Ten papers were given high praises by reviewers and meta-reviewers alike. Two of these have been selected as Best Papers of SMC 2012 by the Chair and Technical Paper Committee (Bob L. Sturm, Sofia Dahl, Stefania Serafin) in collaboration with Doug Keislar of The Computer Music Journal. The winners will be announced soon, and are invited to submit a revised and expanded version for publication in a future issue of The Computer Music Journal. Congratulations to all!

“Yig, the Father of Serpents: A Real-Time Network Music Performance Environment” by Chad McKinney and Nick Collins

“SKETCHING CONCATENATIVE SYNTHESIS: SEARCHING FOR AUDIOVISUAL ISOMORPHISM IN REDUCED MODES” by Augoustinos Tsiros, Gregory Leplatre and Michael Smyth

“The FireFader and Derivatives: Simple, Open-Source, and Reconfigurable Haptics for Musicians” by Edgar Berdahl and Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos

“An Automated Testing Suite for Computer Music Environments” by Nils Peters, Trond Lossius and Timothy Place

“LCSynth: A Strongly-Timed Synthesis Language that Integrates Objects and Manipulations for Microsounds” by Hiroki Nishino and Naotoshi Osaka

“Automatic Calibration of Modified FM Synthesis to Harmonic Sounds using Genetic Algorithms” by Matthieu Macret, Philippe Pasquier and Tamara Smyth

“SpatDIF: Principles, Specification, and Examples” by Nils Peters, Trond Lossius and Jan C. Schacher

“A Framework to Evaluate the Adoption Potential of Interactive Performance Systems for Popular Music” by Nicolas Gold

“PAPERTONNETZ: MUSIC COMPOSITION WITH INTERACTIVE PAPER” by Louis Bigo, Jérémie Garcia, Antoine Spicher and Wendy Mackay

“A System for Sketching in Hardware: Do-It-Yourself Interfaces for Sound and Music Computing” by Daniel Overholt