The SMC15 Local Organizing Committee would like to welcome you to the 12th Sound and Music Computing Conference hosted here in Maynooth, Ireland. Céad Míle Fáilte!

SMC15 has been organised by the Music Technology Group in the Departments of Music and Computer Science at Maynooth University. We are pleased to announce that the 12th Sound and Music Computing Conference (|SMC 2015) will take place in Maynooth, Ireland, July 25 – Aug 1, 2015. The Summer School will take place from Saturday July 25th until Wednesday July 29th and the SMC Conference will take place from Thursday 30th July to August 1st.

SMC-15 Call For Papers

The SMC Conference will take place between Thursday 30th July to August 1st. We are now inviting papers for oral and poster/demo presentations. We are accepting submissions examining all the core topics of the Sound and Music Computing field, and in particular matching this year’s topic of High Performance Sound and Music Computing.

Auditory displays and data sonification
Computational musicology and Mathematical Music Theory
Computer environments for sound/music processing
Content processing of music audio signals
Digital audio effects
High Performance Computing for Audio
Interactive performance systems
Interfaces for sound and music
Models for sound analysis and synthesis
Multimodality in sound and music computing
Music and robotics
Music information retrieval
Music performance analysis and rendering
Perception and cognition of sound and music
Social interaction in sound and music computing
Sonic interaction design
Sound and music for VR and games
Sound/music and the neurosciences
Sound/music signal processing algorithms
Spatial audio
Papers should be between 4 and 8 pages long. All submissions will be fully peer-reviewed. Papers can be submitted as oral or poster/demo, but the final decision on the category will be made by the Programme Committee.
Oral presentations: 8 pages maximum, 20 minutes for presentation (15 minutes talk followed by 5 minutes Q&A)
Poster presentations: 6 pages maximum
Submitted papers must be camera-ready and conform to format specified in the following templates:

Latex Templates

Word Templates

The papers can be submitted using the through the Easy Chair SMC 2015 web upload system.

Important dates:

Full- Paper Submission Deadline: Sunday 14th April 2015
Acceptance Notification to Authors:
Friday 1stt May 2015
Camera-ready Paper due:
Monday 15th June, 2015

In case of any further questions on paper submission, please contact: jtimoney@cs.nuim.ie

Best wishes
Joseph Timoney (Conference and Papers Chair)
Tom Lysaght (Communications and Events Chair)