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ISMS seminars

The ISMS group holds regular seminars with invited speakers.

Details are available for:

• Seminars in the 2009/10 academic year.
• Seminars in the 2008/09 academic year.
• Seminars in the 2007/08 academic year.
• Seminars in the 2006/07 academic year.
• Seminars in the 2003/04 academic year.
• Seminars in the 2002/03 academic year.
• Seminars in the 2001/02 academic year.
• Seminars in the 2000/01 academic year.

2009/10

24/11/09 14:00h Room 143 RHB Charlie Inskip Dept. of Information Science City University London Music in the movies: An investigation into creative music search 20/10/09 16:00h Room 256 RHB Daniel Mullensiefen Dept. of Computing Goldsmiths College FANTASTIC: A Feature Analysis Toolbox for cognitive research on the perception of popular music 01/10/09 16:00h Room 144 RHB Oded Ben-Tal Dept. of Music Technology Kingston University Musical interactions in collaborative mode

2008/09

23/07/09 16:00h Lecture Theatre BPB Sebastian Ewert Dept. of Computer Science University of Bonn Bridging the gap between Audio and MIDI using music synchronization 14/05/09 16:00h Room 138 Main building David Woolls CFL Software Limited Reviewing the reviewers - Monitoring and reading online music reviews 16/04/09 16:00h Room 3/4 BPB Stephan Baumann Competence Centre Computational Culture (C4) German Research Center for AI, Kaiserslautern (Germany) OPENEER: Raising the bar for MIR systems 19/01/09 14:30h Room 111 Education Buidling Nicholas Cook Department of Music Royal Holloway Objective expression: analysing phrase arching in recordings of Chopin's mazurkas 11/12/08 16:00h Room 3/4 BPB Chris Thornton Department of Informatics Sussex University Reconstituted Bach: Generative Music from Hierarchical N-Gram Analysis 13/10/08 12:00h Lecture Theatre BPB Andrea R. Halpern Psychology Department Bucknell University You Must Remember This: Factors Affecting Musical Memory ... or Not

2007/08

14/08/08 16:00h Lecture Theatre BPB Alisun Russell Pawley Dept. of Music, University of York Singalongability in Popular Song 29/05/08 16:00h Lecture Theatre BPB Ian Knopke ISMS Group, Goldsmiths, University of London A Methodology for the Manipulation of Meta-Motives, Memory and Musicological Meaning in Multiple Medieval Musics (Maybe) 15/05/08 16:00h Lecture Theatre BPB Bryony Buck Centre for Music Technology, University of Glasgow One Voice or Many?: Compound Melody & Auditory Streaming 10/04/08 16:00h Room 138 Main Building Alan Marsden Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University A Framework for Investigation of Schenkerian Reduction of Music by Computers 03/04/08 16:00h room 3/4 BPB Christian Hennig University College London Thinking about Cluster Analysis 14/02/08 16:00h Lecture Theatre BPB Martin Rohrmeier University of Cambridge Implicit Learning of Melodic Structure 20/11/07 16:00h Room 309 Main building Bruno Gingras McGill University, Montreal, Canada Improved score-performance matching using both structural and temporal information from MIDI recordings 15/11/07 11:00h Seminar room 25 St James Stefan Baumann, German Research Center for AI Kaiserslautern, Germany In Search of the Goosebump Factor - A Blueprint for Emotional Music Recommenders 01/11/07 16:00h Room 137 Main Building Ruth Dockwray, Department of Music, University of Surrey The Sound Box Model 20/09/07 16:00h Room 137 Main Building Diana Young, Media Lab, MIT Investigations of Bowed String Performance Through Measurement of Violin Bowing Technique

