ISMS seminars

The ISMS group holds regular seminars with invited speakers.

Details are available for:


2010/11

14/09/11
16:00h
Room 3.05
New Academic Building, Goldsmiths
Robert Strandh
University of Bordeaux
Line and page breaking in score editors
23/08/11
16:00h
Room 3.32
New Academic Building, Goldsmiths
Ben Schultz
MARCS Auditory Laboratories
University of Western Sydney
The implicit learning of metrical and non-metrical temporal patterns
26/07/11
16:00h
Lecture Theatre
Ben Pimlott Building
Keyvan Yahya
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Information Theory and Traditional Persian Music
19/07/11
16:00h
Room 3.14
New Academic Building, Goldsmiths
Fred Dick
Department of Psychological Sciences
Birkbeck, University of London
Environmental sound recognition and auditory scene analysis as naturalistic windows into perception, cognition, language (and possibly music).
3/06/11
12:00h
Recital room 167
RHB
Roger Dannenberg
Schools of Computer Science, Art, and Music
Carnegie Mellon University
Music Understanding and the Future of Music Performance
31/05/11
16:00h
Room 306
RHB
Marcel Zentner
Department of Psychology
University of York
Music's Emotive Specificity
29/03/11
16:00h
Seminar rooms 3/4
BPB
Jane Masters
Department of Music
Kingston University
An investigation into the nature of musical creativity and some of the factors that affect its expression and perception in musically trained and untrained individuals
22/03/11
16:00h
Room 143
RHB
Abigail Dolan
Music Department
Kings College London
Shaping directionality in performance: The Syrinx case
8/02/11
16:00h
Room 226
RHB
Kat Agres
Department of Psychology
Cornell University, Ithaca
Musical learning and memory: A multi-method approach
18/01/11
17:00h
Seminar Rooms
BPB
Hauke Egermann
Schulich School of Music
McGill University, Canada
Expectation and Emotion in a Live Concert Experiment
11/11/10
16:00h
Room 137
RHB
Alan Marsden
Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
Lancaster University
Software for Schenkerian analysis: how do we know if it is any good?
21/09/10
16:00h
Room 308
RHB
Thomas Praetzlich
Department of Computing
Goldsmiths College
Predicting and generating chord sequences using the IDyOM model

2009/10

27/07/10
16:00h
Lecture Theatre
BPB
Miguel Molina
Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
University of Granada
Identifying performers by their expressive trends
22/07/10
16:00h
Lecture Theatre
BPB
Tom Collins
Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology
Open University
Discovering translational patterns in symbolic representations of music
10/06/10
16:00h
Room 137
RHB
Vanessa Hawes
Department of Musicology
Middlesex University
Dynamic probability and ecological perception: musical information in retrospect and anticipation
27/05/10
16:00h
Lecture Theatre
BPB
Ju-Lee Hong
Department of Musicology
Goldsmiths College
Measuring Expression: Between Individual Expressivity and Cultural Similarity
18/03/10
14:00h
Room 137a
RHB
Albrecht Schneider
Institute of Musicology
University of Hamburg
Research Concepts in Systematic Musicology
01/03/10
14:00h
Room 144
RHB
Ben Fields
Department of Computing
Goldsmiths College
Analysis and Exploitation of Musician Social Networks for Recommendation and Discovery
11/02/10
14:00h
B8
Deptford Town Hall
ISMS group
Department of Computing
Goldsmiths College
Harmony Workshop
18/12/09
16:00h
Lecture Theatre
BPB
Stephen Downie
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Acronym Soup: Can ISMIR, MIREX, NEMA, and SALAMI be made nourishing for music scholars?
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.
Progress in multiple viewpoint systems.
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.

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