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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 )      
• 10:05-10:10: Opening remarks by Anne Danielsen (Director of RITMO)      
• 10:10-10:25: Introduction to symposium and MIRAGE (Olivier Lartillot)      , slides, )
• 10:25-11:10: : Music analysis, pattern discovery, complexity and information      , , )
• 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 ()      , )
    • 11:50-12:10: Archiving representations of a folk music tradition in sound and notation ()      , )
    • 12:10-12:30: Asymmetrical meter and periodic body motion in Norwegian Telespringar performance (Mari Romarheim Haugen)      , slides, )
    • 13:00-13:20: Polyphonic transcription and generation of annotated datasets using score alignment (Anders Elowsson)      , )
    • 13:20-13:40: Representing meter in traditional fiddle music: Accounting for variability and ambiguities ()      , )
    • 13:40-14:00: Tracking beats in Hardanger fiddle tunes (OL, MSJ)      , slides, )

    • 14:00-14:20: A new software for computer-assisted annotation of music recordings, with a focus on transcription (OL, AE, OLM)      , )

    • 14:20-14:30: Exploring Hardanger fiddle performance patterns through interactive tools ()      , )

  • 14:50-15:25: Dynamics analysis, and application to a comparative study of Bruckner performances (OL, ,  ())      , )

  • 15:25-15:45: Acoustic substrates of musique concrète features: Towards a Toolbox de l'objet musical? (, OL)      , )
• 16:00-16:45: : Overview of  team’s research on the analysis of patterns, harmony, rhythm, texture, and forms such as fugues, variations, and sonata.      , )
• 17:00-17:45: Olivier Lartillot and will give their perspectives on the early development of and provide an overview of how it has been used in research. Also mentioning the current project: MIRtoolbox 2.0 and the .      , )

Second day (June 9):

• 10:00-10:10: Opening (OL).      , )
• 10:10-15:50: Research projects in the topic of computational musicology
  • 10:10-10:50: Dutch-Song-Database-related projects (, )      , slides (Frans'), )
  • 10:50-11:30: Jazz-related projects nd  (Martin Pfleiderer, , )      , slides (Jazzomat, Dig That Lick, some assorted results), )
  • 11:45-12:30:  () (abstract, , , )
  • 12:30-13:10: , and some of its spin-off projects ()     , , )
  • 13:40-14:20:  (  ()     , )
  • 14:20-15:00:  ()     , slides, )
  • 15:30-15:50: MIRAGE, musicological aims (OL)     , )
• 15:50-17:00: Panel, followed by discussion open to all presenters at the symposium     , )
  • Stéphanie Weisser: Computational ethnomusicology: challenges from the field     , slides)
  • Moderator: Alexander Refsum Jensenius
• 17:00-17:10: Concluding remarks (OL)     
• 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.

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