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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Panel session - "The Role of Cognition in Creative Music Systems at CSMC2018"
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Dear all,
We are looking for panelists to lead a discussion on "The Role of Cognition in Creative Music Systems" at the 3rd Conference on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity at University College Dublin from 20th to 22nd August.
Various systems exist that can generate music, with varying degrees of success, addressing a range of objectives. The evaluation of such systems varies in approach and in degree of rigour. Furthermore, these systems vary in the way they model music, and the degree to which that modelling reflects human cognition.
The role of cognition is either absent or indirectly addressed in much work. Its importance is addressed as a key theme in two articles. Wiggins et al. (2010) argue that music cannot be considered at just the surface level, as cognition involves extra information. Widmer (2016) argues that in the field of Music Information Retrieval, musical interaction with computers would be qualitatively improved if computers had a deeper understanding of music than at present.
The panel session will discuss the following questions:
1. What are the features of music that make it meaningful to people?
2. To what extent do current creative music systems address these?
3. What needs to be addressed?
References
Widmer, G. (2016). Getting closer to the essence of music: the con espressione manifesto. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Special Issue on Intelligent Music Systems and Applications, 8(2), 13 pp.
Wiggins, G.A., Müllensiefen, D., Pearce, M.T. (2010). On the non-existence of music: Why music theory is a figment of the imagination. Musicae Scientiae vol. Discussion Volume 5, 231-255.
Interested participants should submit a brief description of the participant's perspective on the topic (100 words max) to [log in to unmask] by Wednesday 15th August.
Best Wishes,
Robin Laney,
Open University
The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
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