bradr@bartok.Eng.Sun.COM (Brad Rubenstein) (06/08/90)
Music-Research Digest Fri, 1 Jun 90 Volume 5 : Issue 56
Today's Topics:
A new US distributor needed
ICTM STG Info no. 30
*** Send contributions to Music-Research@uk.ac.oxford.prg
*** Send administrative requests to Music-Research-Request
*** Overseas users should reverse UK addresses and give gateway if necessary
*** e.g. Music-Research@prg.oxford.ac.uk
*** or Music-Research%prg.oxford.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
*** Back issues, index, etc.: send "help" in a message to archive-server
*** @uk.ac.oxford.prg (in the UK) or @bartok.sun.com (elsewhere)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 90 23:06:22 BST
From: The Moderator (Stephen Page) <music-research-request@uk.ac.oxford.prg>
Subject: A new US distributor needed
To: music-research
Message-ID: <9006012206.AA07258@prg.ox.ac.uk>
Sadly, Brad Rubenstein is moving on to another site soon. This means that his
extremely valuable services as US (and elsewhere) redistributor of the Digest
will need to find a new home.
Essentially, this involves maintaining a mailing list and providing a gateway
into Usenet; it also involves keeping an archive server (although this could
be housed on another site if we get two volunteers!). A Unix environment is
almost essential to handle the kind of work required; we can supply scripts
and the source for the archive server.
Please think about this, Unix hackers -- Brad will be submitting a note giving
further details and calling for volunteers in a future Digest.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 18 May 90 11:01:37 MEZ
From: Schaffrath <JMP100@EARN.DE0HRZ1A>
Subject: ICTM STG Info no. 30
To: Stephen Page <Stephen.Page@uk.ac.oxford.prg>
[ Although some of the conferences below have already been listed in the Digest,
this INFO from Prof. Schaffrath collects them together, so I have included
them in case anyone missed anything earlier. Also, there are some interesting
notes from a Tokyo reader of his INFO included below. - S ]
ICTM STUDY GROUP: INFO * 30 * p. 1
Universit{t Essen - Gesamthochschule
FB 4, Musik
Prof. Dr. Helmut Schaffrath
4300 Essen 1 e-mail: JMP100@DE0HRZ1A(EARN)
Co-Chairman of the "Study Group on Computer Aided Research"
in the "INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL for TRADITIONAL MUSIC"
(ICTM)
Essen, May 15, 1990
STG-MEETINGs and conferences
The Study Group of Analysis and Systematisation of Folk Music
meets in Santiago de Compostela from Sept. 17 to 22. We have not
succeeded in planning the two meetings without the interval of
one week, for our meeting in Marseille will be held from Septem-
ber 29 to 30. This again leaves a two day interval for those who
want to attend the MIM conference (see INFO29).
Data on the STG-meeting in Marseille
"TRANSCRIPTION OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC"
MEETING OF THE STUDY GROUP ON COMPUTER RESEARCH
International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM)
29-30 September in Marseille (France)
(Organised by ISTAR France)
This meeting is an informal seminar focussing on problems encoun-
tered with the transcription, analysis and archiving of music in
oral traditions. Most members of the Study Group have already
introduced their work in previous meetings in Essen (FRG), Berlin
(DDR) and in Edinburgh (UK). Since the field is in rapid evolu-
tion, however, it is beneficial to maintain regular contacts. In
addition, we invite non-members to participate in discussions and
present their own work. The STG meeting will also introduce the
roundtable "From musical reality to computer implementations"
proposed by B. Vecchione, B. Bel and J. Kippen in the MAI Confe-
rence from 3-6 October (see next announcement). Depending on the
number of communications, the meeting may be extended over
October 1-2.
ADDRESS:
Auberge de Jeunesse de Bois-Luzy (Youth Hostel), Chateau de Bois-
Luzy Allee des Primeveres, F-13012 Marseille
Tel. (033) 91 49 06 18
The Youth Hostel is a 19th century castle on a hill, in a peace-
ful environment with a splendid view on the old city. Meals will
be served at the Youth Hostel.
TIMING (provisional):
9H30 - 12H30 14H30 - 17H30
an evening of music and dance is scheduled on 30.
