2nd CompMusic workshop

Dates: July 12th-13th, 2012
Venue: Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, Istanbul
Scientific Committee: Xavier Serra, Preeti Rao, Hema Murthy, Bariş Bozkurt
More info: http://compmusic.upf.edu

CompMusic is a research project funded by the European Research Council and coordinated by Xavier Serra from the Music Technology Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Spain). It aims to advance in the automatic description of music, reducing the gap between audio signal features and semantically meaningful music concepts by taking a culture-specific perspective. It focuses on the study of five art-music traditions around the world: Hindustani (North-India), Carnatic (South-India), Turkish-makam (Turkey), Andalusian (Arab countries) and Han (China).

This second workshop will cover all the topics of relevance to CompMusic, bringing together the researchers working in the project plus researchers willing to contribute to the problems that are being worked on in the project. A selection of the articles presented in the workshop will be published as a special issue in the Journal of New Music Research. Attendance to the workshop is by invitation only. If you are interested in attending you can ask to be invited by sending an email to any of the Scientific Committee members or to mtg-info@llista.upf.edu

July 11th, Wednesday:
21:00. Folk makam music concert by Bengi Bağlama Üçlüsü

July 12th, Thursday:
09:30- Xavier Serra: "Some challenges in the computational description of various non-western music repertoires"
10:10- Suvarnalata Rao: "Culture specific music information processing: a perspective from Hindustani music"
10:50- Tea break
11:20- T M Krishna: "Gamakas, musical motifs and raga identity"
12:00- Okan Murat Ozturk: "A Semiotic Approach to the Analysis of Makam Melodies: The beginning sections of melodies as "makam indexes""
12:40- Lunch
14:10- Mohamed Sordo, Gopala Krishna Koduri, Sertan Şentürk, Sankalp Gulati and Xavier Serra: "The CompMusic Browser - a tool for discovering culture-specific musical aspects"
14:30- Christian Frisson, Onur Babacan: "MakamCycle: An Interactive Tool for Browsing Makam Music"
14:50- Eren Özek: "The concept of çeşni in Turkish music and the analysis of performance-theory differences in digital environment"
15:10- Olivier Lartillot, Mondher Ayari: "A Computational Formalization of Modal and Motivic Analysis of Maqam Improvisation"
15:30- Tea break
16:00- Ajay Srinivasamurthy, Parag Chordia: "A Unified System for Analysis and Representation of Indian Classical Music using Humdrum Syntax"
16:20- Erdem Ünal, Bariş Bozkurt, M. Kemal Karaosmanoğlu: "Incorporating Features of Distribution and Progression for Automatic Makam Classification"
16:40- Frederic Font, Xavier Serra: "Analysis of Freesound Folksonomy"
17:00- Mohamed Sordo, Gopala Krishna Koduri, Joan Serrà, Xavier Serra: "Extracting semantic relationships from a dedicated Carnatic music on-line community"
19:00- Dinner
21:00- Ottoman music concert

July 13th, Friday:
09:30- Bariş Bozkurt: "Acoustic Features for Analysis of Makam Music"
09:50- P. Sarala, Hema Murthy: "Applause Analysis of Concerts and its relevance to archival of Carnatic Music"
10:10- Punita G. Singh: "Auditory Scene Analysis and the Performance and Perception of Tabla Rhythms in Hindustani Music"
10:30- Ajay Srinivasamurthy, Sidharth Subramanian, Gregoire Tronel, Parag Chordia: "A Beat Tracking Approach to Complete Description of Rhythm in Indian Classical Music"
10:50- Tea break
11:20- Andre Holzapfel, Bariş Bozkurt: "Metrical Strength and Contradiction in Turkish Art Music"
11:40- Stéphanie Weisser, Matthias Demoucron: "Sculpting the sound. Timbre-shapers in classical Hindustani chordophones"
12:00- Tan Hakan Özaslan, Xavier Serra: "Computational Characterization of Ney Embellishments"
12:20- Sertan Şentürk, Xavier Serra: "A Computational Approach for Audio to Score Matching of Makam Music in Turkey"
12:40- Lunch
14:10- M. Subramanian:  "Generating Computer Music from Skeletal Notation for Carnatic Music Compositions"
14:30- Ashwin Bellur, Vignesh Ishwar, Hema Murthy: "A Knowledge based signal processing approach to tonic identification for Indian Classical Music"
14:50- Sankalp Gulati, Xavier Serra: "A system for tonic identification for Hindustani and Carnatic music"
15:10- Gopala Krishna Koduri, Joan Serrà, Xavier Serra: "Computational analysis of Intonation in Indian classical music"
15:30- Tea break
16:00- Joe Cheri Ross, Vinutha Prasad, Preeti Rao: "Segmentation of signature phrases in improvised bandish in Hindustani music"
16:20- Amruta Vidwans, Preeti Rao: "Distinguishing raga-specific phrases rendered in Hindustani and Carnatic style"
16:40- Srikumar K. Subramanian: "Modeling Gamakas of Carnatic Music Using a Two Component "stage-dance" representation"
17:00- Ashwin Bellur, Vignesh Ishwar, Hema Murthy: "Phrase spotting using supervised learning techniques in Carnatic Music"
17:20- Final remarks by Scientific Committee