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Sonology (music) This page describes the interdisciplinary study of sound related to music and sonic art. For other uses, see sonology.

One of the uses of the term Sonology describes interdisciplinary research in the field of electronic music and computer music, drawing upon disciplines such as acoustics, electronics, informatics, composition and psychoacoustics. This sense of the term is widely associated with the Institute of Sonology, which was established by composer Gottfried Michael Koenig at the University of Utrecht in 1967 and later moved to the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in 1986. The term has also been adopted to describe the study of electronic music at other institutions, including the Center for Computational Sonology (now "Sound and Music Computing") at the University of Padua, Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo, and Catalonia College of Music in Barcelona.

NICS - Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Comunicação Sonora
Part of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), the Interdisciplinary Nucleus of Sound Communication (NICS) was founded in 1983 by the composer Raul do Valle and collaborators. Since then, NICS has maintaining a longstanding list of participations in the academic and artistic musical scenario, specially the ones concerning the application of mathematical models and computing technology for the creation of sound synthesis methods and electro-acoustic music composition. Here we describe the major activities that NICS has been recently engaged with, specially in the areas of interactive performance, computer music, robotics, evolutionary computation applied to musical creation and, recently, physiologic signals acquisition for the retrieval of cognitive and emotive musical features.