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ISMS seminars

The ISMS group holds regular seminars with invited speakers.

Details are available for:

  • Seminars in the 2007/08 academic year.
  • Seminars in the 2006/07 academic year.
  • Seminars in the 2003/04 academic year.
  • Seminars in the 2002/03 academic year.
  • Seminars in the 2001/02 academic year.
  • Seminars in the 2000/01 academic year.

2007/08

20/11/07
16:00h
tba		 Bruno Gingras
McGill University,
Montreal, Canada		 Improved score-performance matching using both structural and temporal information from MIDI recordings
15/11/07
11:00h
Seminar room
25 St James		 Stefan Baumann,
German Research
Center for AI
Kaiserslautern, Germany		 In Search of the Goosebump Factor - A Blueprint for Emotional Music Recommenders
01/11/07
16:00h
Room 137 Main Building		 Ruth Dockwray,
Department of Music,
University of Surrey		 The Sound Box Model
20/09/07
16:00h
Room 137 Main Building		 Diana Young,
Media Lab, MIT		 Investigations of Bowed String Performance Through Measurement of Violin Bowing Technique

2006/07

14/06/07
16:00h BPBLecture Theatre		 Meinard Müller,
Computer Science Department III
University of Bonn		 Robust and Efficient Multimedia Retrieval for Music and Motion Data
31/05/07
16:30h BPBLecture Theatre		 Ben Finn,
Sibelius Software Ltd. and
Avid Technology Inc.		 Causation in music analysis and algorithmic composition
14/05/07
16h BPBRoom 3/4 		Bernard Bel,
Laboratoire Parole et Langage,
Université de Provence 		The Bol Processor project: Rule-based representation of musics
29/03/07
16h Room 3/4		 Aline Honingh,
School of Informatics,
City University London 		Modeling the well-formedness of musical pitch structures: Intonation, modulations and pitch spelling
22/03/07
16h BPB Room 3/4		 Anja Volk,
Department of Information and Computing Sciences,
University of Utrecht 		The Study of Persistence and Change in Meter using Inner Metric Analysis
22/02/07
Room 3/4 BPB		 Tobias Overath,
Department of Imaging Neuroscience,
University College London 		An information theoretic characterisation of auditory encoding
18/01/07, 16h
Room 3/4 BPB		 David Murray-Rust,
School of Informatics,
University of Edinburgh 		MAMA: Using ideas from speech act theory to support musical interaction

2003/04

25/05/04
Room A218b		 Elaine Chew,
Viterbi School of Engineering,
University of Southern California. 		The Spiral Array and Computational Models for Tonal Induction and Segmentation
13/05/04
Room A144		 David Temperley,
Music Theory Department,
Eastman School of Music. 		Communicative Pressure and the Evolution of Musical Style.
26/02/04
Room A218b		 Alan Marsden,
Music Department,
Lancaster University. 		Temporal-Logic Representation of Co-ordination in Music.
19/02/04
Room A218b		 Jessica Grahn,
Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
University of Cambridge. 		Rhythmm and the brain: evidence for beat-based timing
05/12/03
Room A218b		 Niall Griffith,
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems,
University of Limerick. 		How useful is the concept of Tonailty?.
16/10/03
Room A218b		 Dr Ian Cross,
Faculty of Music,
University of Cambridge. 		Music and evolution: causes and consequences.

2002/03

12/06/03
Room A218b		 Stephen Hainsworth,
Signal Processing Laboratory,
Department of engineering,
University of Cambridge. 		Beat tracking with particle filters.
3/4/03
Room A218b		 Henkjan Honing,
Music, Mind and Machine group,
University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. 		Rhythm Perception and Categorisation.
13/03/03
Room A218b		 François Pachet
Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris, France. 		Extracting and Exploiting High-level Music Descriptors for Electronic Music Distribution
13/2/03
Room E415		 Tim Horton
Faculty of Music, Cambridge University, UK. 		The structure dependence of pitch cognition in tonal music
6/2/03
Room E415		 Liane Gabora
Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies, Free University of Brussels, Belgium. 		Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Creative Thought
postponed Niall Griffith
Centre for Computational Musicology and Computer Music, University of Limerick, Ireland. 		Is Tonality a useful Concept in Modelling and Composition?
31/10/02 Jeremy Pickens
Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 		Polyphonic Score Retrieval Using Polyphonic Audio Queries: A Harmonic Modelling Approach
8/10/02 Jim Halliday and Doug Pearson
Indiana University, USA.		 Variations 2: The Indiana University Digital Music Library Project.

2001/02

15/8/02 Michael Casey
Mitsubishi Electronic Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA. 		Music Information Systems.
16/7/02 Marcus Pearce
School of Informatics, City University. 		Aspects of a Cognitive Theory of Creativity in Musical Composition.
20/6/02 Graeme Ritchie
Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. 		The General Theory of Verbal Humour.
13/6/02 Graeme Ritchie
Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. 		Introduction to Analysing Verbally Expressed Humour.
2/5/02 Anna Pienimki
Department of Musicology, University of Helsinki. 		Using Maxmimal Frequent Phrases in Music Database Indexing.
11/4/02 Miguel Ferrand
Faculty of Music, University of Edinburgh. 		Memory Based Models of Melodic Segmentation.
21/3/02 Tak-Shing Chan
School of Informatics, City University. 		Memetic Network of Musical Agents.
7/3/02 Marcus Pearce
School of Informatics, City University. 		The Construction and Evaluation of a Computational Model of Creativity in Musical Composition.
29/1/02 Amílcar Cardoso
Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra. 		Giving Colour to Images.
15/11/01 Kenny Coventry
Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth. 		Explorations in Spontaneous Composition: Gricean Constrains on Musical Conversations.
25/9/01 Amílcar Cardoso
Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra. 		A Framework for the Study of Artificial Creative Agents.

2000/01

1/5/01 Ludger Hofmann-Engl
Department of Psychology, Keele University. 		Melotonic Similarity.
12/4/01 Darrell Conklin
ZymoGenetics Inc. 		Prediction and Entropy of Music.
28/2/01 Marcus Pearce
School of Informatics, City University. 		Towards a Framework for the Evaluation of Machine Compositions.
25/1/01 Francisco Câmara Pereira
Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra. 		Paths to Creativity.
14/12/00 Andres Melo
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. 		A Connectionist Model of Tension in Chord Progressions.