23rd Sound and Music Computing Conference and Winter School
Programme

Programme

PAPER SESSIONS
 
DAY1 (November 5th)
Session 1
Artistic Practice, Sonification and Sound in Society
Interplay between sound, people, biology, history and artistic practice
 
  1. Musitopia: Designing Interactive Musical Environments for Health and Wellbeing | Raquel Lucena, Mario Ortega, Ariana Pereira and Rafael Ramírez
  2. Vigil 17: Experimental Depth Sonification System | Daniel Manz and Daniel Hearn
  3. Machina Inquieta – Restaging Ashby's Homeostat | Marco Doettlinger, Arthur Flexer, Patrik Lechner and Thomas Grill
  4. The MTU Laptop Ensemble (MTULE): Integrating Hybrid Granular-Markov Systems, Spectral-based Sonification and Gesture Analysis Research into Creative Practice-based Inquiry and Performance | Cárthach Ó Nuanáin, Eric Browne, Brian Sheehan, Aoife Claffey and Juan Francisco Martinez
  5. This Way Up: Evaluating Frequency–Elevation Mapping in Audio–Language Models | Vincent Lostanlen and Mathieu Lagrange
  6. MuSA Voice: An Intelligent Platform for Automated, Reflective Vocal Technique Analysis | Suvi Haeaerae, Isabelle Oktay and Rafael Ramírez-Meléndez
  7. BioKybérnēsis: Case Studies on Biomusic and Bioaesthetics in Contemporary Sound Performance | Μatt Rogerson, Penelope Bekiari, Lou Barnell and Courtney Askey
  8. Algorithm-Bending As Hacktivist Musicking: Dsp Fault Injection And Augmented Saxophone In The ERRO. Project | Alberto Barberis and Bera Romairone
  9. Rendering alternative recorded histories of music | Nick Collins and Andrew Brown
  10. Towards minimal loudness sound masking to enhance sound comfort in offices: an exploratory experiment | Clara Boukhemia, Mathieu Lagrange and Nicolas Misdariis
 
DAY1 (November 5th)
Session 2
Space, Networks, Audiences and Immersion
Interplay across performers, audiences and environments
 
  1. Ambisonics: Introducing an Accessible, Distributed Approach | Thomas Rushton, Romain Michon, Tanguy Risset, Clemens Wegener and Pierre Lecomte
  2. Ambiviz: A Python toolbox for Ambisonic audio and 360-degree video visualization | Jinyue Guo, Maham Riaz and Alexander Refsum Jensenius
  3. From SPRAWL to MESH: Networked Music Systems for Touring and Stage Integration | Henry Windish and Henrik von Coler
  4. Audience As Performer: A Smartphone Web-Application For Real-Time Sound Contribution | Davor Vincze and Maurice Oeser
  5. Exploring Methods for Measuring Audience Body Motion in Concert Halls | Hugh Alexander von Arnim, Finn Upham and Alexander Refsum Jensenius
  6. Organic Reflections: A Stochastic Framework For Real-Time Audiovisual Composition Across AR, VR and Projection | Deniz Caglarcan
  7. Xplosive Collision: Designing a Noise-Oriented Networked Music System Based on Dyadic, Interdependent Game Mechanics | Luca Morino, Francesco Ardan Dal Rì, Fabio Cifariello Ciardi and Nicola Conci
  8. From Spatialization to Spatial Structure: A Spatial Grammar for Electroacoustic Composition | Marcela Pavia
  9. Dynamic Game Audio Analysis In The Context Of Horror Games | Victor Schmaedecke, Genaro Costa, Claudio Carvilhe and Carlos Nascimento Silla Junior
  10. A Real-Time Procedural Music Generation System Based on Affective Content of Low-Level Video Features | Filippo Giabelli, Federico Avanzini and Giorgio Presti
 
 
DAY2 (November 6th)
Session 1
AI, Co-Creation and Intelligent Musical Interaction
Interplay between musicians and intelligent systems
 
