Symposium on Digital and AI Musicology

This event offers an overview of current research on the use of computational methods and AI in music libraries and musicology. Bringing together key members of the European consortium EarlyMuse, in coordination with the national MishMash – Centre for AI & Creativity and in particular its thematic area on cultural heritage, it presents recent work on digital archives, music information retrieval, and AI-based approaches to musicological and heritage research.

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Organised by Olivier Lartillot (RITMO), Pierre Beauguitte (National Library), Ingrid Romarheim Haugen (National Library), Alexander Refsum Jensenius (RITMO), and Yngvar Kjus (Department of Musicology)

Provisional program

Day 1 (Monday, 8 June)

National Library of Norway, Oslo

Navigating our Digitized Musical Heritage

Presentations of collections and work done at the National Library: ?folk music collection, sound archive, NB-Noter, etc.

Frans Wiering: presentation of the report “Making Corpus Creation in Early Music Rewarding and Effective” (EarlyMuse)

Digital music collection: Dutch Song Database (Peter van Kranenburg, Anja Volk, Frans Wiering), Fondo de Música Tradicional IMF-CSIC and Books of Hispanic Polyphony (Emilio Ros-Fàbregas), Grieg digital catalogue (Arnulf Christian Mattes), NRK collection (Tone N?tvik Jakobsen)

Philippe Vendrix: Musicology as data science and heritage science: presentation of a COST action report (EarlyMuse)

Optical Music Recognition. With David Rizo and Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza.

Panel session.

Day 2 (Tuesday, 9 June)

Salen, ZEB building, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo

Research Forum on Musicology, AI, and metadata

Presentation of the MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity; Work Package 6 dedicated to AI for cultural heritage

Chant/singing analysis, with Dániel Péter Biró, Peter van Kranenburg, Anja Volk, Frans Wiering, Olivier Lartillot, ...

AI-powered curation, transcription and analysis of the Norwegian folk music collection, in collaboration with the University of Oslo

Preliminary presentation of the upcoming EarlyMuse report on “Historical Musicology and Artificial Intelligence”

Augustin Braud: Musica*, a consortium for digital musicology : aims, tools and use cases

Session on metadata

Presentation by David Meredith

RITMO Panel on Multimodality and Metadata in Musicology

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