Symposium description
Computer technologies could potentially offer revolutionary tools to better understand and appreciate music. Although computer music research is a very active and productive area of research, algorithms are not yet able to comprehend the full richness of music. This symposium is an attempt to strengthen the dialogue between computer science and musicology, in both direction:
- Presenting to musicologists a broad range of research in computational musicology, in a way that should be accessible to them.
- Collecting from musicologists their particular needs, with the aim to shape computational musicology research along those lines.
The symposium is organised within the context of the MIRAGE research project, actively working along the above-mentioned objectives.
Symposium program
First day (June 8):
- 10:00-10:05: Opening remarks by Richard Gjems (Head of music section at National Library of Norway) (watch)
- 10:05-10:10: Opening remarks by Anne Danielsen (Director of RITMO) (watch)
- 10:10-10:25: Introduction to symposium and MIRAGE (Olivier Lartillot) (watch, slides, discuss on Slack)
- 10:25-11:10: David Meredith: Music analysis, pattern discovery, complexity and information (watch, slides, discuss on Slack)
- 11:30-15:40: Current developments of the MIRAGE project
- 11:30-14:30: Automated transcription and music analysis of Norwegian traditional Hardanger fiddle tunes
- 11:30-11:50: Musical introduction to Hardanger fiddle (Olav Luksengård Mjelva) (watch, discuss on Slack)
- 11:50-12:10: Archiving representations of a folk music tradition in sound and notation (Hans-Hinrich Thedens) (watch, discuss on Slack)
- 12:10-12:30: Asymmetrical meter and periodic body motion in Norwegian Telespringar performance (Mari Romarheim Haugen) (watch, slides, discuss on Slack)
- 13:00-13:20: Polyphonic transcription and generation of annotated datasets using score alignment (Anders Elowsson) (watch, discuss on Slack)
- 13:20-13:40: Representing meter in traditional fiddle music: Accounting for variability and ambiguities (Mats Sigvard Johansson) (watch, discuss on Slack)
- 13:40-14:00: Tracking beats in Hardanger fiddle tunes (OL, MSJ) (watch, slides, discuss on Slack)
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14:00-14:20: A new software for computer-assisted annotation of music recordings, with a focus on transcription (OL, AE, OLM) (watch, discuss on Slack)
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14:20-14:30: Exploring Hardanger fiddle performance patterns through interactive tools (Aleksander Tidemann) (watch, discuss on Slack)
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14:50-15:25: Dynamics analysis, and application to a comparative study of Bruckner performances (OL, Erling E. Guldbrandsen, Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacón (Con Espressione project)) (watch, discuss on Slack)
- 15:25-15:45: Acoustic substrates of musique concrète features: Towards a Toolbox de l'objet musical? (Rolf Inge Godøy, OL) (watch, discuss on Slack)
- 11:30-14:30: Automated transcription and music analysis of Norwegian traditional Hardanger fiddle tunes
- 16:00-16:45: Mathieu Giraud: Overview of Algomus team’s research on the analysis of patterns, harmony, rhythm, texture, and forms such as fugues, variations, and sonata. (watch, discuss on Slack)
- 17:00-17:45: Olivier Lartillot and Petri Toiviainen will give their perspectives on the early development of MIRtoolbox and provide an overview of how it has been used in research. Also mentioning the current project: MIRtoolbox 2.0 and the MiningSuite. (watch, discuss on Slack)
Second day (June 9):
- 10:00-10:10: Opening (OL). (watch, discuss on Slack)
- 10:10-15:50: Research projects in the topic of computational musicology
- 10:10-10:50: Dutch-Song-Database-related projects (Frans Wiering, Anja Volk) (watch, slides (Frans'), discuss on Slack)
- 10:50-11:30: Jazz-related projects Jazzomat and Dig That Lick (Martin Pfleiderer, Simon Dixon, Klaus Frieler) (watch, slides (Jazzomat, Dig That Lick, some assorted results), discuss on Slack)
- 11:45-12:30: TROMPA: Towards Richer Online Music Public-domain Archives (Emilia Gomez) (abstract, watch, slides, discuss on Slack)
- 12:30-13:10: Transforming Musicology, and some of its spin-off projects (Tim Crawford) (watch, slides, discuss on Slack)
- 13:40-14:20: Polifonia: a digital harmoniser for musical heritage knowledge (Simon Holland, Enrico Daga) (slides of first presentation) (watch, discuss on Slack)
- 14:20-15:00: CompMusic: Computational models for the discovery of the World’s Music (Xavier Serra) (watch, slides, discuss on Slack)
- 15:30-15:50: MIRAGE, musicological aims (OL) (watch, discuss on Slack)
- 15:50-17:00: Panel, followed by discussion open to all presenters at the symposium (watch, discuss on Slack)
- Christina Agnostopoulou
- Stéphanie Weisser: Computational ethnomusicology: challenges from the field (watch, slides)
- Margrethe Støkken Bue
- Christopher Witulski
- Moderator: Alexander Refsum Jensenius
- 17:00-17:10: Concluding remarks (OL) (watch)
- 17:10-17:30: Continuation of the open discussion
Call for asynchronous participation
The "synchronous" event on June 8 and 9 has ended, but the symposium continues in an asynchronous way. You are welcome to watch the video recordings and participate on Slack. The list of projects presented during the symposium is far from representing an exhaustive depiction of the research panorama. Presentations of other projects and other research groups are highly welcome. Video, text or links will be added below, and dedicated channels added on the MIRAGE Slack. Just contact me if you would like to add your own contribution.