Stefano Cherubin, Clara Borrelli, M. Zanoni, Michele Buccoli, A. Sarti, S. Tubaro
{"title":"Three-Dimensional Mapping of High-Level Music Features for Music Browsing","authors":"Stefano Cherubin, Clara Borrelli, M. Zanoni, Michele Buccoli, A. Sarti, S. Tubaro","doi":"10.1109/MMRP.2019.8665368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMRP.2019.8665368","url":null,"abstract":"The increased availability of musical content comes with the need of novel paradigms for recommendation, browsing and retrieval from large music libraries. Most music players and streaming services propose a paradigm based on content listing of meta-data information, which provides little insight on the music content. In services with huge catalogs of songs, a more informative paradigm is needed. In this work we propose a framework for music browsing based on the navigation into a three-dimensional (3-D) space, where musical items are placed as a 3-D mapping of their high-level semantic descriptors. We conducted a survey to guide the design of the framework and the implementation choices. We rely on state-of-the-art techniques from Music Information Retrieval to automatically extract the high-level descriptors from a low-level representation of the musical signal. The framework is validated by means of a subjective evaluation from 33 users, who give positive feedbacks and highlight promising future developments especially in virtual reality field.","PeriodicalId":441469,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing (MMRP)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130300430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heretic: Modeling Anthony Braxton's Language Music","authors":"Hunter M. Brown, M. Casey","doi":"10.1109/MMRP.2019.8665363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMRP.2019.8665363","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a new system for real-time machine listening within human-machine free improvisation. Heretic uses Anthony Braxton's Language Music system as a grammatical model for contextualizing real-time audio feature data within free improvisation. Heretic hears, recognizes, and organizes unseen musical material from a human improviser into a fluid, coherent, and expressive musical language. Systems similar to Heretic often prioritize agnostic approaches to machine listening by avoiding prior musical knowledge in the system's training stage. However, prominent improvisers such as Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Joe Morris, and Anthony Braxton detail their approaches to improvisation as languages or grammatical systems. These improvisers contextualize the real-time musical materials of their band-mates by applying their formulated grammatical systems to their decision-making processes. Taylor, Coleman, Morris, and Braxton's autonomy and musical creativity are not compromised by using grammatical systems. In regards to human-machine improvisation, Heretic demonstrates that a grammatical approach to machine listening can yield idiosyncratic interactions, full machine autonomy, and novel musical output. This article details a re-imagining of Anthony Braxton's Language Music within the context of machine listening, and an implementation of Language Music within Heretic via SuperCollider's audio feature extraction functionality and Wekinator's multi-layer perceptron neural networks.","PeriodicalId":441469,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing (MMRP)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125173844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2019 International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing (MMRP) MMRP 2019","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/mmrp.2019.00004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mmrp.2019.00004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":441469,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing (MMRP)","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128347258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multilayer Music Representation and Processing: Key Advances and Emerging Trends","authors":"F. Avanzini, L. A. Ludovico","doi":"10.1109/MMRP.2019.8665370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMRP.2019.8665370","url":null,"abstract":"This work represents the introduction to the proceedings of the IstInternational Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing (MMRP19) authored by the Program Co-Chairs. The idea is to explain the rationale behind such a scientific initiative, describe the methodological approach used in paper selection, and provide a short overview of the workshop's accepted works, trying to highlight the thread that runs through different contributions and approaches.","PeriodicalId":441469,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing (MMRP)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127416834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multitask Learning for Polyphonic Piano Transcription, a Case Study","authors":"Rainer Kelz, Sebastian Böck, G. Widmer","doi":"10.1109/MMRP.2019.8665372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMRP.2019.8665372","url":null,"abstract":"Viewing polyphonic piano transcription as a multitask learning problem, where we need to simultaneously predict onsets, intermediate frames and offsets of notes, we investigate the performance impact of additional prediction targets, using a variety of suitable convolutional neural network architectures. We quantify performance differences of additional objectives on the larGe MAESTRO dataset.","PeriodicalId":441469,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing (MMRP)","volume":"351 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132167302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Baratè, L. A. Ludovico, S. Ntalampiras, G. Presti
