Sound and Music Computing -- Music and Interaction

Dear colleagues,

Sound and Music Computing is a highly multidisciplinary research field. It combines scientific, technological, and artistic methods to produce, model, and understand audio and sonic arts with the help of computers. Sound and music computing borrows methods from computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, musicology, psychology, etc.

In this Special Issue, we aim for papers covering a wide selection of topics related to acoustics, psychoacoustics, music, technology for music, audio analysis, musicology, sonification, music games, machine learning, serious games, immersive audio, sound synthesis, etc. Therefore, the following topics will be considered:

• Acoustics and psychoacoustics;
• AI and music performance;
• Analysis/synthesis of the singing voice;
• Applications in audio and music;
• Architectural acoustics modeling and auralization;
• Assistive technologies;
• Audio and music for AR/VR;
• Audio and music for games;
• Audio interactions;
• Audio recognition and bird-singing;
• Auditory display;
• Automatic music generation/accompaniment systems;
• Bioacoustic modeling;
• Biomusic and sound installations;
• Computational archeomusicology;
• Computational musicology;
• Computational ethnomusicology;
• Computational ornithomusicology;
• Computer-aided real time composition;
• Computer music software and programming languages;
• Data sonification;
• Digital signal processing;
• Digital systems of tuning;
• Ethics of sound and new technologies;
• Gesture, motion, and music;
• History and aesthetics of electroacoustic music;
• Immersive audio/soundscape environments;
• Interaction and improvisation;
• Interactive environments for voice training;
• Interactive performance systems;
• Jazz performance and machine learning;
• Mathematical music theory;
• Music and robotics;
• Music games and music for games;
• Music information retrieval;
• Music technology in education;
• Music therapy and technology for special needs;
• New interfaces for musical expression;
• New musical instruments;
• Perception and cognition of sound and music;
• Recording and mastering automation techniques;
• Sonification;
• Sound/music and the neurosciences;
• Spatial sound and spatialization techniques;
• Physical models for sound synthesis;
• VR applications and technologies for sound and music.

Submissions are invited for both original research and review articles. Additionally, invited papers based on excellent contributions to the 2019 Sound and Music Computing Conference SMC-19 will be included. We hope that this collection of papers will serve as an inspiration for those interested in sound and music computing.

Prof. Dr. Stefania Serafin
Prof. Dr. Federico Avanzini
Prof. Dr. Isabel Barbancho
Prof. Dr. Lorenzo J. Tardón
Guest Editors

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