From the Abstract: The ability to anticipate forthcoming events has clear evolutionary advantages, and predictive successes or failures often entail significant psychological and physiological consequences. In music perception, the confirmation and violation of expectations are critical to the communication of emotion and aesthetic effects of a composition. Neuroscientific research on musical expectations has focused...

Rebecca Fiebrink et al.: Human Model Evaluation in Interactive Supervised Learning. http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~fiebrink/publications/FiebrinkCookTrueman_CHI2011.pdf Moreover, we invite you to join us for a post-meeting pint at the peasant. From the Abstract We present work studying the evaluation practices of end users interactively building supervised learning systems for real-world gesture analysis problems. We examine users’ model...

The discussed paper Associations between Musicology and Music Information Retrieval Kerstin Neubarth, Mathieu Bergeron and Darrell Conklin A higher level of interdisciplinary collaboration between music information retrieval (MIR) and musicology has been proposed both in terms of MIR tools for musicology, and musicological motivation and interpretation of MIR research. Applying association mining and content...

You’re invited to the next Music Informatics Reading Group session, which will be held next Monday, Mo, 19.09.2011, at 3pm. We’re looking forward to introduce and start the discussion of Music Emotion Recognition: A State of the Art Review, Youngmoo E. Kim et al., ISMIR 2010. We’ll announce the room for the session shortly...