  1. Strategies for Musical Entanglement - Shaping Co-Creative Interplay through Harmonic and Melodic Visualization of Intent in Somax2 | Marco Fiorini and Miles Okazaki
  2. Interactive Melody Generation and Robotic Saxophone Performance: The RoboSax Melody Slot Machine | Masatoshi Hamanaka and Gou Koutaki
  3. Curve2Melody: Sketch-Guided Melody Generation | Cristina Jorda i Custal, Tejaswinee Kelkar and Stefano Fasciani
  4. Toward Instruction-Guided Interactive Low-Latency Generation for Acoustic Music | Yinghao Ma and Hannes Gamper
  5. Style-Specific Accompaniment Generation Via Constrained Discrete Optimization | Stephanie Lew, Wee Kheng Leow and Kat R. Agres
  6. Beat Tracking for Real-Time Human-Computer Live Improvisation | Joris Monnet, Michael Wollny and Martin Rohrmeier
  7. A Critical Data Case Study In Human-Machine Co-Creation Of Electro-Acoustic Music | Arthur Flexer
  8. Neuralyzer: An AI Chatbot in Partiels | Pierre Guillot
  9. Conversing for Coexistence | Patrik Lechner, Marco Döttlinger and Thomas Grill
  10. An Exploratory Study on the Effects of AI Song Generation on Agency, Authenticity, Creativity and Connectedness in Musicians and Nonmusicians | Dana Swarbrick and Suvi Saarikallio
 
DAY2 (November 6th)
Session 2
Musical Structure, Analysis and Computational Musicology
Interplay between musical knowledge and machine learning
 
  1. Musical Pattern Discovery At Regular Time Intervals Through Mathematical Morphology: An Application To Metric Structure Analysis | Mathys Daniel, Paul Lascabettes, Moreno Andreatta and Isabelle Bloch
  2. Diachronic Modeling of Tonal Coherence on the Tonnetz Across Classical and Popular Repertoires | Weilun Xu, Edward Hall and Martin Rohrmeier
  3. Mining Contrast Patterns In Jazz Guitar Solos | Arne Eigenfeldt and Darrell Conklin
  4. Music Similarity Estimation from Jukebox Embeddings | Johannes Grafinger, Gerhard Widmer and Jan Schlüter
  5. Unsupervised Evaluation of Deep Audio Embeddings for Music Structure Analysis | Axel Marmoret
  6. Adapting Deep Learning-based Meter Tracking to Carnatic Music | Satyajeet Prabhu, Thomas Nuttall, Vivek Vijayan and Martín Rocamora
  7. Score-Informed Transformer for Refining MIDI Velocity in Automatic Piano Transcription | Zhanhong He, Roberto Togneri and David Huang
  8. Reharmonization Grammar Rules in Jazz Improvisation | George Konstandelakis and Christina Anagnostopoulou
  9. A Computational Model for Predicting Perceived Tension in Electronic Dance Music Buildups | Stefanos Biliousis and Sofia Dahl
  10. BMdataset: A Musicologically Curated LilyPond Dataset | Matteo Spanio, Ilay Guler and Antonio Rodà
 
DAY3 (November 7th)
Session 1
Audio Processing, Synthesis and Computational Sound
Interplay between algorithms and sound
 
  1. Differentiable Feedback Delay Networks via Closed-Form Time-Domain Backpropagation | Antoine Salmona and Rémi Mignot
  2. Multi-Scale Latent Trajectory Modelling For Audio Texture Synthesis | Aaron Dees, Susan McKeever and Seán O'Leary
  3. From Music Audio to Expressive Dynamics Control: Transcribing MIDI CC1 from Real Music Performances via Differentiable Analysis-by-Synthesis | Yifan Xie and Mathieu Barthet
  4. Predicting Timbre Traits for Interpretable Assessment of Musical Sound Synthesizers | Théo Chasle Cauchy, Modan Tailleur, Lindsey Reymore, Fanny Roche and Mathieu Lagrange
  5. An Evolutionary Algorithm for Automatic Guitar Amplifier Modeling | Benjamin Quiédeville, Tanguy Risset, Romain Michon and Stéphane Letz
  6. Exploring Latent Space Audio Generation for Data Sonification | Ernst Stötzner and Andreas Nürnberger
  7. Fifty Shades of Compression | Diemo Schwarz, Rémi Mignot, Cöme Peladeau, Haoran Sun, Étienne Démoulin, Geoffroy Peeters, Hichem Maaref and Dominique Fourer
  8. Zero-Delay Feedback for FM Cross-Modulation | Luc Döbereiner and Dario Sanfilippo
  9. An Open Source Solution For Live Computation And Broadcasting Of Sound Descriptors | Valerio Orlandini
  10. Hierarchical Retrieval-Augmented Generation For Multimodal Music Question–Answering Using Vector-Based Semantic Retrieval | Anna-Maria Christodoulou, Kyrre Glette and Alexander Refsum Jensenius
 
DAY3 (November 7th)
Session 2
Performance, Instruments and Embodied Interaction
Interplay between performers, instruments and interfaces
 
