Programme

Room E201 – UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

Monday 20^th August

9.30 Registration

10:30 Coffee

10:45 Welcome (Professor Michael O’Neill)

11: 00 – 12:30 Paper Session 1

Chair: Robin Laney

• “Computational Music Aesthetics: a survey and some thoughts” – Stefano Kalonaris and Anna Jordanous  pdf
• “The Theory and Analysis of Computer-Generated Music: A Case-Study of Colossus” – Steven Jan  pdf
• “Automatic Music Accompaniment Technology Applied to Recreational Singing Activities at Long-Term Health-Care Facilities” – Yasuyuki Saito, Yasuji Sakai, Yuu Igarashi, Eita Nakamura, Suguru Agata and Shigeki Sagayama pdf

12:30 – 2:00 Lunch

2:00 – 3:00 Keynote Address: Sarah Angliss

“Automating the muse”

Why should we endeavour to simulate musical composition or performance? Will the essence of musical creativity and inspiration always lie beyond analysis? If compositional processes can be automated, what are the implications for flesh and blood composers? What can we learn from far earlier systems, rendered on pen and paper, that can help us to establish the utility or aesthetics of automatic composition systems today? Composer, automatist and sound historian Sarah Angliss gives a personal take on the conference theme, looking at approaches to musical automation, composition and performance from the Renaissance to the era of Artificial Life.

3:00 – 4:00 Panel 1: “Ethical considerations in CSMC”

Chair: Róisín Loughran

Panelists: Martin Clancy, David Edelman, Cale Phut

4:00 Break

4:30 – 6:00 Paper Session 2

Chair: David Fagan

• “Resonant Element: An Application for the Continuous Generation of Pop-Inspired Music” – B.T Franklin  pdf
• “Representation Learning for Drum Loops with a Variational Autoencoder” – James McDermott pdf
• “Applying Melody Morphing Method to Composition” – Masatoshi Hamanaka, Keiji Hirata and Satoshi Tojo pdf

6:30 – 8:00  CSMC Concert

Tuesday 21^st August

9.10 – 10:10 Concert Panel: An opportunity to discuss the Monday evening concert with the composers.

10:10 – 11:00 Paper Session 3

Chair: Stefano Mauceri

• “Computational Detection of Local Cadence on Revised TPS” – Masaki Matsubara, Yuki Ishiwa, Yui Uehara and Satoshi Tojo  pdf
• “Preliminary Study on Morphing of Chord Progression” – Aiko Uemura and Tetsuro Kitahara (short paper) pdf

11:00 Break

11:30 – 12:30 Keynote Address: Tim Blackwell

“Alien Music”

Alien Music can be difficult. Many find the music incomprehensible and tedious. Others talk of glimpsed structures, of patterns and extraterrestrial mathematics, of a new aesthetics. We suggest how information theory might enable us to understand this mysterious music and provide a dynamical model of alien-human musical interaction.

12:30 – 2:00 Lunch

2:00 – 3:00 Paper Session 4

Chair: Nam Le

• “Music Generation System Based on a Human Instinctive Creativity” – Hidefumi Ohmura, Takuro Shibayama, Keiji Hirata and Satoshi Tojo pdf
• “Deep Segment Hash Learning for Music Generation” – Kevin Joslyn, Naifan Zhuang and Kien Hua  pdf

3:00 – 4:00 Panel 2: The Role of Cognition in Creative Music Systems

Chair: Robin Laney

Panelists:  Tim Blackwell, David Meredith, Geraint Wiggins

4:00 Break

4:30 – 6:00 Paper Session 5

Chair: David Lynch

• “Ambient Data Monitoring w/Generative Music Systems using EC & ML Techniques.” – Stephen Roddy pdf
• “Computational creativity specification for music: comparative analysis of machine improvisers Favoleggiatori 2 and MASOM” – René Mogensen pdf
•  “Discovery and Utilization of Jazz Motifs for Computer-Generated Solos” – Joseph Yaconelli and Robert Keller pdf

7:00 Conference Dinner at Rage Restaurant

Wednesday 22^nd August

9:30 – 10:30 Late Breaking Abstracts

Chair: James McDermott

• “Support System for Excercising Guitar Chord Performance” – Mai Udagawa, Aiko Uemura and Tetsuro Kitahara pdf
• “Lead Sheet Generation with Musically Interdependent Networks” – Benjamin Genchel and Alexander Lerch pdf
• “An improvisation System for Disabilities based on Melody Creation with Gaze Control” – Tetsuro Kitahara, Yasuyuki Saito, Sergio Giraldo and Rafael Ramírez pdf
• “Musical Creativity Tool “Open Melody”” – Raymond Whorley and Robin Laney pdf

10:30 – 11:00 “Shimon the Robot Film Composer and DeepScore” – Richard Savery and Gil Weinberg pdf

11:00 Break

11:30 – 12:30 Paper Session 6

Chair: Steven Jan

• “Singing Blocks: Considerations for a Virtual Reality Game to create chords and Progressions” – Joseph Timoney, Behnam Faghih, Anthony Gibney, Benjamin Korady and Gareth Young  pdf
• “Deep Adaptive Music: The Ultimate Frontier of Machine Generated Music” – Valerio Velardo pdf

12:30 – 2:00 Lunch

2:00 – 3:00 Panel: After Academia in CSMC

Chair: Ger Lardner

Panelists: Martin Clancy, Valerio Velardo, Stephen Donoghue, Fergal Dowling

3:00 – 4:00 Community Meeting

4:00 Farewell