ACCOMODATION:
All meals will be served at the Youth Hostel. Rooms will be mai-
de available to participants. Depending on the number of parti-
cipants, accomodation may be one or two per room. Please return
the application form at the end of this Info.
COST OF ACCOMODATION:
Rooms: FF 37 (approx. US $ 6) per night per person
Camping: FF 17 per night per person
Breakfast: FF 13 Lunch or dinner: FF 38
REGISTRATION:
An entrance fee of FF 200 (approx. US $ 30) will be asked to co-
ver expenses. Participants who wish to stay in the MAI Conference
(3-6 October) may apply for special arrangements.
MIM - conference
M M A I "MUSIQUE ET ASSISTANCE INFORMATIQUE"
MM MM A A I
M M M M A A I MUSIC AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
M M M M A A I
M M M AAAAAAAAA I 3 - 6 OCTOBER 1990
M M A A I LA VIEILLE CHARITE, MARSEILLE (FRANCE)
2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY
LABORATOIRE MUSIQUE ET INFORMATIQUE DE MARSEILLE (MIM)
(ENGLISH-FRENCH SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION)
COMMITTEE:
Jean-Paul Allouche, Mira Balaban, Mario Baroni, Francois Bayle,
Bernard Bel, John Blacking(+), Lelio Camilleri, Helene Charnasse,
Marc Chemillier, Francois Delalande, Giovanni De Poli, Roberto
Doati, Marcel Fremiot, Pascal Gobin, Jim Kippen, Otto Laske, Marc
Leman, Christoph Lischka, Alan Marsden, Andre Mouret, Michel
Philippot, Guy Reibel, Andre Riotte, Bernard Vecchione
SPONSORS:
City of Marseille, French Ministry of Culture, European Council
TOPICS:
- Theory and methodology of musical analysis and composition
(representation of the thought processes of the analyst and
the composer, etc.)
- Modelling and formalising analysis and composition
(transcription, symbolic or logic representations, grammars
and automata, representations of sound, structure, time, etc.)
- Computer-aided composition and analysis
- Expertise (analytical and compositional expertise, procedural
or rule-based approaches, expert systems, machine learning,
parallel distributed processes, connectionist models, etc.)
- Music and Humanities (cognitive psychology, perception, memori-
zation, anthropological approaches, semiotics, etc.)
ROUNDTABLES (10H00 - 17H00):
C. Lischka & M. Leman: "Can parallel-distributed systems gene-
rate musical structures?"
O. Laske: "Composition theory"
F. Bayle: "Computer assistance for the graphic representation
of electroacoustic musical works"
A. Riotte: "Formalization and mathematical/computer models of
musical scores"
B. Vecchione, B. Bel, J. Kippen: "From musical reality to com-
puter implementations"
Authors of the communications published in the proceedings
will take part in the roundtables:
P. Beyls, E.B. Blevis, M. Boroda, A. Camurri, F. Courtot, F.
Degrassi, M. Dessainte-Catherine, J. Duthen & M. Stroppa, J.
Jones, H. Katayose, E. Pedler & R. Cagnasso, S. Rao & D. Bis-
was, R. Roozendaal, U. Seiffert, A. Smail & G. Wiggins, S.
Smoliar, J. Tal & U. Shimony, A. Veitl, J. Zhou.
CONCERTS:
3-4-5-6 October at 21H00, Conservatoire National de Region
(Annexe Melchion)
Musical works by:
F. Bayle, L. Camilleri, R. Doati, J. Dorival & Y. Orlarey, M.
Fremiot, P. Gaigne, P. Gobin, P. Kosk, O. Laske, A. Mouret, M.
Philippot, A. Riotte, F. Villa.
SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATION (daily)
PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF MUSICAL WORKS (daily)
REGISTRATION:
FF 500 (approx. US $ 80) including the proceedings which will
be available on the premisses of the Conference.
Student registration (without proceedings): FF 150
Registration gives admission to all concerts.
