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    About

    About

    The Laboratory of Sound and Music Computing promotes the interaction, expression and immersion with sound and music through digital media.

    The Laboratory hosts 11 researchers from INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia and from the Department of Informatics Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.

    Location: FEUP Campus, Porto

    Research Areas

    Research Areas

    The laboratory addresses the following main areas of research in the field of Sound and Music Computing

    • Music Information Retrieval
    • Human-Computer Musical Interaction and Interactive Music Systems
    • Automatic Music Generation and Procedural Music
    • Music applications for Pattern Recognition
    • Music Robotics
    • Audio Processing
    • Immersive Audio   
    Equipments

    Equipments

    The equipment available at the Laboratory is the following

    • Symbolic Sound Pacarana
    • Doepfer Modular Synth
    • Roli Seaboard
    • Universal Audio Microphone Pre-Amplifier
    • Several Apple Macintosh computers
    • Music software (e.g., Max/MSP, Kyma, Ableton Live, Protools)
    • Several multichannel audio interfaces (e.g., Metric Halo, Avid)
    • Several studio monitors and subwoofers (e.g., Adam, Mackie)
    • Several MIDI interfaces (e.g., Akai, Novation)
    • Several microphones (e.g., Schoeps, Røde).
    Centres and Stakeholders

    INESC TEC

    CTM
    CentreTelecommunications and Multimedia

    Stakeholders

    FEUP
    UniversityFaculty of Engineering of the University of Porto
    Prototypes

    Prototypes developed at Sound and Music Computing Laboratory

    D’accord

    Automatic Music Harmonization

    SEED

    Sound Environmental ExpanDer

    Interactive Music Mashup

    Computer-Aided Musical Orchestration

    a.bel

    connecting audiences using smartphones

    Contacts
    Rui Penha

    Manager

    Matthew Davies

    Manager

    +351222094299

    matthew.davies@inesctec.pt