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We are happy to announce several doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships at RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion at the University of Oslo:

Vacancies - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion All RITMO researchers are co-located and work in a unique interdisciplinary constellation, with world-leading competence in musicology, psychology, and informatics.

SMC 2021 - Reconnecting Spaces - 1st CALL FOR PAPERS
The 18th Sound & Music Computing Conference (SMC 2021) will be a free online event taking place between the 29th of June and the 01st of July 2021.
Following last year’s online format, SMC 2021 welcomes contributions for online presentations examining all the core topics of the Sound and Music Computing field, including but not limited to:
- Algorithms and systems for music composition
- Auditory display and data sonification
- Automatic separation, recognition, classification of sound and music
- Automatic music generation/accompaniment systems
- Computational musicology and ethnomusicology
- Content processing of music audio signals
- Digital audio effects
- Hardware systems for sound and music computing
- History and aesthetics of electroacoustic music
- Humanities in sound and music computing
- Interactive performance systems
- Interfaces for sound and music
- Languages, protocols, and software environments for sound and music computing
- Models for sound analysis and synthesis
- Multimodality in sound and music computing
- Music information retrieval
- Music performance analysis and rendering
- Perception and cognition of sound and music
- Sonic interaction design
- Sound and music for accessibility and special needs
- Sound/music and the neurosciences
- Sound/music signal processing algorithms
- Technologies for the preservation, access, and modelling of musical heritage
This year's featured topic is “Reconnecting spaces”. The current pandemic situation has dramatically shown that the whole world is closely interconnected. At the same time, it has also demonstrated how fragile this system made up of human relations is, the same system having been abruptly interrupted and fragmented at all levels. This fragmentation still has important consequences for our community, made up of scientists working in groups distributed among several countries, and musicians, for whom reciprocal interaction is a constitutive element of their work. At the same time, we have witnessed a fast growth of connectivity, with the proliferation of online sharing tools and more generally the renewal of work logics for better or for worse.
What have we learned from this crisis? The accelerated development of network technologies can not only allow to make up for the lack of physical interaction, but it can even contribute to the establishment of new paradigms that combine real and virtual spaces. With this as the conference theme, SMC 2021 particularly welcomes contributions in:
- Networked performances
- Online audio sharing technologies
- Sound and music for augmented/virtual reality and games
- Soundscape documentation, preservation, and composition
- Spatial sound, reverberation, and virtual acoustics
- Virtual communities for sound and music collaboration
- Web Audio
Papers should be between 4 and 8 pages, written in English and not previously published. The paper submission must be in PDF and must conform to the conference template that will be made available (LaTeX and Office).
Paper abstract submission deadline (strict!): March 05, 2021.
Full paper submission deadline (strict!): March 12, 2021.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed and all accepted papers will be included in the conference Proceedings. In this edition all the contributions will be presented with the same format, and there will be no distinction between posters and oral presentations.
The Proceedings will have an ISBN and the electronic version will be available on the SMC website (http://smcnetwork.org/) and Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/communities/smc/). Please note that all accepted papers will be subject to a publication fee in order to be published in the Proceedings.
Due to the uncertainty caused by this pandemic we are investigating the possibility of setting up local hubs during the conference dates allowing for in-person meetings of participants. More information will be provided in the next months.
Please follow us at https://www.facebook.com/SMC2021Conference
The SMC 2021 Chairs
Davide Andrea Mauro ([email protected])
Simone Spagnol ([email protected])
Andrea Valle ([email protected])

SMC Sound and Music Computing Conference 2021 Welcome to the 18th Sound and Music Computing Conference!

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The Department of Musicology at The University of Oslo invites applications for a PhD Research Fellowship (SKO1017) in the field of Music Technology.
The successful candidate will work on an independent research project
in the field of music technology. Proposals within the area of new
technologies for music will be considered. We especially encourage
novel applications in areas such as networked music, artificial
intelligence, sound and music computing, music information retrieval,
experimental practices, or new interfaces for musical expression.
Proposals which engage with social and cultural issues such as race, gender, power hierarchies, agency and ownership are encouraged.
Application deadline 31st January 2021.
Full details are available at:

Doctoral Research Fellowship in Music Technology (195074) | University of Oslo Job title: Doctoral Research Fellowship in Music Technology (195074), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, January 31, 2021

Programme - virtual Digital Audio Effects 2020 (eDAFx 2020) Due to the exceptional circumstances, we are organising a virtual DAFx2020: the eDAFx2020 (Sept. 9-11, 2020). This will by no means replace the in-person conference, which is postponed until September 2021. Audiovisual presentations were submitted on a voluntary basis. However, we almost reached ful...

Following the previous successful editions of IEEE Virtual Reality Workshop - Sonic Interactions for Virtual Environments. With renewed enthusiasm, we are proud to announce that paper/poster/abstract submission deadlines for 2020 edition are available
In this SIVE edition, we are launching the call for "open VR testing scenarios". Check this out!

IEEE 5th VR Workshop on Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments (IEEE VR - SIVE 2020)
March 22 2020, Atlanta, US
http://ieeevr.org/2020/
http://sive.create.aau.dk

IEEEVR 2020

Congratulations to Tejaswinee Kelkar for successfully defending her PhD. First Nordicsmc PhD student!

https://www.hf.uio.no/imv/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/disputaser/2019/kelkar.html

Disputas: Melodisk kontur - hvorfor gestikulerer vi med hendene når vi synger? - Institutt for musikkvitenskap Master Tejaswinee Kelkar ved Institutt for musikkvitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: Computational Analysis of Melodic Contour and Body Movement.

Opening of the first Nordic SMC conference.

The final program of Nordic Smc and the interactive sonification workshop is online:

Nordic Sound and Music Computing Conference 2019 The 1st Nordic Sound & Music Computing Conference will take place in Stockholm, Sweden, 19-20 November 2019 and it will be organized by the Sound and Music Computing group at the Division of Media Technology and Interaction Design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in collaboration with the Royal....

NordicSMC is well represented at Danish Sound days:

Track 3 - Sound & Music Computing Back to Program Track 3 - Sound & Music Computing Introduction The Nordic Sound and Music Computing Network (NordicSMC) supported by Nordforsk brings together a group of internationally leading sound and music computing researchers from all five Nordic countries, from Aalborg University (AAU), Aalto...