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ISE575
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Engineering Approaches to
Music Perception and Cognition
Spring 2005   Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Southern California Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering
Introduction
Week 1   Introduction
(Jan 13) Course syllabus [ PDF ] Class list [ HTML | PDF ] Signup information sheet [ PDF ] Reading plan [ PDF ]
Week 2   Making Music
(Jan 20) Impromptu by Jeanne Bamberger and Armando Hernandez, available at www.tuneblocks.com
Jeanne Bamberger (2004). "The development of intuitive musical understanding: a natural experiment." Psychology of Music 30(1):7-30. [ PDF ] presentation: [ parke ]
Hyperscore by Mary Farbood and Egon Pasztor, available at web.media.mit.edu/~mary/hyperscore
Kevin Jennings (2004) "Computer-Mediated Music Composition - A Case Study." Special Issue of EIT - Learning with ICT for C21st. [ PDF ] presentation: [ singh ]
Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos performed by the Tosheff Piano Duo, Vely Stoyanova and Ilia Tosheff, and the USC Thornton Symphony.
More info about the duo at www.tosheffpianoduo.com. Concert info. [ notes1, notes2, notes3 ]
Sample student homeworks and compositions created using Impromptu and Hyperscore: [ huang, mooser, parke, wang, zali ]
Other cool compositions: [ index ]
Week 3   Digital Representation of Symbolic Music
(Jan 27) MuseData by CCARH, available at www.musedata.org.
Walter B. Hewlet (1997). "The MuseData Representation of Musical Information." In Beyond MIDI: Eleanor Selfridge-Field (ed.) The Handbook of Musical Codes. [ HTML ] presentation: [ goodney ]
The Humdrum Toolkit by David Huron, available at csml.som.ohio-state.edu/Humdrum
David Huron (1999). "Humdrum: A Brief Tour." Ohio State University. [ HTML ] presentation: [ hossain ]
GUIDO Music Notation by the SALIERI Project group, available at www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/AFS/GUIDO
Holger Hoos, K.A.Hamel, Kai Renz and Juergen Kilian (1998). "The GUIDO Music Notation Format - A Novel Approach for Adequately Representing Score-level Music." ICMC:451-454. [ PDF/PS ]
Kai Renz and Holger Hoos (1998). "A Web-based Approach to Music Notation Using GUIDO." ICMC:455-458. [ PDF/PS ] presentation: [ huang ]
Homework 2: [ PDF ]
Musical Structures
Week 4   Detecting Beat
(Feb 3) Simon Dixon (2001) "Automatic Extraction of Tempo and Beat From Expressive Performances." JNMR 30(1). [ PDF ] presentation: [ sundar ] reports: [ li, stein, sundar ]
Masataka Goto (2001). "An audio-based real-time beat tracking system for music with or without drum-sounds." JNMR, 30(2):159-171, 2001. [ PDF ] presentation: [ stein ] reports: [ mooser, huang, stein, wang ]
Eric Scheirer (1998). "Tempo and beat analysis of acoustic musical signals." J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103(1): 588-601. [ PDF ] presentation: [ lee ] reports: [ zali, shiu ]
George Tzanetakis, Georg Essl, and Perry Cook (2002). "Human perception and computer extraction of beat strength." DAFX. [ PDF ] presentation: [ mooser ] reports: [ li, mooser, wang, zali ]
Week 5   Rhythm and Meter (conducted by Anja Volk)
(Feb 10) Anja Volk. "The Generating of Metrical Hierarchies using Inner Metric Analysis" manuscript. reports: [ huang, stein, zali ]
Douglas Eck (2001). "A Positive-Evidence Model for Rhythmical Beat Induction." JNMR 30. pp. 187-200. [ PDF ] presentation: [ wang ] reports: [ hossain, wang ]
Fabien Gouyon and Simon Dixon. (2005). "A review of automatic rhythm description systems." CMJ 29:1 [ PDF ] presentation: [ shiu ] reports: [ huang, sundar ]