2006/07

14/06/07 16:00h BPBLecture Theatre Meinard Müller, Computer Science Department III University of Bonn Robust and Efficient Multimedia Retrieval for Music and Motion Data 31/05/07 16:30h BPBLecture Theatre Ben Finn, Sibelius Software Ltd. and Avid Technology Inc. Causation in music analysis and algorithmic composition 14/05/07 16h BPBRoom 3/4 Bernard Bel, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Université de Provence The Bol Processor project: Rule-based representation of musics 29/03/07 16h Room 3/4 Aline Honingh, School of Informatics, City University London Modeling the well-formedness of musical pitch structures: Intonation, modulations and pitch spelling 22/03/07 16h BPB Room 3/4 Anja Volk, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, University of Utrecht The Study of Persistence and Change in Meter using Inner Metric Analysis 22/02/07 Room 3/4 BPB Tobias Overath, Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London An information theoretic characterisation of auditory encoding 18/01/07, 16h Room 3/4 BPB David Murray-Rust, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh MAMA: Using ideas from speech act theory to support musical interaction

2003/04

25/05/04 Room A218b Elaine Chew, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. The Spiral Array and Computational Models for Tonal Induction and Segmentation 13/05/04 Room A144 David Temperley, Music Theory Department, Eastman School of Music. Communicative Pressure and the Evolution of Musical Style. 26/02/04 Room A218b Alan Marsden, Music Department, Lancaster University. Temporal-Logic Representation of Co-ordination in Music. 19/02/04 Room A218b Jessica Grahn, Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. Rhythmm and the brain: evidence for beat-based timing 05/12/03 Room A218b Niall Griffith, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick. How useful is the concept of Tonailty?. 16/10/03 Room A218b Dr Ian Cross, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge. Music and evolution: causes and consequences.

2002/03

12/06/03 Room A218b Stephen Hainsworth, Signal Processing Laboratory, Department of engineering, University of Cambridge. Beat tracking with particle filters. 3/4/03 Room A218b Henkjan Honing, Music, Mind and Machine group, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. Rhythm Perception and Categorisation. 13/03/03 Room A218b François Pachet Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris, France. Extracting and Exploiting High-level Music Descriptors for Electronic Music Distribution 13/2/03 Room E415 Tim Horton Faculty of Music, Cambridge University, UK. The structure dependence of pitch cognition in tonal music 6/2/03 Room E415 Liane Gabora Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies, Free University of Brussels, Belgium. Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Creative Thought postponed Niall Griffith Centre for Computational Musicology and Computer Music, University of Limerick, Ireland. Is Tonality a useful Concept in Modelling and Composition? 31/10/02 Jeremy Pickens Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Polyphonic Score Retrieval Using Polyphonic Audio Queries: A Harmonic Modelling Approach 8/10/02 Jim Halliday and Doug Pearson Indiana University, USA. Variations 2: The Indiana University Digital Music Library Project.

2001/02

15/8/02 Michael Casey Mitsubishi Electronic Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA. Music Information Systems. 16/7/02 Marcus Pearce School of Informatics, City University. Aspects of a Cognitive Theory of Creativity in Musical Composition. 20/6/02 Graeme Ritchie Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. The General Theory of Verbal Humour. 13/6/02 Graeme Ritchie Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Introduction to Analysing Verbally Expressed Humour. 2/5/02 Anna Pienim‰ki Department of Musicology, University of Helsinki. Using Maxmimal Frequent Phrases in Music Database Indexing. 11/4/02 Miguel Ferrand Faculty of Music, University of Edinburgh. Memory Based Models of Melodic Segmentation. 21/3/02 Tak-Shing Chan School of Informatics, City University. Memetic Network of Musical Agents. 7/3/02 Marcus Pearce School of Informatics, City University. The Construction and Evaluation of a Computational Model of Creativity in Musical Composition. 29/1/02 Amílcar Cardoso Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra. Giving Colour to Images. 15/11/01 Kenny Coventry Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth. Explorations in Spontaneous Composition: Gricean Constrains on Musical Conversations. 25/9/01 Amílcar Cardoso Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra. A Framework for the Study of Artificial Creative Agents.

2000/01

1/5/01 Ludger Hofmann-Engl Department of Psychology, Keele University. Melotonic Similarity. 12/4/01 Darrell Conklin ZymoGenetics Inc. Prediction and Entropy of Music. 28/2/01 Marcus Pearce School of Informatics, City University. Towards a Framework for the Evaluation of Machine Compositions. 25/1/01 Francisco Câmara Pereira Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra. Paths to Creativity. 14/12/00 Andres Melo Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. A Connectionist Model of Tension in Chord Progressions.