I am pleased to announce a workshop which will be held on October 25th in Macerata, Italy with the support of AIMI and AES Italian Section, hosted by the Italian Synth Museum. The workshop will be devoted to the IRIS research center (I've described it during my recent keynote at ICSC), including the development of the MARS, a workstation for live electronics, music performance and signal processing. IRIS was founded by Bontempi-Farfisa, a large musical instrument manufacturer

I am back from the International CSound Conference, held in Cagli, Italy, on September 26-29 2019. Some days have passed, but I want to recollect some of the more vivid memories of this conference. I should say, first, that the conference was great. The organization team was tight on schedules, well organized and lovely. Alessandro Petrolati and Laura Muncaciu have been amazing, Anthony di Furia was excellent with the technical supervision of the musical program and the rest

I am honored to announce the following special issue on the MDPI Applied Sciences Journal (IF: 2.217): "Deep Learning for Applications in Acoustics: Modeling, Synthesis and Listening". Papers will be published as soon as they are accepted and they will be open access, allowing novel research work to reach a broad audience in a timely fashion. Topics may include: Applications of Deep Learning to sound synthesis Control and estimation problems in physical modeling Intelligent m