| Application period |
From November, 7th 2011 to June, 29th 2012 |
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| Duration | 1 academic year (60 ECTS credits) | |
| Course type | Research | |
| Language | English | |
| Places | 20 | |
| Organization | Department of Information and Communications Technologies | |
| Calendar and timetable | From October to June. Afternoon timetable | |
| Location | Communication Campus - Poblenou |
Sound and Music Computing (SMC) is an interdisciplinary field that takes in the whole sound communication chain, from the creation and generation of sounds to their transmission and their perception. By combining scientific, technological and artistic methodologies and computational approaches, this academic area deals with the understanding, modelling and generation of sound and music. The basic academic subjects are related to music (composition, performance, musicology), physics (acoustics), engineering (signal processing, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, electronics) and psychology (psychoacoustics, experimental psychology, neurosciences). Current areas of application include musical instruments, music production, musical information retrieval, digital music libraries, interactive multimedia systems and auditory interfaces. The UPF Master's Degree in Sound and Music Computing focuses on the more technological aspects of this field.
This master's programme aims to train the researchers and professionals who will shape sound and music computing in the new information society. By bringing together practice and theory in a wide variety of subjects such as computational models, audio engineering, perception, cognition and interactive systems, the programme offers the necessary scientific and technological background to embark on a professional career. More specifically, this programme provides its students with a grounding in the most advanced technologies for the analysis, synthesis, transformation and production of sound and music, and also in the technologies and processes that support sound and musical creation.
Students are required to take 40 credits in compulsory and optional subjects, and to complete their master's thesis, which is worth 20 credits. Through their thesis project, students are introduced to the field of research, and the thesis must make an original contribution to this field.
The teaching programme includes specific core subjects and optional subjects shared with other master's degrees offered by the Department of Information and Communication Technologies. The subjects that are most specific to this master's degree are:
As part of their thesis project, students may do internships in firms in the industry.
This master's degree enables graduates to start on a doctoral programme or join a research and/or development team in a company specialising in services and applications related to music and sound computing.
The Music Technology Research Group at Pompeu Fabra University and other research centres or companies collaborating with the master's degree offer collaboration grants as of the second term of the academic year in order for students to carry out their thesis project in the context of the Group's lines of research or development.
Other grants: http://www.upf.edu/postgrau/es/beques.