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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 90 10:19:29 GMT
From: Schaffrath <JMP100@EARN.DE0HRZ1A>
Subject: INFO29 (newsletter)
To: "Dr. E. H. Lubej" <A7321DAC@EARN.AWIUNI11>,
Universitaet Essen - GHS
FB 4, Musik
Prof. Dr. Helmut Schaffrath
4300 Essen 1
Co-Chairman of the "Study Group on Computer Aided Research"
in the "INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL for TRADITIONAL MUSIC"
(ICTM)
Essen, January 9, 1990
Dear friends,
the topics of our present INFO are:
1. STG-meeting in Marseille
2. MAPPET: Version 2.1 (and others)
3. New e-mail system for Ethnos
4. IASSIST Annual conference
5. Finish Project(s) in AI
6. Personal additions
I wish everyone a happy and succesful 1990!
Please do not forget to consider your participation in the STG-
meeting (Marseille, F, Spe. 28 - Oct. 2)!
Best wishes from
H. Schaffrath
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ICTM STUDY GROUP: INFO * 29 * 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, January 24, 1990
STG-meeting in Marseille
Bernard is busy looking for unexpensive accomodation and he found
a nice Youth Hostel which also has a conference room. May I re-
mind everyone to inform Bernard about whether you intend to par-
ticipate.
Among the topics of the conference should also be "Knowledge Ac-
quisition by humans and machines: Cognitive and non-cognitive
models" (expectations from research using parallel distributed
processing, for example).
MAPPET Version 2.1 and ...
ESAC is now being conversed to the music file format RELAM (rela-
tive timed MIDI) in Finland (see below). There is also a conver-
sion of ESAC into standard-MIDI file on the way (written in C for
the Atari-Series, but hopefully "compilable" for other systems).
An ENGLISH guide will be translated soon.
A CHINESE guide is being translated by Liang Jing in Bejing.
A complete DUTCH comment has been published by Frans Wiering and
Randy Tollefsen from Utrecht University. The latter also transla-
ted the English software version. MAPPET will also be used and
examined in Amsterdam now.
An ITALIAN version is planned by Lelio Camilleri.
Version 2.1 contains two minor changes helpful for AskSam users:
The BLANKS in the "Sequence of Accented Tones" have been closed
by a high (unreadable) ASCII-character and the ? (question-mark)
as countour symbol has been replaced by the $ (Dollar-) sign,
because the question-mark as a joker in AskSam cannot be searched
itself. These will probably be the last changes before a long
period of testing software and db-retrieval, especially with Chi-
nese folksongs.
Since we use the AskSam database system it might be useful for
some of you to know that this exists now in English, German,
French, Italian and Swedish.
ICTM STUDY GROUP: INFO * 29 * p. 2
New E-mail system for Ethnos and Ethnoids
As more than 60 of our readers still receive this INFO in prin-
tout, we would like to help Karl Signell introduce his new sy-
stem. Maybe this also helps to enlarge the e-mail community which
would be also helpful for this newsletter.
EthnoFORUM Now Online
CONTENTS
1 Intro
2 Terms
3 Subscribing
4 Contributions
5 Comments?
6 Credits
1 Intro
1 Intro
EthnoFORUM is a free, global, E-mail forum on ethnomusicology,
restricted to scholars, researchers, and graduate students. It is
a meeting place, a library, a publication.
Via E-mail on Bitnet/Earn/NorthNet/Internet networks or gateways
to those networks, EthnoFORUM offers a marketplace of ideas and
information. A cooperative undertaking, EthnoFORUM's offerings
depend on the ideas and participation of its subscribers.
It operates in two modes:
1. Free-for-all discussion, compiled in EthnoFORUM's electronic
periodical, "Ethnomusicology Research Digest."
2. Database (course syllabi, bibliographies, archive listings,
job offerings, works-in-progress, Ethno E-mail Directory,
etc.), available from EthnoFORUM directly at any time.
2 Terms
"EthnoFORUM" is our name for the service. Do not use it in any
E-mail commands.
