of Soundscapes/Environmental Arts

	• 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. 

	• Oral presentations: 8 pages maximum, 20 minutes for presentation (15 minute talk followed by 5 minutes of Q&A)

	• Poster presentations: 6 pages maximum

Submitted papers must be submitted via the SMC2016 conference system (at http://smc2016.net) and must comply with the given templates. The conference system will open on January 1st, 2016. 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.

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/). 

	• Real-time composition/notation and animated scores

Works in all categories are free to use video. 

	• TonArt, a Hamburg-based ensemble dedicated to improvised music in existence since 1989. Instrumentation (the complete instrumentation is available on the conference website at http://smc2016.net)

	• RADAR, a new music ensemble from the neighboring Hanseatic city of Lübeck. 

	• Lin Chen, a Hamburg-based percussionist and performance artist.

	• 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.

The conference system will open on January 1st, 2016. 

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: 

	• Artificial neural networks for gesture recognition and complex mapping

	• Elaborate loudspeaker networks for wave-field synthesis and 3D spatialization techniques

Applications must be submitted via the SMC2016 conference system. The conference system will open on January 1st, 2016. 

SMC conference: August 31 - September 3, 2016 

General inquiries should be directed to the conference chair Georg Hajdu: chair@smc2016.net


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