Keynote Speakers:
- Representing Creative Rhythms
- Professor Elaine Chew, Queen Mary, University of London
- Evaluating the creativity of computational musicians
- Dr. Anna Jordanous, University of Kent
Programme
Monday 11th September
09.00 – 10.00: Registration
10.00 – 10.30: Coffee
10.30 – 11.00: Welcome (Robin Laney)
11.00 – 12.30: Paper Session 1: Algorithmic Generation
- Chair: Steven Jan
- Computer-Generated Stylistic Compositions with Long-Term Repetitive and Phrasal Structure.
- Perturbing Deep Learned Models for Sound and Text Generation in Composition and Performance
- Learning Transformations of Musical Material using Gated Autoencoders
12.30 – 14.00: Lunch
13:15: Performances
- Jonathan Moss. The Poem Unleashed
- Simon Kilshaw. Cerebal Mutterings
- Stefano Kalonaris. Duoing
14.00 – 15.00: Panel Session 1: Now that deep learning has solved music, what’s next?
- Chair: Bob Sturm
- Panelists: Oded Ben-Tal, Elaine Chew, Roger Dean, Anna Jordanous, Stefan Lattner, Kevin Webster
15.00 – 16.00: Paper Session 2: Short Talks
- Chair: Iris Yuping Ren
- Andrea Franceschini. Technologies and Practices to “Uncomplicate” Music
- Dory: a Purposively Flawed and Forgetful Artificial Musical Agent
- Nemesio García-Carril Puy. On the Ontological Category of Computer-Generated Music Scores.
16.00 – 16.30: Coffee
16.30 – 18.00: Paper Session 3: Analysis and Generation
- Chair: Róisín Loughran
- Learning to Lose Control: Composition, Computation and Collaboration with CloudCube
- A Pattern Recognition Approach to Analyze Temporal Evolution of a Bassist’s Musical Styles
- Polyphonic Music Analysis Database Based on GTTM
18.30 – 20.00: Concert (event sign-up)
- Torbjörn Hultmark (soprano trombone) and Roger Dean (piano)
Tuesday 12th September
09.00 – 11.00: Paper Session 4: Interfaces
- Chair: Anna Jordanous
- Designing Interaction for Co-creation
- Paolo Girol and Giovanni Albini. Mobile Devices’ Idiomaticity as a Cue for Musical Creativity
- Exploring the Spontaneous Expression of Human Finger-Tapping
- Choosers: Designing a Highly Expressive Algorithmic Music Composition System for Non-Programmers
11.00 – 11.30: Coffee
11.30 – 12.30: Panel Session 2: Musical Creativity & HCI
- Chair: Simon Holland
- Panelists: Matt Bellingham, Andrea Franceschini, Tom Mudd, Chris Nash
12.30 – 14.00: Lunch
13:15: Performances
- Simon Cummings. Cloud Triptych
14.00 – 15.00: Keynote Lecture 1: Representing Creative Rhythms
- Elaine Chew, Queen Mary, University of London
15.00 – 16.00: Panel Session 3: Issues in the Evaluation of Creative Music Systems
- Chair: Róisín Loughran
- Panelists: Anna Jordanous, Stefano Kalonaris, Chris Nash, Bob Sturm
16.00 – 16.30: Coffee
16.30 – 18.00: Paper Session 5: Motivation and Models
- Chair: Allan Jones
- Computational Motivation for Computational Creativity in Improvised Music
- Initial Thoughts on Interactive Generative Music Composition
- Christopher White. A Metrically Based Generative System of Harmony
18.30: Minibus leaves for Conference Dinner from Jennie Lee Building
18.45: Conference Dinner
- The Swan Inn, Broughton Road, Milton Keynes Village, MK10 9AH
Wednesday 13th September
09.30 – 11.00: Paper Session 6: Multi-Media
- Chair: Simon Holland
- Exploration of Emotion-Based Cross-Modal Mappings for Generating Music for Videos
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Towards Dynamic Transitions Between Musical Pieces in Computer Games
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(Some) Challenges in Nonlinear Music Generation
11.00 – 11.30: Coffee
11.30 – 12.30: Panel Session 4: Applying music patterns in generation
- Chair: Iris Yuping Ren
- Panel: Srikanth Cherla, Elaine Chew, Roger Dean, Steven Jan, David Meredith, Tillman Weyde
12.30 – 14.00: Lunch
14.00 – 15.00: Keynote Lecture 2: Evaluating the creativity of computational musicians
- Anna Jordanous, University of Kent
15.00 – 16.00: Panel Session 5: Domain Specific Generative Music: Music in Computer Games
- Chair: Simon Cutajar
- Panel: to be confirmed
16.00 – 16.30: Coffee and farewell