"LISTSERV" is the general address under which EthnoFORUM ope-
rates. You send all commands to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or list-
serv@umdd.umd.edu (Internet). "Listserv" is also the name of the
computer program under which EthnoFORUM operates.
"UMDD" is the node address at the University of Maryland. You
might receive mail from a node closer to you.
"umdd.umd.edu" is the node address for Internet users.
"ETHMUS-L" is the address of EthnoFORUM at Listserv. Please ad-
dress messages to ETHMUS-L@UMDD.
ICTM STUDY GROUP: INFO * 29 * p. 3
"Ethnomusicology Research Digest" (ERD) compiles the EthnoFORUM
message traffic, and is sent to you unless you request NOT to
receive it.
3 Subscribing
The fastest way to subscribe to EthnoFORUM is to fill out the
following application and send it to SIGNELL@UMDD:
SUBSCRIPTION APPLICATION
EthnoFORUM
1. Lastname, Firstname
2. Email UserID
3. Nodename (Bitnet)
4. Nodename (Internet)
5. Other nodename
6. Institutional affiliation
7. Status (Grad student, prof, researcher, admin)
8. Snailmail address, 1st line
9. Snailmail, 2nd line
10. Snailmail, 3rd line
11. Snailmail, country
12. Telephone, office
13. Telephone, home
14. Specialty (Bali, Native American, rock, etc.)
15. Professional society membership (SEM, ICTM, AMS, etc.)
16. Membership number for above, from address label.
Fill out this from and send it as an Email message to:
SIGNELL@UMDD or
signell@umdd.umd.edu
To cancel your subscription, send a text message to LISTSERV@UMDD
with the UNSubscribe command:
UNS ETHMUS-L
**WARNING** If you close your Email account at the node from
which you subscribe to EthnoFORUM, or are a student whose Email
account expires at the end of each semester, please take care to
cancel your subscription to EthnoFORUM. This will guard your
good name and help preserve mental health in the Email system.
Bounced mail wreaks havoc with postmasters, Listserv, and the
Listserv list owner.
4 Contributions
EthnoFORUM will be as good as we all make it. Do you have a pa-
per you have read for which you would welcome responses before
committing it to hard print? Do you know of a publicly posted
job openings in ethnomusicology at your university? Do you want
to start a discussion on the biomechanics of tabla playing? Do
you have a bibliography of Chicago blues you would like to share?
ICTM STUDY GROUP: INFO * 29 * p. 4
Once you are a subscriber, you can interact with EthnoFORUM.
Send your file (bibliography, archive listing, etc.) in plain
ASCII form; no databases, WordPerfect, or other binary formats
for the time being, please. In the "Subject" heading of your
message, enter the word, "File." Address the file to:
SIGNELL@UMDD
Send your messages for "Ethnomusicology Research Digest" as a
normal E-mail message, addressed to:
ETHMUS-L@UMDD
..and in the "Subject" header of the message, select one of the-
se sections:
News
Jobs
Discussion
As discussion develops, we expect new sections. If you want to
start a new section of ERD, e.g., "Archeo- organology," "Request
for comments," suggest it to the moderator, Signell.
In summary:
Digest messages go to ETHMUS-L@UMDD
Commands such as subscribe or info go to LISTSERV@UMDD
Files and comments go to SIGNELL@UMDD
If you use an IBM CMS system, send all LISTSERV commands on your
command line preceded by TELL LISTSERV:
TELL LISTSERV@UMDD SUB Curt Sachs
example.
You can get more information about commands and additional fea-
tures of LISTSERV in the "General Introduction Guide", which you
can obtain by using the "INFO GENINTRO" command addressed to
LISTSERV@UMDD.
