International Faust Conference 2024 - Turin - Italy

Soundmit is pleased to announce that it will host the International Faust Conference (IFC) 2024 in Turin, Italy, on November 21-22, 2024. The IFC is a biennial event that brings together the global community of developers and users of the FAUST audio programming language. The two events will be united for the first time, creating a unique opportunity for participants to fully immerse themselves in the world of digital audio.

The conference offers a unique opportunity to:

Learn more about the FAUST language and its various applications
Meet other professionals in the audio and music industry
Attend talks, workshops, and panels on a variety of topics related to FAUST
Contribute to the future development of the language
An unmissable opportunity for all professionals

The IFC 2024 will be held two days before the 14th edition of Soundmit, the international fair on synthesizers, electronic musical instruments, digital music and sound art, which will take place in Turin on November 23-24, 2024.

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Welcome to SOUNDMIT®, Italy's premier event dedicated to synthesizers, modular synthesizers, DIY enthusiasts, Pro Audio aficionados, and cutting-edge music technologies. Every year, SOUNDMIT® draws international exhibitors and visitors from around the globe.

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Michael Brauer is back! The multi-award-winning engineer is returning to Paris for a four-day mixing masterclass from December 14–17. This winter, a select group of participants will join him in the studio for an in-depth exploration of his latest ‘Brauerize’ techniques. Drawing from his roots in the analog domain, Brauer will showcase the tools and techniques that have shaped his transition to a fully digital workflow. The program will feature a series of advanced mixing workshops, listening exercises, and technical discussions designed to challenge and elevate your skills in the studio.

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The Industry Gathers Here: 3,500+ Brands

The NAMM Show is the crown jewel event of the year for all things music and music products. This is where brands launch their most daring and awe-inspiring innovations and where retailers go to discover the next-generation tools of the trade.

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, small business or legacy brand, The NAMM Show is your place to connect with thousands of industry leaders with purchasing power. This is where the game changes.

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ContinuuCon 2025, the seventh international Haken Continuum Conference, is returning to France in March 26–28. This year’s event will take place in Paris, and will be hosted by the IRCAM Forum. It will be fully integrated in the IRCAM event with a room dedicated to ContinuuCon every morning.

Musicians, sound designers, software developers, and music enthusiasts are invited to explore the world’s most uniquely expressive electronic musical instruments through presentations, performances, and hands-on experiences. As always, ContinuuCon will focus on every instrument that features the Haken Continuum’s internal sound engine the EaganMatrix, including the Continuum Fingerboard, ContinuuMini, EaganMatrix Module for Eurorack, and Expressive E Osmose synthesizer.

ContinuuCon 2025 will also include a ContinuuCon Dinner (date still to be defined). Over these 3 days, Continuum inventor and EaganMatrix developers Lippold Haken, Edmund Eagan and Christophe Duquesne will join other authorities and some of the world’s most skilful Continuum players to share their expertise and technical knowledge. The integration in the IRCAM Forum will allow attendees to also benefit all the other conferences of the Forum to discover or go into IRCAM ‘s sonic research world in depth.

Haken Continuum players include film composer A.R. Rahman (who participated in last year’s ContinuuCon), Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor, and The Who’s Pete Townshend, who said, “I absolutely adore it. The Continuum is already inspiring me to new ideas.” You may also hear the Continuum featured in the scores to Game of Thrones, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, and the recent Dune: Part Two.

Since 2016, previous Continuum conferences have been held in Asheville, North Carolina, in Palmela, Portugal, France, and in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and this will be the second edition at IRCAM in Paris. ContinuuCon’s tickets will be integrated in the IRCAM Forum’s ticket (no additional fees) and can be purchased here: https://forum.ircam.fr/article/detai...ons-forum-2025

For additional information, and videos of past events, visit the website www.continuucon.com

Call for Presentations

In addition to Lippold Haken, inventor of the Continuum Fingerboard and ContinuuMini, scheduled presenters include Edmund Eagan and Christophe Duquesne, developers of the onboard synthesis engine the EaganMatrix. If you have an idea for a presentation, please submit an informal proposal to [email protected] as soon as you can. Presentations that incorporate some performance aspect are preferred. Presentations should be 30 to 45 minutes in length. Applications can no longer be accepted after the available slots have been assigned. Please note these presentations will also be communicated in the global IRCAM Forum agenda.

2025 AES International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Audio

The Audio Engineering Society invites audio researchers and practitioners, from academia and industry to participate in the first AES conference dedicated to artificial intelligence and machine learning, as it applies to audio. This 3 day event aims to bring the community together, educate, demonstrate and advance the state of the art. It will feature keynote speakers, workshops, tutorials, challenges and cutting-edge peer-reviewed research.

The scope is wide- expecting attendance from all types of institutions including academia, industry, or pure research, with diverse disciplinary perspectives – but tied together by a focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning for audio.

In addition to Technical Papers, we will seek proposals for panel discussions, tutorials, and master classes.

The conference aims to foster the sharing and advancement of knowledge among researchers, professionals, and engineers working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio. Thus, we will provide an opportunity to host challenges organized by teams from industry or academia as a precursor to the conference. The goal is to foster technology improvements through the continuity of challenges, but also to bring novel research directions into the field.

Please check back here for announcements of submission dates and submission procedures.