Dear Colleagues,
Please see below the call for submissions for the upcoming SMC 2026.
Best,
Ico
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Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Director, Kinetic Immersion and Extended Reality Lab
Professor, Media Arts and Production
Media School
Indiana University
+1 812.856.0193
ibukvic(a)iu.edu
ico.bukvic.net
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers and Music is now open for the Sound and Music Computing Conference 2026 (SMC26), taking place in Zagreb, Croatia, as part of the Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ).
Works can be submitted:
EasyChair Submission Portal<https://easychair.org/account2/signin_timeout?l=3112656229206091089>
Deadline: March 13, 2026 (for both paper and music submissions)
This edition's theme, INTERPLAY, will explore the evolving relationships between humans, machines, and sonic environments, and how these dynamic exchanges influence contemporary artistic and scientific practices.
SMC26 will include:
* A 3-day scientific conference with keynote lectures, paper sessions, concerts, and installations (November 5–7, 2026)
* A 3-day winter school (November 2–4, 2026), designed as a space for students, researchers, and artists to connect, collaborate, and exchange ideas ahead of the main event.
General information:
https://smc26.mbz.hr/en/about/smc26
Submission guidelines and details:
https://smc26.mbz.hr/en/submissions
We would be truly grateful if you could share this announcement within your network and with anyone who might be interested in submitting.
We look forward to receiving your proposals and welcoming you to Zagreb in 2026.
Wishing you a joyful and restful holiday season!
Kind regards,
Dr. Davor Vincze
Conference Chair, SMC26
Artistic Co-Director of MBZ
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers and Music is now open for the Sound and Music Computing Conference 2026 (SMC26), taking place in Zagreb, Croatia, as part of the Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ).
Works can be submitted:
EasyChair Submission Portal<https://easychair.org/account2/signin_timeout?l=3112656229206091089>
Deadline: March 13, 2026 (for both paper and music submissions)
This edition's theme, INTERPLAY, will explore the evolving relationships between humans, machines, and sonic environments, and how these dynamic exchanges influence contemporary artistic and scientific practices.
SMC26 will include:
* A 3-day scientific conference with keynote lectures, paper sessions, concerts, and installations (November 5-7, 2026)
* A 3-day winter school (November? 2-4, 2026), designed as a space for students, researchers, and artists to connect, collaborate, and exchange ideas ahead of the main event.
General information:
https://smc26.mbz.hr/en/about/smc26
Submission guidelines and details:
https://smc26.mbz.hr/en/submissions
We would be truly grateful if you could share this announcement within your network and with anyone who might be interested in submitting.
We look forward to receiving your proposals and welcoming you to Zagreb in 2026.
Wishing you a joyful and restful holiday season!
Kind regards,
Dr. Davor Vincze
Conference Chair, SMC26
Artistic Co-Director of MBZ??
Hi, after a test phase with Windows errors, it seems we solved the windows
compilation issues and here's the update I'm wrapping up for the PdMAXCon
in a few days! I just have to ship this, but I had a new [streamin~] and
[streamout~] objects for streaming and I'm leaving it out for now cause the
build for windows is still failing. Hold on for that. Note that older ELSE
versions are not working on Pd 0.56. This one requires 0.56-1!
My last update aimed at a PlugData update but that didn't happen yet,
though there's a PlugData 0.9-2 test release, based on 0.55-2. This new
ELSE update will hopefully come soon right after at PlugData 0.9.3, or
maybe even a newer update. I was hoping to better coordinate releases but
it's not happening :)
There's a lot of new stuff, but I'm mainly focusing on my MERDA modules,
which I'll show at PdMAXCon. They're coming out fancy with lots of stuff
and details I can't get into. There's lots of eye candy, like Implementing
a new mechanism for minimizing and maximizing the GUI or opening in a new
window. Added "tab" navigation for most knobs in the modules. This is just
the tip of the iceberg as there's lots of work to support this, so I made
several changes and updates to [knob] and [button]. The [knob] object also
gained several features and it became a feature-creep monster. Now I'm also
including mouse wheel scrolling, for one thing.
There's a new "Super Saw/Square" oscillator (a sum of 7 oscillators based
on JP-8000) abstraction object that also became a MERDA module. I wanna
highlight a new [mix~] object made for it that makes convenient mixing and
panning MC connections. There's also a cool [arpeggiator] abstraction, in
the next release I hope I'll have a new MERDA module with that included.
This is the main deal! There are 15 new objects, I'd like to also mention
mid/side encoding and stereo widening, and another one for envelope
following. Total number of objects now is 587! The tutorial now has 561
examples and an expanded subchapter about stereo imaging and improvements
to envelope following.
It's up in deken, let me know if something is wrong...
There are of course many many other numerous changes and fixes. Detailed
changelog in https://github.com/porres/pd-else/releases/tag/v.1.0-rc14
As of now, I started being more careful with breaking changes. I'm still
allowing old patches to run, but telling people to adapt to new stuff. For
instance, I had a [del~ in] and [del~ out] object now split into 2
([del.in~]/[del.out~])
thanks to a new functionality in Pd 0.56-0, but you can still call the old
[del~] object (for now). Like I've been saying, I'm just waiting for
PlugData 1.0 to call this a final release as well.
cheers
Alex
Dear all,
The application period for the Sound in New Media Master of Arts major, as part of the Art and Media Master’s programme, opened today! You can apply until 2 January 2026 at 3:00 PM (GMT+2), don’t miss this!!
We offer project-oriented course modules that combine research and practice with a hands-on, minds-on approach, including courses such as Introduction to Sound Design and Music, Sound and Music Computing, Composing with Digital Musical Instruments, Gender Issues in Sound Studies, Deep Learning of Audio, Procedural Audio, Game Audio, Experimental Music and many others.
Students additionally have the opportunity to participate in courses offered in other majors within the Department of Art and Media, as well as in other schools at Aalto University, such as the Acoustics and Audio Technology MSc major.
--- more about Sound in New Media, Master of Arts (Art and Media) Aalto University School of ARTS ---
https://www.aalto.fi/en/study-options/sound-in-new-media-master-of-arts-art…
-- How to apply --
https://www.aalto.fi/en/study-at-aalto/apply-to-masters-programmes
Best,
Koray
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M.Koray Tahiroğlu
Department of Art and Media
Aalto University
School of ARTS
http://dmi.aalto.fi/koraytahiroglu/