Anssi Klapuri, Antti Eronen and Jaakko Astola (2004). "Analysis of the Meter of Acoustic Musical Signals." IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing. [ PDF ] presentation: [ li, e.g. ] reports: [ hossain, mooser ]
Week 6   Recognizing Pitch(es)
(Feb 17) Samer Abdallah and Mark Plumbley (2004). "Polyphonic Music Transcription by non-negative sparse coding of power spectra." ISMIR [ PDF ] presentation: [ shiu ] reports: [ huang, shiu ]
Alain de Cheveigne and Hideki Kawahara (2002). "YIN, a fundamental frequency estimator for speech and music." J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 111:1917-1930. [ PDF ] presentation: [ lee ] reports: [ hossain, zali ]
Anssi Klapuri, Tuomas Virtanen, Antti Eronen, Jarno Seppanen (2001). "Automatic Transcription of Musical Recordings." Workshop on Consistent and Reliable Acoustic Cues for Sound Analysis. [ PDF ] presentation: [ zali ] reports: [ hossain, sundar, zali ]
Malcolm Slaney and Richard F. Lyon (1990). A perceptual pitch detector. ICASSP (1):357-360 [ PDF ] presentation: [ stein ] reports: [ stein ]
Week 7   Melody and Auditory Streaming
(Feb 24) Emilios Cambouropoulos (1996). A Formal Theory for the Discovery of Local Boundaries in a Melodic Surface. Proceedings of the III Journees d'Informatique Musicale. [ PS ] presentation: [ mooser ] reports: [ hossain, mooser, sundar ]
Elaine Chew and Xiaodan Wu (2004). "Separating Voices in Polyphonic Music: A Contig Mapping Approach." CMMR, Springer Verlag LNCS #3310. [ PDF ] presentation: [ chew ] reports: [ mooser, sundar, wang, zali ]
Conklin and Anagnostopoulou (to appear). "Segmental Pattern Discovery in Music." INFORMS JoC. presentation: [ hossain ] reports: [ hossain, zali ]
Elizabeth Margulis (to appear). "A Model of Melodic Expectation." Music Perception. presentation: [ li/wang ] reports: [ li, wang ]
Week 8   Grammars for Music
(Mar 3) Steedman M J (1984) "A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences." Music Perception 2:1 52-77. presentation: [ sundar ] report: [ sundar, zali ]
Steedman M J (1996) "The Blues and the Abstract Truth: Music and Mentals Models." In: Garnham A., Oakhill J. (eds.), Mentals Models in Cognitive Science. Psychology Press, pp.305-318 [ PS ] presentation: [ zali ] report: [ hossain, mooser, shiu, wang, zali ]
Netta Spiro (2002). "Combining Grammar-Based and Memory-Based Models of Perception of Time Signature and Phase." In C. Anagnostopoulou, M. Ferrand, and A. Smaill, eds. Music and Artificial Intelligence. Berlin: Springer, pp. 183-194. [ PDF ] presentation: [ huang ] report: [ hossain, huang, mooser, shiu, wang ]
Week 9   Tonality and Context
(Mar 10) Elaine Chew (to appear). "Slicing it all ways: mathematical models for tonal induction, approximation and segmentation using the Spiral Array." INFORMS JoC [ draft ] reports: [ sundar, zali ]
Emilia Gomez (to appear). "Tonal Description of Polyphonic Audio for Music Content Processing." INFORMS JoC. presentation: [ shiu ] reports: [ hossain, mooser, wang ]
Carol Krumhansl (1990). "The Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch." Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch. Oxford University Press. presentation: [ li ]
Ozgur Izmirli and Semih Bilgen (1996). "A Model for Tonal Context Time Course Calculation from Acoustical Input." JNMR 25(3). presentation: [ lee ] reports: [ hossain, huang, mooser, sundar ]
Week 10
(Mar 17)
SPRING BREAK
Week 11   GUEST LECTURE: David Temperley, Eastman School of Music ( Seminar Announcement )
(Mar 24) David Temperley (2002). "Cognition of Basic Musical Structures." MIT Press. Chapters 1 (intro:skim), 2 (meter) and 6 (harmony).
