Proceedings
SMC-17 paper proceedings are now available. Click here to download a single PDF file with all papers (26.3 MB). Individual papers can be found below.

Session 1: Music performance analysis an rendering

Exploring Sound-Motion Textures in Drum Set Performance
Rolf Inge Godøy, Minho Song, Sofia Dahl

Jazz Piano Trio Synthesizing System Based on HMM and DNN
Takeshi Hori, Kazuyuki Nakamura, Shigeki Sagayama

Audio-Visual Source Association for String Ensembles through Multi-Modal Vibrato Analysis
Bochen Li, Chenliang Xu, Zhiyao Duan

Investigations on Stage Acoustic Preferences of Solo Trumpet Players using Virtual Acoustics
Sebastià V. Amengual Garí, Malte Kob, Tapio Lokki


Poster Session

The design of a lightweight DSP programming library
Victor Lazzarini

Towards the internet of musical things
Luca Turchet, Carlo Fischione, Mathieu Barthet

Environment-Mediated Coupling of Autonomous Sound-Generating Systems in Live Performance: An Overview of the Machine Milieu Project
Dario Sanfilippo, Agostino Di Scipio

Design Implications for Technology-Mediated Audience Participation in Live Music
Oliver Hödl, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Fares Kayali, Simon Holland

Automatic Arranging Musical Score for Piano using Important Musical Elements
Hirofumi Takamori, Haruki Sato, Takayuki Nakatsuka, Shigeo Morishima

FFT-based Dynamic Range Compression
Leo McCormack, Vesa Välimäki

A Sonification Interface Unifying Real-Time and Offline Processing
Hanns Holger Rutz, Robert Höldrich

QUALIA: A Software for Guided Meta-Improvisation Performance
Manuel Brásio, Filipe Lopes, Gilberto Bernardes, Rui Penha

Interactive Painting Sonification Using a Sensor-Equipped Runway
Eduardo Micheloni, Marcella Mandanici, Antonio Rodà, Sergio Canazza

Interactive Soundscapes: Developing a Physical Space Augmented through Dynamic Sound Rendering and Granular Synthesis
Matteo Lionello, Marcella Mandanici, Sergio Canazza, Edoardo Micheloni

Learning to Play the Guitar at the Age of Interactive and Collaborative Web Technologies
Anne-Marie Burns, Sébastien Bel, Caroline Traube

Key Inference from Irish Traditional Music Scores and Recordings
Pierre Beauguitte, Bryan Duggan, John D. Kelleher

Ferin Martino’s Tour: Lessons from Adapting the Same Algorithmic Art Installation to Different Venues and Platforms
Jeffrey M. Morris

Exploring Melody and Motion Features in “Sound-Tracings”
Tejaswinee Kelkar, Alexander Refsum Jensenius

Troop: A Collaborative Tool for Live Coding
Ryan Kirkbride

An Adaptive Karaoke System that Plays Accompaniment Parts of Music Audio Signals Synchronously with Users' Singing Voices
Yusuke Wada, Yoshiaki Bando, Eita Nakamura, Katsutoshi Itoyama, Kazuyoshi Yoshii

Experimental Assessment of Descriptive Statistics and Adaptive Methodologies for Threshold Establishment in Onset Selection Functions
Jose J. Valero-Mas, José M. Iñesta

Robinflock: a Polyphonic Algorithmic Composer for Interactive Scenarios with Children
Raul Masu, Andrea Conci, Cristina Core, Antonella de Angeli, Fabio Morreale

Technology-Assisted Performance of Polytemporal Music
Philippe Kocher

Investigating Spatial Music Qualia through Tissue Conduction
Peter Lennox, Ian McKenzie


Session 2: Social interaction

Exploring Social Mobile Music with Tiny Touch-Screen Performances
Charles P. Martin, Jim Torresen

Does Singing a Low-Pitch Tone Make You Look Angrier?
Peter Ahrendt, Christian C. Bach, Sofia Dahl

Monitoring and Supporting Engagement in Skilled Tasks: From Creative Musical Activity to Psychological Wellbeing
Juan Carlos Vasquez, Koray Tahiroğlu, Niklas Pöllönen, Johan Kildal, Teemu Ahmaniemi

The Musical Influence on People's Micromotion when Standing Still in Groups
Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Agata Zelechowska, Victor Gonzalez Sanchez

SECCIMA: Singing and Ear Training for Children with Cochlear Implants via a Mobile Application
Zhiyan Duan, Chitralekha Gupta, Graham Percival, David Grunberg and Ye Wang


Session 3: Music information retrieval

Stacked Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks for Music Emotion Recognition
Miroslav Malik, Sharath Adavanne, Konstantinos Drossos, Tuomas Virtanen, Dasa Ticha, Roman Jarina

Validating Attach Phase Descriptors Obtained by the Timbre Toolbox and MIRtoolbox
Kristian Nymoen, Anne Danielsen, Justin London
Errata (Published Dec. 18, 2017)

Sample-Level Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Music Auto-Tagging Using Raw Waveforms
Jongpil Lee, Jiyoung Park, Keunhyoung Luke Kim, Juhan Nam

