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Hi everyone,
I would like to draw your attention and possibly interest in an upcoming seminar on Semantic Music Processing: Emotion, Style and Meaning... that I will be giving Spring 05 quarter. The main motivation for this seminar is a general feeling that most of today's approaches to analysis and understanding of musical content do not actually describe how we feel about music or what we do when we create or engage in music making.
Problems of content analysis are mostly considered today in the context of retrieval and recognition, and are predominantly motivated by work in the visual domain. Accordingly, the common applications of semantic analysis are ones of indexing and annotation-based multimedia storage. This problem definition seems not to be fully adequate for media that do not have a clear denotation or semantics. Our perceptions of music, film or computer game are ones of experience and affect rather then schematic representation or categorization. In the seminar we would like to ask basic questions as to what consists musical content? What is musical experience or affect? Is music making a rational or decision making process? Are there relations between composing or improvising music and games? What aspects of these processes could be formalized or programmed by computer? and finally, what are the applications or new perspectives that such models and understanding might offer us?
The seminar would involve reading and considering various aspects of musical and media theory in view of related cognitive and computational theories. We will consider both music theoretic aspects and some of the more technical aspects of formalization in the domain of artificial intelligence research. What we mostly plan is to re-think, critically, about the tasks and applications of content-based processing, with focus on content creation, experimentation and interaction with the computer. Topics to be dealt with include music cognition, theories of metaphor and narrative, affective computing, emotions, style learning, machine improvisation, bounded rationality and possibly some interactive dramaturgy.
Suggested papers: see next posting.
cheers,
Shlomo
I would like to draw your attention and possibly interest in an upcoming seminar on Semantic Music Processing: Emotion, Style and Meaning... that I will be giving Spring 05 quarter. The main motivation for this seminar is a general feeling that most of today's approaches to analysis and understanding of musical content do not actually describe how we feel about music or what we do when we create or engage in music making.
Problems of content analysis are mostly considered today in the context of retrieval and recognition, and are predominantly motivated by work in the visual domain. Accordingly, the common applications of semantic analysis are ones of indexing and annotation-based multimedia storage. This problem definition seems not to be fully adequate for media that do not have a clear denotation or semantics. Our perceptions of music, film or computer game are ones of experience and affect rather then schematic representation or categorization. In the seminar we would like to ask basic questions as to what consists musical content? What is musical experience or affect? Is music making a rational or decision making process? Are there relations between composing or improvising music and games? What aspects of these processes could be formalized or programmed by computer? and finally, what are the applications or new perspectives that such models and understanding might offer us?
The seminar would involve reading and considering various aspects of musical and media theory in view of related cognitive and computational theories. We will consider both music theoretic aspects and some of the more technical aspects of formalization in the domain of artificial intelligence research. What we mostly plan is to re-think, critically, about the tasks and applications of content-based processing, with focus on content creation, experimentation and interaction with the computer. Topics to be dealt with include music cognition, theories of metaphor and narrative, affective computing, emotions, style learning, machine improvisation, bounded rationality and possibly some interactive dramaturgy.
Suggested papers: see next posting.
cheers,
Shlomo
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