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rgong tarafından Pzt, 04/09/2017 - 14:46 tarihinde gönderildiFinal Report
xserra tarafından Per, 24/08/2017 - 17:06 tarihinde gönderildiCompMusic has finished, and our funding agency, ERC, asked us to write a brief report. Here is it.
Achievements along the main objectives/activities
The CompMusic project has been a big and long project with many achievements, impossible to summarize here. For a presentation of all the results please check the project website. Here we try to just highlight the main achievements.
The main objectives of the project, as stated in the initial proposal were:
Technology and Multiculturality
xserra tarafından Paz, 17/04/2016 - 22:44 tarihinde gönderildi[Article published in the daily newspaper La Vanguardia on Sunday 17th 2016. English translation of the original text written in catalan.]
Two evenings of Chinese traditional music
rcaro tarafından Çar, 27/01/2016 - 13:37 tarihinde gönderildiLast December (2015), Barcelona’s Conservatori Municipal de Música hosted two sessions of Chinese traditional music, the first one devoted to the silk and bamboo music genre and the second one to jingju (Beijing opera). For this occasion, two music formations based in London were invited, the Silk & Bamboo Ensemble and the UK-Chinese Opera Association. Each of them offered a presentation of their respective music genre, explaining its main characteristics and demonstrating some aspects of it, and afterwards a full performance. This event was the result of the joint efforts of several local institutions, namely Barcelona Confucius Institute Foundation, Casa Asia, the Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona, CompMusic and the Phonos Foundation. You can find the hand programmes (in Spanish) for these events in the links below, and the corresponding videos in this Youtube list.
Nīla Saṅgīta - An evening of Indian Classical Music and Dance
ajays tarafından Salı, 30/06/2015 - 15:09 tarihinde gönderildiSaṅgītarasikā, with the support of CompMusic organized a concert titled "Nīla Saṅgīta": An evening of Indian Classical Music and Dance, at Arts Santa Mònica, La Rambla 7, Barcelona on the 25th June, 2015.
The ensemble included Núria Cabo (Kathak dance), Amit Mishra (tabla), Jordi Prats (sarod) and Jacopo Pacifico (bansuri). The ensemble opened the show with the instrumental performances of the bansuri and the sarod, both accompanied by the tabla. The Kathak recital, in which the dancer performed the sacred love stories of Radha and Krishna, brought all the artists together on stage.
The videos from the concert are on YouTube, with the links below:
Sharing our research on jingju music in China
rcaro tarafından Per, 04/06/2015 - 19:56 tarihinde gönderildiLast May, Xavier Serra, Zhang Shuo and Rafael Caro spent more than two weeks in China visiting different companies and universities with the aim of sharing our research on jingju music and the hope of finding possible collaborators for CompMusic. From May 15th to May 28th we visited five universities, three music conservatories, three companies, one theatre academy and one research centre, giving fifteen talks both in Chinese and English to audiences ranging from computer engineers to musicologists, musicians and music aficionados (you can find here an abstract of the presentation, the slides and related videos). In each of these venues we received a warm welcoming and interest from the audience.
Shuo, Xavier and Rafael in front of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
Gundecha Brothers in Barcelona
ajays tarafından Per, 24/07/2014 - 16:52 tarihinde gönderildiDhrupad is an ancient vocal genre of Indian Art music. Gundecha Brothers, who are among the most active exponents of Dhrupad music, visited Barcelona for a lecture demonstration and a concert. They also visited the MTG before the concert for a discussion with the CompMusic team. They were very supportive of the activities of CompMusic and gave us valuable suggestions.
The lecture demonstration and the concert were held at the Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona. The lecture demonstration was tiltled "Making of Voice and Raga in Indian music" and aimed to explain several concepts of Dhrupad. It provide valuable insights into aspects of voice, melody and rhythm in Dhrupad. Prof. Xavier Serra presented an introduction to CompMusic project. The concert was very well received by an audience of over 400. The event was organized by CompMusic, Phonos, Casa Asia, Samgitarasika and Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona with support from several organizations.
JNMR special issue on Indian and Turkish music
xserra tarafından Cum, 04/04/2014 - 13:06 tarihinde gönderildi
Mid-term report
xserra tarafından Salı, 25/02/2014 - 18:28 tarihinde gönderildiCompMusic has reached the midpoint and our funding agency, ERC, asked us to write a brief report on our progress. Here it is.
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In CompMusic we want to advance in the field of Music Information Research by approaching a number of current research challenges from a culture specific perspective. We want to develop information modelling techniques of relevance to several non-Western music cultures and in the process we want to contribute to the overall field of MIR.
The work carried out during the first half of the project, from July 2011 until now, can be grouped under six headings: (1) choosing the music repertoires and building the research team, (2) identifying and defining the research problems and methodologies, (3) building the research and test corpora, (4) characterizing melody and rhythm, (5) developing an overall evaluation strategy, and (6) disseminating the project goals and results.
3rd CompMusic Workshop dedicated to Indian music
xserra tarafından Pzt, 20/01/2014 - 17:41 tarihinde gönderildiOn December 13th, 14th and 15th, we organized the 3rd CompMusic workshop together with several other events at IIT-Madras (Chennai, India), all of them related to the work we are doing on Carnatic and Hindustani music. On the 13th we organized a research workshop to present current research results, on the 14th we organized a special seminar aimed to the general public and dedicated to the tools we are developing for the exploration and appreciation of Carnatic music, and on December 15th there was a lecture demonstration by the mridangam virtuoso Dr. Umayalpuram K Sivaraman. The slides and video recordings of most of the presentations are available online.
