SMC-15 Summerschool: 26th - 29th July


Sound Design for Media and enabling Audio Technologies

The Summer School of the SMC Conference will take place from Sunday 26th July to Wednesday 29th July. The theme of the Summer School is Sound Design for Media and enabling Audio Technologies. The program for the summer school is to have a mix of workshops and lectures from both industry and academia. The aim is to broaden the skills palette and hands-on technical skills of the participants.

If you are:

then you would benefit from participating in the summer school.

To apply for a place on the summerschool email a Curriculum Vitae and a letter of interest that clearly indicates your motivation and previous experience with music technology research by Wednesday July 1st, 2015.

A maximum of 20 selected participants will be notified by Monday July 6th, 2015.

The cost of attending the summer school, including lectures, training sessions, laboratory material, lunches and coffee breaks is €200. All applications and inquiries can be directed to the SMC Summer School Chair:

Joseph Timoney jtimoney@cs.nuim.ie

We are very happy to introduce all of our workshop presenters for SMC15

Sunday 26th July
12:30 - 13:30
Welcome to Summer School and lunch
Workshop I
 
14:00 - 17:00
Hands-on Foley Sound workshop with Ardmore Sound including talks by EMMY nominees (Game of Thrones), Caoimhe Doyle and Jean McGrath. - Link to .pdf file on Workshop I Talks and Presenters
17:30 - 18:30
Introduction to Maynooth town and Campus
 
18:30 -
Meet for drink in Brady’s bar, Maynooth

Monday 27th July
Workshop II
 
10:00 - 11:00
Workshop on modern digital studio mastering techniques by MSB Mastering, Ireland - Link to .pdf file on MSB Mastering Workshop
 
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00
Continuation of MSB workshop
 
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30
Workshop: Creative Coding for Natural User Interfaces - Stephen Howell (Microsoft Ireland)
 
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30
Group introduction followed by Lecture in Sound Texture Synthesis algorithm Dr Sean O’Leary (IRCAM)
 
18:00 - 19:00
Traditional Irish music session at Maynooth campus
 

Tuesday 28th July
Workshop III
 
10:00 - 11:00
Workshop on Parallel computing and GPUs for audio processing by Professor John ffitch (University of Bath)
 
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Continuation of Parallel computing and GPUs workshop
 
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30
Industry invited-talk on GPUs in audio by Movidius
 
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30
Project Work period
17:30 - 20:00
Meal and Tour of Castletown House, Celbridge, Co. Kildare
 

Wednesday 29th July
10:00 - 11:00
Workshop by Xilinx Ireland on FPGA Technology and Audio
 
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Xilinx workshop continued
 
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 17:00
MAKER.IE DIY Fuzz Guitar Pedal Workshop. - Link to .pdf file on Workshop
 
18:30 - 19:30
Extramuros live coding concert