INFORMATION:
Detailed information, hotel reservation form, orders for pro-
ceedings:
Laboratoire MIM, 36 Bd Pardigon, F-13004 Marseille
Tel. (033) 91 50 03 75
E-mail contact: bel@frmop11.bitnet
AI-conference
The 1990 Artificial Intelligence and Music Workshop, which is
the third annual meeting of researchers in that field, will be
held in the context of the ECAI (European Conference on A.I.)
in Stockholm, on August 7, 1990, this year.
The organizers of the workshop are:
1. Antonio Camurri, Genova, Italy
<music@dist.dist.unige.it>
2. Mira Balaban, Beer Sheva, Israel
<mira%bengus.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
3. Kemal Ebcioglu, Yorktown Height, N.Y., USA
<kemal@ibm.com>
4. Otto Laske, Boston, MA
<laske@bu-cs.bu.edu>
5. Marc Leman, Ghent, Belgium
<musico%bgerug51.bitnet>
6. Christoph Lischka, Bonn, F.R.G.
<charli%gmdzi.uucp@relay.CS.net>
A call for submissions of papers will go out soon. For further
information at this point, please contact Antonio Camurri.
Otto Laske
January 13, 90
COMPUTERS IN MUSIC RESEARCH
7-10 April 1991
The Queen's University of Belfast
Call for Papers and Demonstrations
Following the success of the conference at the University of
Lancaster in 1988, a second conference on the use of computers
in all branches of musical research is to be held from Sunday
7 to Wednesday 10 April 1991 at The Queen's University of Bel-
fast. As before, the emphasis will be on approaches, methods,
tools and practicalities. Computers are by now commonly used
for musical research: for the storage and manipulation of lar-
ge amounts of data, for the production of musical scores and
musical sounds, in the composition of pieces, for the model-
ling of cognitive processes, for the testing of theory, and
for a whole host of other purposes. Yet music creates its own
computing problems, and these are often shared between a num-
ber of musical disciplines. Thus it is useful to have a forum
where analysts can meet with ethnomusicologists, composers
with educationalists, psychologists with historical musicolo-
gists, and so on, to share ideas, experiences, problems and
solutions in the use of computers.
PAPERS of about 30 minutes duration are invited. Abstracts of
400-500 words should be sent to Alan Marsden at the address
below, to arrive by 1 August 1990 at the latest. Authors of
papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be
informed by 15 October and asked to send an extended abstract
for inclusion in the conference handbook by 1 January 1991.
If possible, please send abstracts by electronic mail so that
they can be easily distributed to the programme committee.
DEMONSTRATIONS of hardware and software are also invited.
Send a description in no more than 250 words of the item(s) to
be demonstrated, and their function, to Alan Marsden at the
address below by 1 August 1990 at the latest, if possible by
electronic mail. Submissions for both a paper and a demon-
stration relating to a single project are welcome.
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY has hosted a number of highly successful
conferences in recent years (e.g. the British Association for
the Advancement of Science in 1988 with 2800 delegates), and
is proving to be a popular venue. This conference will take
place in the Music Department, a spacious Edwardian building
on the main University site adjacent to the Botanical Gardens,
about a mile south of the City centre. Accommodation will be
available in the nearby Queen's Elms Halls. The cost of at-
tending the conference (including accommodation and meals but
excluding travel) is likely to be about 110 pounds. A concert
of music related to the conference proceedings is planned, and
also an excursion to see some of the scenic beauty of Northern
Ireland (e.g. the world-famous "Giant's Causeway") immediately
preceding or following the conference.
Programme Committee: Prof. Lelio Camilleri, Conservatorio
"L.Cherubini"/CNUCE, Florence, Italy Prof. Jim Kippen, Univer-
sity of Toronto, Canada Dr. Alan Marsden, The Queen's Univer-
sity of Belfast, Northern Ireland Dr. Anthony Pople, Lancaster
University, England Dr. Eleanor Selfridge-Field, CCARH, Menlo
Park CA, USA
For further details, contact the conference organiser: Dr.
