Motivations.
 The course aims to provide the basis for the representation and processing of audio and music information, with particular reference to the most relevant application areas (multimedia, interfaces and virtual reality, internet, artistic creation). Targeted audience.
 Third year students of the Natural Science Class. Students of other classes are welcome. Syllabus.
 Fundamentals of digital audio processing. Models of audio signal and of acoustic sources. Auditory models and audio compression. Affective computing and multimodal interaction. Recognizing and communicating expressive information. Music information retrieval. Multimedia archives. Computational methods for artistic creation: music performance, theatre and dance, live electronics, sound design.