  1. Chelys Sonorum: A Quasi-Autonomous Guitar | Guglielmo Diana
  2. InvisiblePiano: Enabling Gesture-Based Right-Hand Monophonic Piano Performance using a Smartphone Camera via Statistical Machine Translation | Chihiro Mita, Kento Watanabe, Takayuki Nakatsuka, Tomoyasu Nakano, Masataka Goto and Takayuki Itoh
  3. ESP-NOW MIDI Protocol and Enomik (ESP-NOW MIDI Kit): Wired and Wireless MIDI Devices With an Optional Code-Free Workflow | Thomas Geissl 
  4. A Multi-Modal Adaptive Microtuning Architecture: Bridging MTS, MPE and MIDI 2.0 For Struck-String Just Intonation | Rui Su, Joseph Timoney and Damián Keller
  5. TidalBind: Towards Interactive Real-Time Control And Declarative Mapping In Live Coding | Gordan Kreković and Antonio Pošćić
  6. Programming A Music Performance Instrument For A Wandering Mind And Clumsy Hands | Jean-Philippe Drecourt
  7. Humanoid Musical Robots as Experimental Interfaces for Music-Evoked Emotion | Vincent Cheung and Jia-Yeu Lin
  8. Effect-Time Cue Scheduling For Distributed Gaze-Based Musical Performance | Doohyun Jung
  9. Challenges for Eye-Tracking in Naturalistic Music-Reading Setups: A Pilot Study | Charlotte Schneider
  10. Inclusive Performative Ecosystems: Ai, BCI and Biofeedback For Accessible Musical Interaction | Sara Montagni
 
MUSIC SESSIONS
 
DAY1 (November 5th)
CONCERT – KONTEJNER
Laptop Ensemble, Violin and Guitar Solos, Feedback Systems and Fixed Media
Interplay between instruments and interfaces
 
  1. Fractures - for laptop ensemble | Cárthach Ó Nuanáin, Eric Browne, Brian Sheehan, Aoife Claffey and Juan Francisco Martinez
  2. Magma – for violin and electronics | Joao Pedro Oliveira
  3. /nin/ - for violin and electronics | Dimitris Papageorgiou
  4. Metafonie 7 – for stereo tape | Francesco Galante
  5. Estuary 2 – for stereo tape | Irving Kinnersley
  6. Solo for Computer & Feedback | Remmy Canedo
  7. Extemporización Espacial " La guitarra como Dispositivo de Espacialización – for electric guitar and multichannel audio | Natán Ide
 
DAY2 (November 6th)
CONCERT – MUSIC ACADEMY ZAGREB
Percussion Performances, Multichannel Live Electronics, and Video
Interplay between human gesture and system response
 
  1. Weip – for percussion and EJ | Iván Ferrer-Orozco
  2. Fracture and Flow – for percussion and live electronics | Steven Lewis
  3. Mixobloodify – for audiovisual fixed media | Bowen Wu
  4. Matters 11 – for 8-channel fixed media | Daniel Mayer
  5. Eigenform – for 8-channel live electronics | Nicola Casetta
  6. TRANSITIONS – for 8-channel live electronics | Javier Alejandro Garavaglia
 
 
DAY2 (November 6th)
INSTALLATIONS – MUSIC ACADEMY ZAGREB
Multichannel Immersive Installation and Context-Aware Sound Installation
Interplay between sound and its environment
 
  1. Living Room Pieces – generative sound installation | Michael Schumacher
  2. Echobjects – sound installation with kinetic objects | Philippe Kocher and Daniel Bisig
 
DAY3 (November 7th)
CONCERT – KONTEJNER
Analogue and Augmented Instrumental Performances, Interactive Dance and Electronics Duo
Interplay between shifting forms of agency
 
  1. Manus Tremens – for for accelerometer-controlled vibration motors, amplified toy harp and live sound processing | Steven Kemper
  2. Chant – for violoncello and live electronics | Yoonjae Choi
  3. rain contained, rain contains… – for fixed media | Wei Yang 
  4. You Say You Love Your Children Above All Else – for a dancer and live electronics | Andreas Bergsland, Robert Wechsler, Camille Jackson and Amie-Blaire Chartier
  5. A Bit Unwise – for a live electronics duo | Dario Sanfilippo, Luc Döbereiner
  6. [air>coded] – for saxophone and live electronics | Grgur Savić
  7. Echo from the Ming Dynasty – for pipa and live electronics | Shuyu Lin
  8. Au Creux Des Dents – for fixed media | Nicola Cappelletti
  9. Reconnections: Emulation, Aesthetics & The Modular Synthesiser – for modular synthesiser | Neil O Connor