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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: Anders Friberg (KTH) & Sten Ternström (KTH)

June 15-17: SMC Sound and Music Computing Conference 2023.
Chair persons: Roberto Bresin (KTH) & Henrik Frisk (KMH)

You are welcome to participate and submit contributions to both SMC 2023 and SMAC 2023.

SMC 2023 Calls Overview

This call is also available here: https://smcnetwork.org/smc2023/#cfp  

SMC 2023 (Sound and Music Computing) is a multifaceted event around acoustics, music, and audio technology. It will take place in Stockholm (Sweden) on June 12-17, 2023 on the theme of “SOUND: ART, SCIENCE, AND EXPERIENCE”.  

Important dates

  • October 17th, 2022: SMC-23 web site is launched
  • October 29th, 2022: Calls for papers and music published
  • November 14th, 2022: Submission portal opens on EasyChair
  • February 1st, 2023 (strict!): Deadline for submitting an abstract and registering the paper/piece on the conference portal
  • February 8th, 2023 (strict!): Deadline for paper/piece submission
  • March 8th, 2023: Deadline for submitting reviews
  • March 21nd, 2023: Notification of acceptance
  • April 15th, 2023: Early-bird registration
  • April 15th, 2023: Camera-ready version due

SMC 2023: Call for papers

For the SMC 2023 call for papers (CFP), we want to go back to the formal definition of the SMC field, with some small updates, and avoid the traditional long list of topics used in CFPs which, being a list, can have limitations and ambiguities (we have created the above word cloud instead, which you can find in the attached PDF file and at the link above).

Sound and Music Computing (SMC) research approaches the whole sound and music communication chain from a multidisciplinary point of view. By combining scientific, technological and artistic methodologies it aims at understanding, modelling and generating sound and music through computational approaches.

The technological and computational aspect of sound and music communication chain covers all aspects of the relationship between sonic energy and meaningful information, both from sound to sense (as in musical content extraction or perception), and from sense to sound (as in music composition or sound synthesis), sense to sense (as in sound imagination) and sound to sound. Generally speaking this includes all types of sounds and human communication processes except speech.

SMC 2023: Call for music

SMC 2023 welcomes musical contributions that are related to the core topics in Sound and Music Computing research.

Concerts and performances during SMC 2023 will be programmed in one of the following five sites at the Royal college of Music (KMH). Live performances are encouraged. Each proposal should address either one of these five locations.
See the attached PDF for more detailed information, or visit this page: https://smcnetwork.org/smc2023/SMC2023_CFP_CFM.pdf

SMAC 2023: Call for papers

SMAC - Stockholm Music Acoustic Conference 2023 welcomes contributions in musical acoustics and closely related fields, such as

  • Instrument acoustics
  • Singing voice acoustics
  • Acoustics-based synthesis models
  • Music performance
  • Music acoustics in teaching and pedagogy


More information about SMC 2023 can be found here:  https://smcnetwork.org/smc2023/