SOUND: ART, SCIENCE, AND EXPERIENCE
12-17 June 2023
at KMH Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden
Organized by KMH Royal College of Music and KTH Royal Institute of Technology
The conference will be held in hybrid format and it will make use of Zoom for presentations and Slack for discussions.
The 2023 Sound & Music Computing Conference and Summer School will take place in Stockholm, Sweden, 12-17 June 2023 and it will be organized by research groups in the field of Sound and Music Computing and Composition at both KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Royal College of Music in Stockholm.
June 12-14: SMC Summer School 2023
Chair persons: Ricardo Atienza (Konstfack), Mattias Petersson (KMH)
June 14-15: SMAC 2023 - 5th Stockholm Music Acoustic Conference, presented as a track within SMC 2023.
Chair persons: Sara D’Amario (MDW), Anders Friberg (KTH) & Sten Ternström (KTH)
June 15-17: SMC Sound and Music Computing Conference 2023.
Chair persons: Roberto Bresin (KTH), Henrik Frisk (KMH) & Kjetil Falkenberg (KTH)
You are welcome to participate and submit contributions to both SMC 2023 and SMAC 2023.
Registration
Thanks to the support by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, KMH Royal College of Music, Nordic SMC Network, NAVET, KMA Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and the Italian Institute of Culture in Stockholm, we could keep the registration fees at a reasonable level. Registration costs include the conference dinner, all lunches and coffees. Please register at the following link: REGISTRATION FORM
Important dates
All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. Check your local time in AoE.
March
June 20th, 2023: Final updated versions of SMC 2023 and SMAC 2023 proceedings published
SMC Summer School 2023
The SMC 2023 Summer School will take place on June 12-14, 2023, prior to the SMC 2023 conference. Click here for the full program.
Anyone is welcome to apply to the SMC 2023 Summer School, but grad students with a high profile in the fields of engineering, audio technology, and digital arts will be preferred. The partyicipation at the SMC 2023 Summer School is FREE.
If requested by participants, we will release a certificate attesting 1.5 ECTS upon submission of a complementary written report about the project developed during the SMC Summer School.
Place: KMH Royal College of Music
Teachers: Ricardo Atienza (Konstfack), Maurizio Goina (KTH), Hans Lindetorp (KMH/KTH), Mattias Petersson (KMH)
If you want to participate, please complete the application form here. We will accept up to 24 participants (first come, first served basis).
June 9th, 2023: Summer School registration closes.
Programme
Concerts are live-streamed on YouTube @ https://youtube.com/@navetresearch.
Click here for the detailed final programme of both SMC 2023 and SMAC 2023.
SMC 2023: Music and Installation Programme
June 12-14, 2023
Sound and Music Computing Summer School 2023, including keynotes, sound walks with sound recordings in the old city (Gamla Stan), sound spatialization and sound processing with gesture sensors in the Little Hall/Lilla Salen at KMH Royal College of Music.
Place: KMH Royal College of Music
June 15, 2023, from 10:30 to 11:30
Free entrance at the Swedish Museum of Performing Arts for visiting the Music Section of the museum and interacting with the Sound Forest installation
Place: Scenkonstmuseet - Swedish Museum of Performing Arts
June 15, 2023, at 19:00
Conference dinner at restaurat TASTE, located in the KTH main campus.
Place: Taste - Malvinas väg 4, 114 28 Stockholm
June 15-17, 2023
Sound and Music Computing Conference 2023
Place: KMH Royal College of Music
June 14-15, 2023
Stockholm Music Acoustic Conference 2023
Place: KMH Royal College of Music
June 12-14, 2023
Satellite event (in Swedish): Musikforskning idag.
Place: KMA The Royal Swedish Academy of Music
June 15, 17 and 18, at 20h
Satellite event: The re|thread collective will perform a new audiovisual installation.
More information about location and registration is here: https://rethread.art/projects/syscalls.html
Keynote speakers
Confirmed keynote speakers at SMC 2023
Oliver Bown, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
Lise-Lotte Norelius, eam composer and performer of live-electronics and percussion, Stockholm, Sweden
Miller Puckette, University of California San Diego, USA. La Biennale di Venezia: 2023 Silver Lion to Miller Puckette.
