Category: News

Easter present: ticket grant for European audio events in Vienna and Warsaw

[for english see below] Der Osterhase lässt grüßen: Die AES Germany vergibt unter den Mitgliedern aller deutschen AES-Sektionen (einschließlich der “student sections”) Zuschüsse für Eintrittskarten für die beiden kommenden europäischen Audio-Event-Highlights in Wien (29.-30. April) und Warschau (22.-24. Mai). [engl.] The Easter Bunny sends his regards: AES Germany is awarding […]

AIMLA: Challenge: Querying Sound Effects by Vocal Imitation

As part of the special sessions for the upcoming AES International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Audio (AIMLA 2025), we are excited to announce the AI Challenge on Sound Retrieval! Challenge: Querying Sound Effects by Vocal Imitation Website: https://qvim-aes.github.io/ Key Dates:Start: April 1, 2025End: June 15, 2025Results Announcement: July 15, 2025 […]

Recording of the “Story of MP3” Now Online

In November 2024, AES Germany and the AES Student Section Erlangen-Nuremberg invited the »fathers« of mp3 — Karlheinz Brandenburg, Ernst Eberlein, Heinz Gerhäuser, Bernhard Grill, Jürgen Herre, and Harald Popp. They took us on a fascinating journey from the initial idea in the late 1970s to their 2000 win of […]

First AES International Conference on AI and ML for Audio (AIMLA 2025), London, Sept. 8-10, 2025, Call for contributions

deadline extended: 15 March 2025 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 […]

GRAZ: professorship on computational methods

Dear reader, My university is opening a full-time professorship on computational methods / machine learingin time-based arts and musicology, with desirable start in summer term 2026 and applicationdeadline until 5th Mach 2025. Detail in German and subsequently in English are found here: https://www.kug.ac.at/fileadmin/01_Kunstuniversitaet_Graz/05_News/Mitteilungsblatt/SJ202425/Mitteilungsblatt_11/mb_11_s_3a_Ausschreibung_Prof_99_UG_Computational_Methods_Final.pdf Best regards,Franz Zotter –Univ.Prof. Dr. Franz ZotterInstitut […]

Female Laptop Orchestra (FLO) at the 5th IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2 2024) supported by AES Germany

The Female Laptop Orchestra (FLO) is a music research project established in 2014 by Nela Brown. It connects female musicians, sound artists, composers, engineers and computer scientists globally, through co-located and distributed collaborative creation. Each FLO performance is site-specific and performer-dependent, mixing location-based field recordings, live coding, acoustic instruments, voice, […]

Call for Papers for the NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Audio Imagination: AI-Driven Speech, Music, and Sound Generation

See: https://audio-imagination.github.io/ Audio Imagination Workshop Generative AI has been at the forefront of AI research in recent times, with numerous studies showcasing remarkable and surprising generation capabilities across various modalities such as text, image, and audio. Audio Imagination Workshop at NeurIPS 2024 aims to bring the latest advancements in generative AI focusing on audio generation. Audio generation presents unique challenges […]