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Somax2 Workshop and Concert at Università di Pisa

Marco Fiorini has been invited to lead a workshop at Università di Pisa on 4 November 2024, showcasing REACH advancements in Music Improvisation with Co-Creative Agents. The workshop focused on Somax2, REACH co-creative environment for music improvisation, and saw a wide number of students from Università di Pisa interacting for the first time with it.A […]

Publications

Variation versus bouclage. L’improvisation est-elle soluble dans l’électro ?

Marc ChemillierFranck Jedrzejewski; Carlos Lobo; Antonia Soulez. Écrire comme composer. Le rôle des diagrammes, Éditions Delatour, pp.77-90, 2021, Musique/Philosophie, 9782752104267 Read full publication. Abstract: Les interfaces visuelles des logiciels musicaux sont des diagrammes dans un sens graphique, mais ce sont aussi des diagrammes dans un sens plus conceptuel car ils déterminent une certaine manière de […]

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Le langage harmonique d’Hermeto Pascoal et son apprentissage par une intelligence artificielle

By Marc Chemillier, Jean-Pierre Cholleton. Read full publication. Abstract: Le langage harmonique d’Hermeto Pascoal et son apprentissage par une intelligenceartificielle. Conversation avec Jovino Santos Neto. Jovino Santos Neto a été le pianiste du groupe d’Hermeto Pascoal de 1977 à 1992. Depuis, il estresté le dépositaire informel du patrimoine artistique de ce grand musicien brésilien. A […]

Software

The Application of Somax2 in the Live-Electronics Design of Roberto Victório’s Chronos IIIc

By William Teixeira, Marco Fiorini, Mikhail Malt, Gérard Assayag Musica Hodie, 2024, 24, ⟨10.5216/mh.v24.78611⟩DOI : 10.5216/mh.v24.78611 Read full publication. Abstract: This article details the development of a computational patch designed for real-time processing in the composition of Chronos IIIc, originally written by Brazilian composer Roberto Victório for solo cello. In this version, the piece incorporates […]

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Deriving Representative Structure Over Music Corpora

By Ilana Shapiro, Ruanqianqian Huang, Zachary Novack, Cheng-I Wang, Hao-Wen Dong, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Shlomo Dubnov, Sorin Lerner. Read full publication. Abstract: Western music is an innately hierarchical system of interacting levels of structure, from fine-grained melody to high-level form. In order to analyze music compositions holistically and at multiple granularities, we propose a unified, hierarchical […]

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Microphone-based Data Augmentation for Automatic Recognition of Instrumental Playing Techniques

Paper written by Nicolas Brochec*, Tsubasa Tanaka*, and Will Howie*† has been presented at the ICMC2024 (International Computer Music Conference 2024). * Tokyo University of the Arts† Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Full publication Abstract: Within existing research on the automatic classification of musical instrument playing techniques, few available datasets include enough playing […]

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The corpus’ body. Embodied Interaction from Machine-Learning in Human-Machine Improvisation.

Article by Pierre Saint-Germier (CNRS, STMS – IRCAM), Clément Canonne (CNRS, STMS – IRCAM) and Marco Fiorini (STMS – IRCAM, Sorbonne Université, CNRS) has been accepted for the AIMC2024 Conference (The International Conference on AI and Musical Creativity, 9-11 September 2024, Oxford, UK) Read the full paper Abstract: Research in Embodied Music Cognition suggests that […]

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What Are « Good » Rhythms? Generating Rhythms Based on the Properties Set Out in The Geometry of Musical Rhythm

By Paul Lascabettes, Isabelle Bloch. Mathematics and Computation in Music, Jun 2024, Coimbra, Portugal. pp.45-57. Read full publication. Abstract: We propose in this article to generate good rhythms from geometric properties. This approach is based on the work by Toussaint, who investigated the properties that make a “good” rhythm good in his book The Geometry […]