MIRAGE Symposium #1: Computational?Musicology

The 1st MIRAGE Symposium took place on 8-9 June, 2021, but continues online: all videos are available and the discussion can continue on Slack.

The symposium is organised in the context of the MIRAGE project (RITMO, in collaboration with the National Library of Norway's Digital Humanities Laboratory).

Day 1: Video, YouTube link.

Day 2: Video, YouTube link.

Follow and continue the discussion on Slack. Get access to the MIRAGE Slack workspace by clicking here.

Time and place: June 8, 2021 10:00 AM – June 9, 2021 6:00 PM, Zoom webinar

Table of Contents

Symposium description

Computer technologies could potentially offer revolutionary tools to better understand and appreciate music. Although computer music research is a very active and productive area of research, algorithms are not yet able to comprehend the full richness of music. This symposium is an attempt to strengthen the dialogue between computer science and musicology, in both direction:

Presenting to musicologists a broad range of research in computational musicology, in a way that should be accessible to them.
Collecting from musicologists their particular needs, with the aim to shape computational musicology research along those lines.

The symposium is organised within the context of the MIRAGE research project, actively working along the above-mentioned objectives.

Symposium program

First day (June 8):

10:00-10:05: Opening remarks by Richard Gjems (Head of music section at National Library of Norway) (watch)
10:05-10:10: Opening remarks by Anne Danielsen (Director of RITMO) (watch)
10:10-10:25: Introduction to symposium and MIRAGE (Olivier Lartillot) (watch, slides, discuss on Slack)
10:25-11:10: David Meredith: Music analysis, pattern discovery, complexity and information (watch, slides, discuss on Slack)
11:30-15:40: Current developments of the MIRAGE project
- 11:30-14:30: Automated transcription and music analysis of Norwegian traditional Hardanger fiddle tunes
  - 11:30-11:50: Musical introduction to Hardanger fiddle (Olav Lukseng?rd Mjelva) (watch, discuss on Slack)
  - 11:50-12:10: Archiving representations of a folk music tradition in sound and notation (Hans-Hinrich Thedens) (watch, discuss on Slack)
  - 12:10-12:30: Asymmetrical meter and periodic body motion in Norwegian Telespringar performance (Mari Romarheim Haugen) (watch, slides, discuss on Slack)
  - 13:00-13:20: Polyphonic transcription and generation of annotated datasets using score alignment (Anders Elowsson) (watch, discuss on Slack)
  - 13:20-13:40: Representing meter in traditional fiddle music: Accounting for variability and ambiguities (Mats Sigvard Johansson) (watch,