Alan Marsden Department of Music The Queen's University of
Belfast Belfast BT7 1NN Northern Ireland
Email: A.Marsden@uk.ac.qub.v1
or A.Marsden@v1.qub.ac.uk
or A.Marsden%v1.qub.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
or A.Marsden%qub.v1@ukacrl.bitnet
Member's project on computer aided composition
My main research interest is computer-aided composition and
the modelling of composition processes by computer. I am not
trying to imitate any given style though, but rather trying to
develop my own. I am interested in applying methods from the
fields of cellular automata, fractals and neural networks to
compose music. On the other hand, coming from the field of
ethnomusicology (traditional music), with main subject the
near-eastern and especially greek and turkish musical traditi-
ons, I am deliberately moving away from Western musical
aesthetics, and trying to study and apply those of the tradi-
tional musics that interest me.
I am working mainly on a Symbolics LISP-Machine running "Ge-
nera" version 7.2. This Operating System provides a very com-
prehensive Common Lisp environment and equally extensive user-
interface programming facilities. Furthermore, Genera Common
Lisp contains is a substantial extension based on the "Flavor"
concept, that embodies a powerful object-oriented programming
philosophy. My initial experiences up to now have been very
positive. The plans are to have the UCSD "CARL" software run-
ning on the SUN Network at the Ohsuga Lab, as well as other
UNIX sound synthesis software.
Also, we have a Mac SE/30, to which I attached a Proteus sound
module. I am currently trying to interface this with the Lisp
Machine over standard MIDI files and the Vision sequencer, as
well as experimental software such as preFORM et al. I am not
very pleased with the sounds of Proteus, but with work, it
should be able to get some less shiny but finer sounds out of
it. (Question: Is anyone from our group working with Allegro
Common Lisp or Smalltalk on the Mac?)
I think cellular automata may be useful in creating complex
polyphonic (also polyrhythmic) structures, with different de-
grees of control over melodic, harmonic and rhythmic features.
Fractal characteristics are often recognizable in the melodic
structure of modal, highly ornamented melodic music, such as
the greek orthodox church music and turkish art music. It is
interesting to note this in improvised music, such as the
"taksim" of near eastern musics, as there may be deeper per-
ceptual and senso-motoric reasons for the preference of highly
recursive patterns over different time-span levels. Finally,
neural networks, being conceived to bridge the gaps between
different perceptual and conceptual levels, may be a good ap-
proach when trying to consider the interaction of sound para-
meters over different time-span and conceptual levels as for
example timbre, amplitude and pitch in microstructure (the
structure of single notes or musical events) and macrostructu-
re (the structure of motivs, phrases, melodies). Such an ap-
proach necessarily goes beyond the use of 12 notes per octave,
but I doubt whether the term "microtonal music", which is so-
metimes used, is appropriate.
Greetings to all colleagues and best wishes for the new deca-
de.
Iannis Zannos, Tokyo
Converting ESAC to DARMS
Frans Wiering wrote a program which converts ESAC to DARMS.
It is written in ICON, a public domain programming language, a
copy of which would be needed to run the program (it is an
interpreted language).
The program "END" accepts both formats described in the ESAC
manual (STAIRS and AskSam) and either translates into standard
DARMS code (as described in Erickson's manual 1976) or in NP
DARMS for printing the code withe The Note Processor. This
DARMS dialect ins described in Stephen Dydo's NP manual.
We have tested the program version 1.02 and must say it works.
END is distributed on the condition that the receiver makes no
further copies except for personal or institutional use. In-
stead, persons or institutions interested in the program
should contact the author for a free copy. His address:
Frans Wiering
Insituut voor Muziekwetenschap
Spuistraat 134
NL-1012 VB Amsterdam
e-mail: WIERING @ALF.LET.UVA.NL
News on Archiving
When we started our computer aided archiving programs in 1983,
we dreamed of lazer disks to store the whole music archive
including verbal information. At least one part has become
reality now in Holland. The Music Catalogue of the Netherlands
(MCN) sells its catalogue of "some 200,000 comprehensive title
descriptions of printed music, in principle allowing virtually
every detail to be retrieved" on CD-ROM available with English
and Dutch system messages. It performs on any PC (640 KB)
connected to a CD-ROM player.
More can be received from:
MCN MUSICROM
Postbus 119
1200 AC Hilversum
The Netherlands
------------------------------
End of Music-Research Digest
--
---Brad Rubenstein-----Sun Microsystems Inc.-----bradr@sun.com---