5 Comments?
Problems, questions, and comments can be sent as a message to the
EthnoFORUM moderator, Karl Signell. Please do NOT send Ethno-
FORUM email to his UMBC address. Signell's EthnoFORUM addresses
are:
signell@umdd (Bitnet), or
signell@umdd.umd.edu (Internet)
His snail-mail address is:
Dr Karl Signell
Center for Turkish Music
ICTM STUDY GROUP: INFO * 29 * p. 5
Music Deparment
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Catonsville MD 21228 USA
You can reach him by voice line at:
USA (301) 455-2489 or (301) 455-3281
6 Credits
EthnoForum came about with the help, advice, and support of a
community of scholars and technicians. At the University of Ma-
ryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Jozef Pacholczyk, Sam Gordon, and
the patient mainframe doctors encouraged the beginning of an
idea. Our worldwide email colleagues in ethnomusicology, especi-
ally Helmut Schaffrath, Peter Cooke, Peter Etzkorn, Robert Gar-
fias, and Fred Lieberman, helped nurture its growth. UMBC's si-
ster institution at College Park (UMCP) graciously provided the
mainframe account at UMDD and initial support of $5,000., with
special help from Jennifer Fajman, Ira Gold, Leon Major, Robert
Griffith, and Richard Wexler. The UMCP mainframe maven who con-
tinues to guide us through the thickets of LISTSERV is Richard
Hargan.
7 December, 1989
IASSIST Annual Conference:
Call for Papers
The International Association for Social Science Information Ser-
vice and Technology (IASSIST) will hold its 16th annual conferen-
ce May 30-June 3, 1990 in Poughkeepsie, New York at the Radisson
Hotel. IASSIST is an international association concerned with the
acquisition, processing, maintenance, and distribution of machine
readable text and/or numeric social science data.
The 1990 IASSIST conference has as its central theme "Numbers,
Pictures, Words and Sounds: Priorities for the 1990s." This tit-
le reflects the ever-expanding universe of data types, as well as
related hardware and software development. The Program Committee
is now soliciting contributions in the form of papers, proposals
for panel discussion, roundtables, poster sessions, and workshops
to be presented at the conference. Papers that discuss issues
and technologies related to non-numeric data are particularly
encouraged.
For more information contact:
Sarah E. Cox-Byrne Data Archives Vassar College Library Box 20
Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 USA Bitnet:
COXBYRNE@VASSAR.BITNET
Announcement copied by K. Peter Etzkorn from ICPSR Bulletin,
Sept'89.
ICTM STUDY GROUP: INFO * 29 * p. 6
Finish Project(s) in AI
In the Laboratory of Information and Computer Sciences in Helsin-
ki University of Technology a project named DEC is performed.
DEC (Dynamically expanding context) is an invention of professor
Teuvo Kohonen, who is a famous neural network specialist. The
current goal is to test how good the DEC-system is in producing
good music from certain original pieces. His current assistants
are Kalev Tiits, Pauli Laine, Kari Torkkola and Mika Sairanen,
who is specialised in encoding music.
In University of Helsinki, Department of Music, Electronic Music
Studio has two projects just finished this year. Namely:
1) HMT (Helsinki Music Tools)
- researchers Kai Lassfolk and Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
- HMT works in UNIX-environment
- HMT is a set of tool-like programs for stochastic composition,
generative grammars, music analysis etc. it uses TMF-music
format
2) AGO (Analysis and Generation)
- researchers Pauli Laine and Kalev Tiits
- AGO works in MS-DOS environment
- over 40 programs for music analysis in different approaches and
methods of generating music.
- small, quite simple programs
- over 40 programs for music analysis in different approaches and
- is used in teaching computer assisted music analysis
- uses Relam-music format
Personal additions
Personal additions
Iannis ZANNOS is now in Japan. We have still difficulties in rea-
ching him by e-mail, but from the States the following address
works:
IANNI@OHSUGA.U-TOKYO.AC.JP
snail-mail: RCAST, Ohsuga Laboratory, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1
Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153
Jim KIPPEN is now Professor at the University of Toronto. Congra-
tulations! His e-mail address is:
kippen@UTOREPAS (BITNET)
snail-mail: Ethnomusicology Program, Faculty of Music, University
of Toronto, Edward Johnson Building, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A1.
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