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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Provisional program

Day 1 (Monday, 8 June)

National Library of Norway, Oslo

Navigating our Digitized Musical Heritage

Organised by Olivier Lartillot (RITMO), Pierre Beauguitte and Ingrid Romarheim Haugen (National Library), and Alexander Refsum Jensenius (RITMO)

Presentations of collections and work done at the National Library

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

Brief presentation of the MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity, and in particular the Work Package 6 dedicated to AI for cultural heritage

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), E-Laute project (David M. Weigl), Grieg digital catalogue (Arnulf Christian Mattes), ....

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

Optical Music Recognition. With also 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

Organised by Olivier Lartillot (RITMO), Alexander Refsum Jensenius (RITMO) and Yngvar Kjus (Department of Musicology)

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, ...

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

Presentation by David Meredith

Some aspects briefly presented during Day 1 discussed with some more details during Day 2

RITMO Panel on Multimodality and Metadata in Musicology

Organised by Olivier Lartillot and Alexander Refsum Jensenius

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