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This session serves as a forum for discussing various music discovery systems currently available on the world wide web. Examples of such systems are not restricted to only those that rely on audio features extracted from music data for making recommendations, but also include those that rely on user & genre tags, data mining from…

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 on…

Our next session will be next Wednesday, 28.03.2012, at 13:00pm, inviting you all and others interested to the discussion of the following paper: Casey, M., Veltkamp, R., Goto, M., Leman, M., Rhodes,C., and Slaney, M.: “Content-based music information retrieval: current directions and future challenges.”

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 evaluation…

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 of…

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 citation…

10 Mar 2009, 1 pm Essay series `Science and Music’, Nature Vol. 253/254. Each participant reviews briefly a chosen essay from this series. Charlie Inskip reviews: Damian Zanette – Playing by numbers Darrell Conklin reviews: David Huron – Lost in music Aline Honingh reviews: Philip Ball – Facing the music Ruben Hillewaere reviews: Michael Barron…

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 before.

For all of those new to this list, a quick description of the groups general interests: Open discussions based on one or two papers, or one talk per session will be held on a monthly basis. For upcoming dates, please let us know when you are available by updating the doodle session at http://doodle.com/iinzng5xn2a79tif. If…