Music and artificial intelligence
Alan Smaill · 2002
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Thisvolumecontainsthefullresearchpapersofthe2nd International Con- renceonMusicandArti?cialIntelligence(ICMAI02),heldinSt. Cecilia’sHall, Edinburgh,UK,12–14September2002. Theconferencewasjointlyorganizedby theFacultyofMusicandtheDivisionofInformatics,UniversityofEdinburgh. Eachofthepapersinthisvolumewasrefereedbyatleastthreereviewersfrom theProgramCommittee. AdditionalpaperswereacceptedasWork-in-Progress reports,publishedseparatelybytheDivisionofInformaticsoftheUniversity ofEdinburgh. Theconferenceprogramalsoincludedround-tablediscussions, electronicmusicconcerts,earlykeyboardintrumentdemonstrations,andvarious socialevents. Thefocusoftheconferencewasontheinterplaybetweenmusicaltheoryand practiceontheonehandandtechniquesandmethodsfromArti?cialIntelligence, includingcomputationalcognitivemodelingofmusicalprocesses,ontheother. Weareespeciallyinterestedinissuesofmusicalrepresentationandanalysis, associatedalgorithms,andtheevaluationofmusicalartefacts.^ MusicpresentsmanychallengesforAIandInformaticsingeneral. Whilethe analogieswithnaturallanguageandwithvisionareproductive,musicrequires novelsolutionstoitsownrepresentationalandalgorithmicproblems. Forthe musician,workinthisareacontributestowardsmusicologicalstudy,composition, performance,interactivesystems,andsoundsynthesis. Threedistinguishedscholarsinthearea,MiraBalaban,Jean-ClaudeRisset, andAntonioCamurri,agreedtogivetheinvitedkeynotes. Thesetalkscovered di?erentfeaturesofmusicalexperienceanditsrelationtoArti?cialIntelligence, namelymusicalconcepts,composition,andperformance. Morespeci?cally,Jean- ClaudeRisset’stopicwasMusicalCompositionandArti?cialIntelligence:Some Precedents and Prospects,MiraBalaban’swas Structure and Interpretation of Music Concepts – Music from a Computational Perspective,andAntonio- murri’swasComputationalModelsofExpressiveGesture.^ Thepapersintheconferencedealtwithawiderangeofaspectsofcurrent research,includingstructural,harmonic,andreductionalmusicanalysis,pattern representationanddiscoveryinbothmonophonicandpolyphonicmusic,music perceptionofmelodyandrhythm,therelationbetweenmusicandnaturallan- age,similarityandcategorization,musicandintonation,musicalexpressionand performance,soundprocessing,soundclassi?cations,commercialapplications, andmusicontheweb. Acknowledgements. Theeditorsaregratefulforallthehelpofthosewho madethepublicationofthisvolumepossible,andespeciallyDarrellConklin, VI Organization PeterNelson,EmiliosCambouropoulos,AlisonPease,andMarkSteedman;also, JordanFleming,EwenMa
Book details
- Year
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Springer
- Editions
- 2
- Pages
- 207
- ISBN
- 9783540441458
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