Confirmed keynote speakers at SMAC 2023
Jim Woodhouse,University of Cambridge, UK
Filipa M.B. Lã, Department of Didactics, School Organization and Special Didactics
Faculty of Education, UNED, Madrid, Spain
Proceedings
Proceedings of SMC 2023 - Sound and Music Computing Conference.
Proceedings of SMAC 2023 - Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference.
The SMC 2023 Best Paper Award was assigned to the paper:
Post-mix vocoding and the making of All You Need Is Lunch
by Miller Puckette and Kerry Hagan
ABSTRACT. A six-minute audiovisual presentation, All You Need Is Lunch, was produced using a novel vocoding technique in which the spectrum of a sung word is altered from within a finished stereo mix, avoiding the need for blind source separation. In the piece, snippets of pop music tunes containing the word "love" are altered to say "lunch" instead, as in "where is lunch", "tainted lunch", "saving all my lunch for you", etc. To do this the utterance "lunch" is analyzed using an additive-synthesis model, and the musical recording to be altered is selectively filtered in specific, time-varying frequency ranges and left untouched elsewhere. The depth of alteration is frequency-dependent and time-varying. The target ("lunch") utterance must be time-morphed to fit optimally onto each individual source utterance ("love"). It proved particularly important, and often difficult, to either suppress or hide the sibilant portion of the "v" consonant. Since over 100 occurrences of the source word were altered, production tools were developed for editing and managing the many time-varying parameters that had to be chosen through critical listening and, ultimately, painstaking trial and error. This paper is proposed as a companion to our artistic submission of All You Need is Lunch.
Scientific Committee SMC 2023
Alexander Refsum Jensenius, University of OsloAndre Holzapfel, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Bob Sturm, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Daniel Overholt, Aalborg University
Davide Rocchesso, Universitá degli Studi di Palermo
Emma Frid, IRCAM, Paris and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Emilia Gómez, European Commission, Seville, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Ricardo Atienza, Konstfack - Institutionen för Konst
Federico Avanzini, Universitá degli Studi di Milano
Federico Fontana, Universitá degli Studi di Udine
Henrik Frisk, KMH Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Katharina Groß-Vogt, IEM Graz
Kjetil Falkenberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Mattias Sköld, KMH Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Olof Misgeld, KMH Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Roberto Bresin, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Romain Michon, INRIA, GRAME-CNCM, and Stanford University
Rumi Hiraga, Tsukuba University of Technology
Sandra Pauletto, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Stefania Serafin, Aalborg University
Torbjörn Gulz, KMH Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Vesa Välimäki, Aalto University
Artistic Committee SMC 2023
Gerhard Eckel, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, StockholmHenrik Frisk, KMH Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Ludvig Elblaus
Kim Hedås, KMH Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Carl Unander Scharin, Ingesund School of Music
Robert Höldrich, IEM Graz
Nguyen Thanh Thuy, KMH Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Juraj Kojš, University of Miami
Jan Schacher, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki
Åsa Stjerna
Åsa Unander-Scharin, Luleå University of Technology
Jenny Sunesson, SKH Stockholm University of the Arts
Sol Andersson
Stephanie Sherriff, CCRMA, Stanford
Scientific Committee SMAC 2023
Preliminary list of names. It will be continuously updated.Anders Askenfelt, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE
Sara D’Amario, Institut Wiener Klangstil, mdw Vienna, AT
Leonardo Fuks, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), BR
Werner Goebl, Institut Wiener Klangstil, mdw Vienna, AT
André Holzapfel, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE
Malte Kob, Hoschshule für Musik, Detmold, DE; and mdw Vienna, AT
Peter Pabon, Royal Conservatoire, den Haag, NL
Johan Sundberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE
Joe Wolfe, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AU
Partners
The Sound and Music Computing conference 2023 is organized by KTH Royal Institute of technology, and KMH Royal College of Music, in collaboration with Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design, SKH Stockholm University of the Arts, Swedish Museum of Performing Arts, and supported by the Nordic SMC Network, NAVET Centre for Research in Art, Technology and Design, NordForsk, KMA Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and the Italian Istitute of Culture in Stockholm.Location
Both SMC 2023 and SMAC 2023 are located at the main campus of KMH Royal College of Music in Stockholm.SMC Summer School, oral presentations and concerts will be in the KMH's concert halls.
Click here to find out how to get there and for an overview map of the building.
For informations about the city of Stockholm and a selection of what the city has to offer please visit the official guide to Stockholm.