Sound and Music Computing Conference 2009 – Call

Sound and Music Computing Conference 2009: Call for Music.

The 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) is glad to announce an open call for works. This year’s SMC will happen in Porto at Casa da Música, Porto’s most recent architectural landmark located in the new center of the city.

There will be five concerts at the conference that include a network performance. Three of the concerts will be at Casa da Música and the other two at a venue to be announced.

We particularly encourage submissions of works of electronic music that have a performance aspect to it, such as works for instrument(s) and electronic music, laptop performances, live electronic music, live coding, circuit bending, interactive installations, audio-visual performance, and interactive dance. 

The conference concert programme will be selected by curators (Evan Parker, Nicolas Collins, Pauline Oliveros and Robert Rowe) in coordination with the Music Chairs (Carlos Guedes and Pedro Rebelo). The conference will provide a professional ensemble with soloists in the following instruments: Flute, Clarinet, Saxophones, Double Bass, Piano and Percussion.  

All submissions must be made through an online system at http://smc2009.smcnetwork.org/. Please note there is a limit of 100MB per submission (please used compressed formats, e.g. mp3, ogg, mp4). If you wish to send larger files you should mail us a CD/DVDs to the following address:
SMC 09 C/O Carlos Guedes
INESC-Porto
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias 378
4200-465 Porto
Portugal


Call for Student works

The 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference is also glad to announce a call for student works. Undergraduate and Postgraduate students from all European Schools are encouraged to submit works, following the guidelines proposed in the main call for music. When submitting the works for the student call, you have to submit a proof of enrollment at a European School or University.

Important Dates for both submissions:
Submission deadline: April 17
Notification of acceptance: May 15

All questions should be addressed to Carlos Guedes cguedes[at]inescporto[dot]pt or to Pedro Rebelo p[dot]rebelo[at]qub[dot]ac[dot]uk.



Call for electroacoustic works – MTI @ De Montfort University

List members (apologies for cross posting)

Call for electroacoustic works
 
EARS II: The ElectroAcoustic Resource Site II
Music, Technology and Innovation Research Group @ De Montfort University
 
The EARS II project research and development group are seeking material for the latest phase of development of the EARS project – http://www.ears.dmu.ac.uk Currently our focus group is children in the 11-14 year old age group. This call for material concerns the development of the Genres and Categories index. To this end we are seeking material for use as listening examples; to exemplify particular genres and categories, and at the same time to be used as part of an aural training system intended to introduce students to electroacoustic music.
 
For further information about the project and submission guidelines, please visit http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~rjw/earsIIcall.html

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Dr. Rob Weale
CEPA Fellow – Music, Technology and Innovation
Faculty of Humanities
PACE Building
Room 1M.01
De Montfort University
Leicester, UK
LE1 9BH
 
tel: +44 (0)116 207 8131


QuteCsound 04.RC2

Hi all,

I’m happy to announce a new version of QuteCsound. You can get it here
(currently OS X only, Windows version will be announced soon):
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=227265&package_id=275156
http://qutecsound.sourceforge.net/

This version, though in name a new release candidate, actually has
major changes, both in performance, stability and functionality.
Please try it and report any issues you find. Upgrading is highly
recommended as this release fixes the nasty
save-while-running-and-I’ll-blank-your-file bug.

To use the code graph function, you need graphviz from graphviz.org.
This release also makes QuteCsound dependent on libsndfile to record
Csound output directly from QuteCsound (no more need for fout).

Here are the details:

Version 0.4RC2

New:
-When there are compilation errors, the editor goes to error line and
highlights it.
-New record button which can start/stop recording csound’s output to
file at any moment (without overwriting previous recordings)
-Code graph generator (you can now produce a graph of your Csound code
using View Code)
-Option in edit menu to change from invalue/outvalue to chnget/chnset
and viceversaGraph in the View Menu. Some things like if’s and labels
are not yet properly shown)
-Widgets with the same channel are now interconnected even when Csound
is not running
-New Scope widget which allows seeing Csound’s output. It should be
more efficient than using a graph widget with the display opcode.
Additionally, the Scope Widget can be frozen by clicking and holding
over it.
-New option to set default csd file.
-QuteCsound now builds on Solaris
-Keyboard shortcut for Save as…
-Groups fo widgets can now be selected dragging the mouse
-New examples in Example menu
-Changed Play to Run in menus
-Graph Widget can now be zoomed in/out in the preferences
-Graph widget now receives a value which sets the shown table. See
included example.

Fixed:
-Widget Panel hides when open and save file chooser opens, to prevent
the widget panel from obstructing the dialog
-Document tabs now display modified icon correctly when they are modified.
-Files can’t be opened (or saved as) if they are already open in QuteCsound
-Labels can now contain commas and other characters which were being stripped
-Added close button to find/replace dialog
-Variables containing ‘_’ are now highlighted properly
-Graph widget now displays properly the output of the dispfft and
display opcodes
-Graph Widgets now zoom properly (no more white graphs)
-Fixed crash when saving while running
-Several bug fixes should improve performance and stability

Internal changes:
-QuteCsound now requires libsndfile for the Record button. This
dependency can be removed in the src.pro file
-Removed support for chnget/chnset as it conflicts too much with the
internal model of QuteCsound

Enjoy!
Andrés