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    Reading Group Meeting 13.03.2013: Music Information Retrieval Meets Music Education

    by  • February 25, 2013 • News, Reading Group

    Our next session will be on Wednesday  13.03.2013, 4:30pm, XXX room changed to A112 XXX (College Building), inviting you all and others interested to the discussion of the following paper: C. Dittmar, E. Cano, J. Abesser, and S. Grollmisch, “Music Information Retrieval Meets Music Education,” in Multimodal Music Processing, Dagstuhl Follow-Ups, M. Müller, M. Goto, and M....

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    Reading Group Meeting 20.02.2013: Improvising Musical Structure with Hierarchical Neural Nets

    by  • February 18, 2013 • News, Reading Group

    Our next session will be this Wednesday, 20.01.2013, 4:15pm, room AG06 (College Building), inviting you all and others interested to the discussion of the following paper: B, Smith and G. Garnett, “Improvising Musical Structure with Hierarchical Neural Nets“, in proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference, 2012. Abstract: Neural networks and recurrent neural networks...

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    Reading Group Meeting 30.04.2012: Statistical Learning and neural manifestations of musical expectation.

    by  • June 21, 2012 • News, Reading Group

    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...

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    Reading Group Meeting 27.02.2012: Training Interfaces for Music Production

    by  • March 15, 2012 • News, Reading Group

    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...

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    Reading Group Meeting 25.01.2012: To be or not to be – on the non-existence of music

    by  • January 18, 2012 • News, Reading Group

    Our next session will be next Wednesday, 25.01.2012, at 1pm, inviting you all and others interested to the discussion of the following paper: On the non-existence of music: Why music theory is a figment of the imagination. Geraint Wiggins, Daniel Müllensiefen. and Marcus T. Pearce www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas03dm/papers/MSc_WigginsMullensiefenPearce_2010.pdf We argue for an approach to the theory...

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    Reading Group Meeting 12.12.2011: ISMIR 2011 and Musicology

    by  • December 12, 2011 • News, Reading Group

    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...

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