SMC Roadmap

disciplines involved

• music

  • music composition

  • music performance

  • musicology

• science and technology

  • physics

  • mathematics

  • engineering

  • psychology

• areas of application

  • digital music instruments

  • music production

  • music information retrieval (MIR)

  • digital music libraries

  • interactive multimedia systems

  • auditory interfaces

  • augmented action and perception

challenges

• design better sound objects and environments

• understand, model, and improve human interaction with sound and music

• train multidisciplinary researchers in a multicultural society

• improve knowledge transfer

• address social concerns

strategies

• promote new paradigms for sound synthesis and processing

• promote research in fields involved in the shaping of natural and artificial acoustic ecosystems

• promote computational modelling approaches in research on auditory perception and cognition

• intensify research in expressivity and communication, developing an embodied approach to perception and action

• intensify multimodal and multidisciplinary research on computational methods for bridging the semantic gap in music

• intensify interaction between research and the arts

• design appropriate multidisciplinary curricula for SMC

• promote coordination between the different educational programs and related initiatives

• promote dissemination and exploitation of SMC research and objectives

• promote academic quality standards and the use of the various models of IP protection of research result

• expand existing SMC methodologies emphasising user–centred and group experience–centred research

• expand the horizon of SMC by incorporating the research in human sciences and promoting multi–cultural approaches