Melisma Music Analyzer by David Temperley and Daniel Sleator, available at www.link.cs.cmu.edu/music-analysis
Homework 9: [ PDF ]
Interactive Systems
Week 12   Generating Music
(Mar 31) Gerard Assayag, Shlomo Dubnov (2004) "Using Factor Oracles for Machine Improvisation." IEEE Soft Computing: Special Issue on Formal Systems and Music. [ PDF ] presentation: [ stein ] reports: [ hossain, mooser ]
Darrel Conklin. "Music Generation from Statistical Models." AISB 2003 Symposium on AI and Creativity in the Arts and Sciences, pp 30-35. [ PDF ] presentation: [ hossain ] reports: [ hossain, shiu, stein, zali ]
Francois Pachet (2003). "The Continuator: Musical Interaction with Style." JNMR 32(3):333-341. [ PDF ] presentation: [ wang ] reports: [ sundar, zali ]
The Continuator by Francois Pachet, available at www.csl.sony.fr/~pachet
Belinda Thom (2003). "Interactive Improvisational Music Companionship: A User-Modeling Approach." User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction Journal; Special Issue on User Modeling and Intelligent Agents. [ PS ] presentation: [ sundar ] reports: [ li, sundar ]
Week 13   Creating Expression
(Apr 7) Josep Lluis Arcos, Ramon Lopez de Mantaras and Xavier Serra (1998). "SaxEx: A Case-Based Reasoning System for Generating Expressive Musical Performances." JNMR 27(3) [ PS/eg ] presentation: [ mooser ] reports: [ hossain, mooser, stein, wang ]
Roberto Bresin (1998). "Artificial Neural Networks Based Models for Automatic Performance of Musical Scores." JNMR 27(3). [ eg ] reports: [ sundar ]
Sundberg J, Friberg A, and Bresin R (2003) Attempts to reproduce a pianist's expressive timing with Director Musices performance rules. JNMR 32(3):317-326. [ PDF ] presentation: [ lee, zali ] reports: [ lee, zali ]
Werner Goebl, Elias Pampalk and Gerhard Widmer (2004). "Exploring Expressive Performance Trajectories: Six Famous Pianists Play Chopin Pieces." ICMPC8. [ PDF ] presentation: [ huang ] reports: [ hossain, li, mooser, stein, wang, zali ]
Week 14   Some Software for Music Programming
(Apr 14) OpenMusic by IRCAM, available at sourceforge.net/projects/ircam-openmusic
an object-oriented visual programming environment for music composition based on CommonLisp/CLOS
Midi Toolbox for Matlab from the U. of Jyvaskyla, available at http://www.jyu.fi/musica/miditoolbox
Nyquist by Roger Dannenberg, available at www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~music/music.software.html
a sound synthesis and composition language based on a Lisp syntax
Improv by Craig Sapp, available at improv.sapp.org
a C++ environment for writing programs that enable musician/computer interaction using MIDI instruments.
Week 15   GUEST LECTURE: Christopher Raphael, Indiana University, Bloomington ( Seminar Announcement )
(Apr 21) Christopher Raphael (2004). "Aligning Musical Scores with Audio usig hybrid Graphical Models." AAAI 2004. [ PDF ] reports: [ mooser, wang, zali ]
Christopher Raphael and Joshua Stoddard (2003). "Harmonic Analysis with Probabilistic Graphical Models." ISMIR 2003. [ PDF ] reports: [ hossain, shiu ]
Christopher Raphael (2003). "Orchestral Musical Accompaniment from Synthesized Audio." ICMC. [ PDF ] reports: [ stein, sundar, zali ]
Christopher Raphael (2001). "A Bayesian Network for Real-Time Musical Accompaniment." NIPS. [ PS ] reports: [ hossain, lee, wang ]
Week 16
(Apr 28)
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