SMT Music Informatics Group

About SMT-MIG

The Music Informatics Group (MIG) is intended for music theorists involved in a wide range of research involving music information technologies, including the following:

  • computer modeling (symbolic, distributed, etc.)
  • software tools for theory and analysis
  • music representations
  • new visualization techniques
  • optical music recognition
  • music databases and digital libraries
  • search and retrieval techniques
  • electronic publishing

CURRENT: We are exploring the possibility of setting up a repository of software (code, algorithms, etc.) for researchers to share with one another.

 

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Plans for SMT 2008 (Nashville)

A special session on musical visualization (sponsored by the Music Informatics interest group of the Society for Music Theory) will be proposed for the 2008 meeting in Nashville. The format of the session will be as follows:

  • Introductory comments (Eric Isaacson): best-practice principles of music visualization; 20 minutes
  • Examples: individual presentations covering as wide a range of subjects and disciplines as possible. Each presentation should present a specific example, discussing the purpose of the particular mode of visualization, any problems that it raises, and its pros and cons, including the extent to which it exemplifies effective visual design principles. Each presentation should be no more than 20 minutes (15 minutes if possible). There will be a maximum of 4 or 5 presentations.
  • Respondant: We are looking for someone with design background to critique the examples presented. Suggestions are welcome. 20-30 minutes.
  • The remaining time would be open for discussion.

Those interested in participating are invited to submit mini-proposals. From those received, the most diverse grouping possible to maximize our resources in the limited time available, and these people will then be invited to work up an official SMT-format proposal.

For the mini-proposal, one to two paragraphs should suffice, describing the example(s) you hope to share, and how visualization and/or design issues are addressed. It would be helpful to situate your proposal in a particular subject area (analysis, pedagogy, performance, computer programing, composition, etc.). Please email these to Robin Attas (rattas@interchange.ubc.ca) no later than DECEMBER 1, 2007.

Links

Software Tools

  • Humdrum Toolkit (David Huron, Ohio State)
  • Marsyas: Marsyas is a software framework for rapid prototyping and experimentation with audio analysis and synthesis with specific emphasis to music signals and Music Information Retrieval
  • AthenaCL (Christopher Ariza). "an open-source, object-oriented composition tool written in Python."

Professional Organizations

Research Centers and Groups

Journals

Comments to Eric Isaacson