Ontologies, Semantic Web and CompMusic
Anonymous tarafından Çar, 18/09/2013 - 10:48 tarihinde gönderildiIn CompMusic we have pooled in a lot of resourceful information about music from different parts of the world, from a variety of sources: metadata (eg: Musicbrainz), structured data on the web about different entities (eg: DBPedia pages for artists/raagas), audio analysis (eg: melodic/rhythmic descriptions) and data mining (eg: forum/social data analysis, textbooks). Dunya [1], being developed in the project, is a web-based software application to navigate the music collections using descriptions of concepts specific to the given music. Specifically in this context, even though each of the information sources is useful and important in its own way, interlinking them yields certain advantages. Some of these are mentioned as we progress through the blog post.
Galata Electroacoustic Orchestra
sertansenturk tarafından Cum, 09/08/2013 - 16:55 tarihinde gönderildiFrom the 15th to the 26th of July 2013, some members of the MTG participated to the Galata Electroacoustic Orchestra Intensive Program (GEO-IP). GEO-IP is a summer school under the Erasmus Lifelong Learning Programme whose aim is to fuse the traditional music of Istanbul, Genoa and Barcelona with contemporary electronic music. These three Mediterranean harbor-cities have been in commercial and cultural exchange for centuries, and share numerous historical, sociological, cultural and architectural connections. An example is the Galata Tower in Istanbul, which also gives its name to the orchestra. This landmark was built by the Genoese in the 14th century.
Indian Art Music concerts in Barcelona
ajays tarafından Salı, 09/07/2013 - 15:51 tarihinde gönderildiCarnatic Music Concert
Arab-Andalusian Music
xserra tarafından Cts, 06/04/2013 - 15:56 tarihinde gönderildiOn February 2013 I made a trip to Morocco, together with Mohamed Sordo, to attend an Andalusian music festival in Fez and to meet with the musician and musicologist Amin Chaachoo in Tetouan. This was the first trip to Morocco in the context of CompMusic and the objective was to stablish contacts and to decide the first steps to take in our research on Andalusian music, which is one of the five music cultures that we want to focus on.
Applause and Aesthetic Experience
xserra tarafından Paz, 06/01/2013 - 12:48 tarihinde gönderildiM.V.N Murthy, collaborator of CompMusic that a part from being a physicist is an excellent Veena player, wrote this very nice article about the aesthetics of Indian art compared with the European one, specially talking about music.
MusicBrainz Summit 12
Anonymous tarafından Salı, 20/11/2012 - 18:33 tarihinde gönderildiOn the weekend of November 10th-11th, the CompMusic team hosted the annual MusicBrainz summit (in its 9th edition) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. The yearly summit is an opportunity for the geographically diverse MusicBrainz community to meet for a few days and do high-level planning for the next year of site development. As most communication in the MusicBrainz world is performed over email and internet chat, it is useful to get together face-to-face to quickly come to an agreement on topics that otherwise may take a long time to discuss online.
ISMIR 2012
xserra tarafından Per, 15/11/2012 - 14:30 tarihinde gönderildiThe 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2012) was an important event for CompMusic. At ISMIR 2011 we had presented the project and some very preliminary work (see blog post) and this time the goal was to have a stronger impact by presenting more mature research results. We definitely succeeded, we had 8 papers from CompMusic (see news item) and other papers and events showed the influence of our project.
Proper romanization of Indic terms
Anonymous tarafından Pzt, 10/09/2012 - 16:39 tarihinde gönderildiIn publications, it is many times necessary to include Indic terms that cannot, or should not, be translated. Hence, we use the terms transliterated to latin script. In most scientific papers and other publications we find those terms transliterated very liberally. This results in two problems: (i) Ambiguity in their pronunciation (Eg: whether to elongate a vowel or not), (ii) Multiple spellings for a given word (Eg: Sourashtram, Saurastram). This is the reason why good publishing houses use a transliteration standard which enforces consistency and improves readability. ISO 15919 is one such widely used standard which defines a transliteration/romanization scheme for all the Indic scripts/languages. It is a super-set of IAST which is defined for Sanskrit.
Chinese Instruments
xserra tarafından Pzt, 20/08/2012 - 18:36 tarihinde gönderildiDuring the month of May 2012 I was in China, mainly in Beijing, making contacts for CompMusic and trying to learn about the art music of China. I knew very little of the traditional Chinese instruments and even less about the different music traditions that exist in China. This trip opened me a fascinating world that I would like to study further and understand more. Here I just write a bit about some of the instruments that I was able to get in contact with and about some aspects of their music. I briefly write about the Guqin, Xun, Pipa, Guzheng, Sheng, Erhu, Dizi, Xiao, and also about the modern Chinese orchestra and the Beijing opera.
2nd CompMusic Workshop
xserra tarafından Salı, 24/07/2012 - 10:59 tarihinde gönderildiOn July 12th and 13th 2012 we organized the 2nd CompMusic Workshop in Istanbul, at Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi. Right before the workshop we also had three days of meetings with all the project team. This was the first time we had all the members of CompMusic together. The location was idilic, right on the Bosphorus, with a great view of the strait and of the city. Both the pre-workshop meetings and the actual workshop were very successful, academically and socially. Thanks to the great organization by the team of Bariş Bozkurt everything went very smoothly and the feed back by the participants has been very positive.