My Visit at Stanford Arbee L.P. Chen 1/6/03 2/8/03
The Environment My Host : Eleanor Selfridge-Field at CCARH CCARH and CCRMA –Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (Director: Walter B. Hewlett) –Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (Director: Chris Chafe) My Office: The Trailer
Activities Gave a talk at Music 253/CS 275A on “Music Information – A Database Perspective” Gave a talk at the CCRMA Colloquium on “The Effectiveness Study of Music Retrieval Approaches” Attended Music 253/CS 275A classes Attended Johan Sundberg’s talks Attended the Database Lunches with a discussion on “Optimization of Continuous Queries in a Data Stream Management System” Advised Unjung Nam on audio retrieval Discussed with researchers at CCARH, including David Huron, Eleanor Selfridge-Field and Walter Hewlett
Lessons Learned Music notations: MIDI/MuseData/ SCORE/Finale/ Kern/MusicXML –Music modeling at CCARH and the MAKE Lab Various tools (links from –Cakewalk: MIDI sequencer with a conversion to staff –Humdrum/Kern (Beyond MIDI) #MS1# –Themefinder ( CIM 11) –Music Animation Machine ( –Finale/SharpEye: from scanner output to MusicXML to MIDI ( #MS1# Music analysis –Sachiko Deguchi: Koto Score - Japanese traditional music structural analysis ( #MS1# –Masato Yako: CIM 11 –Jane Singer: CIM 12 –Emilios Cambouropoulos
Lessons Learned Music analysis –Music often composed as: A A A B A A B A B C A C end number of consecutive repetitions of A reduced from 3 to 2 to 1 Habituation Theory variations of A exist –Prototypical melody (searching for center) –Phrase segmentation (CIM 10) –Johan Sundberg: making sense of music and music emotions ( #MS1#
Documents Obtained Three books –Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics –Composing Music with Computers –The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures Computational Music Analysis System ( #MS1# Four Issues of Computing in Musicology Papers –Unjung Nam –Jane Singer –David Cope
Plan for Future Research Audio Music Retrieval – Calvin Yan and Unjung Nam (Ryan) Music Segmentation (Jesse) Approximate Matching (Irene) Music XML Modeling (WenWen) Polyphonic Music Analysis (Greg) Music Structural Analysis (Lance/Eddie) MIDI and MuseData (Jie)