Announcements

Second Web Audio Conference

The second Web Audio Conference (WAC) will be held 4–6 April 2016 at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. WAC is an international conference dedicated to Web audio technologies and applications. The conference welcomes Web developers, music technologists, computer musicians, application designers, researchers, and individuals involved in Web standards, and it will address research, development, design, and standards concerned with emerging audio-related Web technologies such as the Web Audio API, Web RTC, WebSockets, and Javascript. It is open to industry engineers, academic researchers, artists, and students. The first WAC was held in January 2015 at IRCAM and Mozilla in Paris, France.

Contributions to the second edition of the Web Audio Conference are encouraged in paper, poster, demonstration, performance, and artwork formats with regard to the following topics: Web Audio API, Web MIDI, Web RTC, and other existing or emerging Web standards for audio and music; development tools, practices, and strategies of Web audio applications; innovative audio- and music-based Web applications; client-side audio processing; audio data and metadata formats and network delivery; server-side audio processing and client access; client-side audio engine and audio rendering; frameworks for audio synthesis, processing, and transformation; Web-based audio visualization and sonification; multimedia integration; Web-based live coding environments for music; Web standards and use of standards within audio-based Web projects; hardware and tangible interfaces in Web applications; and codecs and standards for remote audio transmission. All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed. The submission deadline is 1 October 2015, and authors will be notified of acceptance status by 1 December 2015.

Web: webaudio.gatech.edu

Audio Mostly

Audio Mostly, a conference focused on interaction with sound, will be held 7–9 October 2015 in Thessaloniki, Greece. This tenth edition of the conference is organized with the collaboration of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. The theme of the conference is “Sound, Semantics, and Social Interaction.” According to the organizers, this theme aims to confront issues related to audio design, semantic processing, and multimodal interaction in the social media landscape. It also attempts to investigate the role of these issues in the development of novel Web and multimedia applications utilizing modern Web technologies. The conference will also emphasize interdisciplinary work in this domain, including psychoacoustic research relating to human multimodal perception, semantic processing, emotional affect, and social interaction within rich media environments, and new practices of using sound to enhance social interaction in new media artworks and soundscapes.

Over the past decade, the Audio Mostly conference has annually brought together audio professionals, scientists and researchers, artists, theorists, content creators, interaction designers, Web and social media professionals, gaming and mobile application developers, and behavioral researchers. The conference has provided a recurring forum for sharing, promoting, and disseminating knowledge associated with the potential of audio interaction, with areas of interest ranging from novel audio designs, interactive processing and interfacing applications in varied computing environments, and essays on interactive sound, listening experience, and auditory culture.

Web: audiomostly.com