Musik und Informatik

We will discuss applications of computer science to music. Topics will include: How to represent music and musical scores? What is MIDI? How does MP3 work? How does recording software work, and what can be done with it? How to extract rhythms and musical scores from raw acoustic data? What is the mathematics behind 3D-sound effects? A subset of the proseminar will focus on music and machine learning: automatic song recognition based on training exemplars (e.g. how does last.fm work?), learning to recognize musical style, learning to compose music in a particular style, learning to interpret musical scores by imitation of accomplished artists, etc. For example, Experiments in Musical Intelligence by David Cope or Wolfram Tones can serve as nice topics.

Topics:

• Visual Computing (Processing, NodeBox, Lew)
• Live Coding (with Fluxus).
• Codecs (MP3, OGG, gstreamer-framework)
• Music & Cellular Automatons
• Music Classification
• Learning to play like the great pianists
• Digital Rights Management
• Electronic Music
• Music playing robots

Organizer: Professor Jürgen Schmidhuber.

Contact: Christian Osendorfer. Please direct questions, suggestions, etc. regarding this proseminar to Christian.

Presentation: Your presentation should be about 30 - 40 minutes. The presentation language is either German or English. You might want to check out these suggestions for your presentation. Talk to your advisor at least 3 weeks before your scheduled talk and show him your presentation.

Date:
 
Block seminar
 
two days in june 2009
 
MI 03.07.023