{"title":"2019 International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing MMRP 2019","authors":"A. Baratè, L. A. Ludovico, S. Ntalampiras, G. Presti","doi":"10.1109/mmrp.2019.8665358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mmrp.2019.8665358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":441469,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing (MMRP)","volume":"98 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114271296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Message from the General Chair MMRP 2019","authors":"Mmrp","doi":"10.1109/mmrp.2019.00005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mmrp.2019.00005","url":null,"abstract":"This workshop has two main goals: first, bringing together the scientific community for an up-to-date discussion about the multilayer music representation topic; secondly, hosting the kickoff meeting of the Working Group for the IEEE1599 standard revision. The latter point implies a number of activities, such as forming and introducing the team, understanding the project background, identifying the main goals to pursue, and agreeing on how to work together effectively.","PeriodicalId":441469,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing (MMRP)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116583968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multimodal Music Information Processing and Retrieval: Survey and Future Challenges","authors":"Federico Simonetta, S. Ntalampiras, F. Avanzini","doi":"10.1109/MMRP.2019.00012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMRP.2019.00012","url":null,"abstract":"Towards improving the performance in various music information processing tasks, recent studies exploit different modalities able to capture diverse aspects of music. Such modalities include audio recordings, symbolic music scores, mid-level representations, motion and gestural data, video recordings, editorial or cultural tags, lyrics and album cover arts. This paper critically reviews the various approaches adopted in Music Information Processing and Retrieval, and highlights how multimodal algorithms can help Music Computing applications. First, we categorize the related literature based on the application they address. Subsequently, we analyze existing information fusion approaches, and we conclude with the set of challenges that Music Information Retrieval and Sound and Music Computing research communities should focus in the next years.","PeriodicalId":441469,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing (MMRP)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125032138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Chen, Weilin Zhang, S. Dubnov, Gus G. Xia, Wei Li
{"title":"The Effect of Explicit Structure Encoding of Deep Neural Networks for Symbolic Music Generation","authors":"K. Chen, Weilin Zhang, S. Dubnov, Gus G. Xia, Wei Li","doi":"10.1109/MMRP.2019.00022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMRP.2019.00022","url":null,"abstract":"With recent breakthroughs in artificial neural networks, deep generative models have become one of the leading techniques for computational creativity. Despite very promising progress on image and short sequence generation, symbolic music generation remains a challenging problem since the structure of compositions are usually complicated. In this study, we attempt to solve the melody generation problem constrained by the given chord progression. In particular, we explore the effect of explicit architectural encoding of musical structure via comparing two sequential generative models: LSTM (a type of RNN) and WaveNet (dilated temporal-CNN). As far as we know, this is the first study of applying WaveNet to symbolic music generation, as well as the first systematic comparison between temporal-CNN and RNN for music generation. We conduct a survey for evaluation in our generations and implemented Variable Markov Oracle in music pattern discovery. Experimental results show that to encode structure more explicitly using a stack of dilated convolution layers improved the performance significantly, and a global encoding of underlying chord progression into the generation procedure gains even more.","PeriodicalId":441469,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing (MMRP)","volume":"220 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128850254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automated Analysis of Postural and Movement Qualities of Violin Players","authors":"Erica Volta, G. Volpe","doi":"10.1109/MMRP.2019.8665374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMRP.2019.8665374","url":null,"abstract":"Learning to playa music instrument is a complex task, requiring continuous practice and the development of sophisticated motor control techniques. The traditional model of music learning is based on a master-apprentice relationship, leading often to a solitary learning process, in which the time spent with the teacher is usually limited to weekly lessons and a long period of self-study is needed. Moreover, a large amount of time passes from the teacher's feedback and the student's proprioceptive perception while studying, requiring a big effort in developing an efficient and healthy technique. In this paper, we present our recent developments concerning an assistive and adaptive technology to help violin students overcoming all these difficulties, and developing their technique and repertoire properly and sefely. In particular, we focus on the multimodal corpus of violin performances which was collected for the purpose, and on the analysis of such data to compute postural and gestural features characterizing the performance under a biomechanical perspective and in terms of movement quality. Analysis is expected to provide students with feedback for reaching a physically accurate performance, maximizing efficiency and minimizing injuries.","PeriodicalId":441469,"journal":{"name":"2019 International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing (MMRP)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115470158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}