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Hello everyone,

I thought you might be interested in coming to this summer school!

Best regards,

emilia

We are pleased to announce the 2009 Summer School in Sound and Music Computing & SID Training School on Interactions with Environmental Sounds.

It will take place in Casa Da Música, Porto, Portugal, July 18th-21st, 2009, just before the 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference.

The theme of this summer school is Interacting with Sounds of Porto. This summer school will explore the potential of recording, processing, sharing and interacting with city sounds.

During 4 days, the program will include lectures, as well as hands-on practical sessions under the supervision of tutors who will provide one-to-one mentoring on artistic and/or scientific projects focused on interactions with sounds that reflect the city of Porto and its activities. Speed talks and poster sessions will also be organized for students to present and receive feedback on their current research, and to foster scientific cross-fertilization.

Lectures and teachers

1. Design of new interfaces for musical expression . Marcelo Wanderley.
2. Registering the soundscape. Joel Chadabe.
3. Sound edition, description and retrieval, social networks. Xavier Serra.

Tutors and proposed topics

1. Jean-Julien Aucouturier (Topic: Hearing objects)
2. Stephan Baumann (Topic: UrbanSync: back in Porto)
3. Eoin Brazil (Topic 1: Porto sound shaker. Topic 2: Porto Mobile Sound Wall. Topic 3: Porto fact-oid mutlimedia kiosk)
4. Bram de Jong (Topic: Porto in Freesound)
5. Luis Gustavo Martins (Topic: Automatic segmentation, classification and clustering of sounds of Porto for tangible interaction)
6. Rui Penha (Topic: Interfaces and algorithms for Casa da Mùsica robotic Gamelan)
7. Stefania Serafin and Federico Fontana (Topic: Natural interactive walking in Porto)

Dates

April 24th / Deadline for application (see details on the web)

May 12th / Notification of acceptance

There will be a registration fee of 200€ to the Summer School. The COST Action IC0601 on Sonic Interaction Design will provide financial help to a selection of students under the form of individual fixed grants of 500 Euros (preference will be given to students whose proposal projects best fit SID topics -see here).

Summer School students are also encouraged to attend the Sound and Music Computing Conference (23-25th July 2009). There will be special (lower) conference fees for Summer School students.

More info at http://www.smcnetwork.org/summerschool/porto2009

Stay tuned on the summer school and conference news:

• RSS feed: http://smc2009.smcnetwork.org/news/news/RSS .
• Facebook group: http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42958077160 .
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/smc2009

On the 15th and 16th of April Jaume Ferrete and me will be giving a talk and workshop on Freesound at the Jornadas de Conocimiento Libre (”days of free/libre knowledge”) in Madrid, Spain. In the talk (in Spanish) we will give an overview of Freesound, it’s history, growth and some rather interesting examples of how Freesound has affected various lives all around the world. The workshop (“Sonic micronarratives; identity in FreeSound”, in English) will evolve around how recording sounds - like taking pictures - is a brief view into the personal world of the recorder an how this micro-vision - as opposed to the controlled macro-vision called TV - is currently shaping the internet and our lives.

If you live near Madrid, come join us!

http://www.esp.uem.es/jcl08/