Generating Data to Train Convolutional Neural Networks for Classical Music Source Separation
Marius Miron, Jordi Janer, Emilia Gómez


Session 4: Spatial sound and sonification

Evaluation of an Acoustic Interface for Tremor Analysis
Marian Weger, David Pirrò, Robert Höldrich

An Exploratory Study on the Effect of Auditory Feedback on Gaze Behavior in a Virtual Throwing Task with and without Haptic Feedback
Emma Frid, Roberto Bresin, Eva-Lotta Sallnäs Pysander, Jonas Moll

Auralization in Space and in Rooms of Arbitrary D Dimensions
Felipe Orduña-Bustamante

Auditory, Visual and Somatosensory Localization of Piano Tones: a Preliminary Study
Federico Fontana, Debora Scappin, Federico Avanzini, Mattia Bernardi, Devid Bianco, Giorgio Klauer

SONIC GREENHOUSE - Considerations on a Large-Scale Audio-Architectural Installation
Otso Lähdeoja, Josué Moreno


Session 5: Computer music languages and software

The CSOUND Plugin Opcode Framework
Victor Lazzarini

Versioning and Annotation Support for Collaborative Mapping Design
Johnty Wang, Joseph Malloch, Stéphane Huot, Fanny Chevalier, Marcelo Wanderley

Tools for Annotatiing Musical Measures in Digital Music Editions
Yevgen Mexin, Aristotelis Hadjakos, Axel Berndt, Simon Waloschek, Anastasia Wawilow, Gerd Szwillus

Renotation of Optical Music Recognition Data
Liang Chen, Christopher Raphael

WALLACE: Composing Music for Variable Reverberation
Filipe Lopes


Session 6: Analysis, synthesis and modification of sound

Real-Time Physical Model for Synthesis of Sword Sounds
Rod Selfridge, David Moffat, Joshua D. Reiss

Electronic Hearing Protection for Musicians
Robert Albrecht, Jussi Jaatinen, Tapio Lokki

Virtual Analog Simulation and Extensions of Plate Reverberation
Silvin Willemsen, Stefania Serafin, Jesper Rindom Jensen

The Effectiveness of Two Audiovisual Mappings to Control a Concatenative Synthesiser
Augoustinos Tsiros, Grégory Leplâtre

Extraction, Mapping, and Evaluation of Expressive Acoustic Features for Adaptive Digital Audio Effects
Jonas Holfelt, Gergely Csapo, Nikolaj Andersson, Sohejl Zabetian, Michael Castanieto, Daniel Overholt, Sofia Dahl, Cumhur Erkut

Virtual Analog Model of the Lockhart Wavefolder
Fabián Esqueda, Henri Pöntynen, Julian D. Parker, Stefan Bilbao

Musical Approaches for Working with Time-Delayed Feedback Networks
Daniel Bisig, Philippe Kocher

Electric Grammars. Algorithmic Design and Construction of Experimental Music Circuits
Simone Pappalardo, Andrea Valle


Session 7: Computer-based music analysis

Constructing PEDB 2nd Edition: A Music Performance Database with Phrase Information
Mitsuyo Hashida, Eita Nakamura, Haruhiro Katayose

Musical Feature and Novelty Curve Characterizations as Predictors of Segmentation Accuracy
Martin Hartmann, Olivier Lartillot, Petri Toiviainen

Meter Detection in Symbolic Music Using a Lexicalized PCFG
Andrew McLeod, Mark Steedman

Audio-to-Score Alignment of Piano Music Using RNN-Based Automatic Music Transcription
Taegyun Kwon, Dasaem Jeong, Juhan Nam

Lp-Viterbi Algorithm for Automatic Fingering Decision
Gen Hori, Shigeki Sagayama


Session 8: Automatic systems and interactive performance

Systema Naturae: Shared Practices Between Physical Computing and Algorithmic Composition
Andrea Valle, Mauro Lanza

Generating Equivalent Chord Progressions to Enrich Guided Improvisation: Application to Rhythm Changes
Ken Déguernel, Jérôme Nika, Emmanuel Vincent, Gérard Assayag

A Constraint-Based Framework to Model Harmony for Music Composition
Torsten Anders

pch2csd: an Application for Converting Nord Modular G2 Patches into Csound Code
Gleb Rogozinsky, Mihail Chesnokov, Eugene Cherny

Towards an Automated Multitrack Mixing Tool Using Answer Set Programming
Flavio Everardo

Explorations with Digital Control of MIDI-enabled Pipe Organs
Johnty Wang, Robert Pritchard, Bryn Nixon, Marcelo M. Wanderley

Live Orchestral Piano, a System for Real-Time Orchestral Music Generation
Léopold Crestel, Philippe Esling

A Singing Instrument for Real-Time Vocal-Part Arrangement of Music and Audio Signals
Yuta Ojima, Tomoyasu Nakano, Satoru Fukayama, Jun Kato, Masataka Goto, Katsutoshi Itoyama, Kazuyoshi Yoshii

Evaluation of the Learnability and Playability of Pitch Layouts in New Musical Instruments
Jennifer MacRitchie, Andrew J. Milne