Workshop on Current Research Directions in Computer Music

Music Generation Panel

The abundance of music generation tools and systems is well documented. These range from AI-based systems for autonomous generation of musical ideas to conventional design tools, for example, for designing and rendering of sounds. However, emerging de facto standards have been short lived, generating frustration rather than satisfaction. This panel will focus on why this is so, i.e., the extent to which accumulated results of this effort fail to satisfy the aspirations of composers. Three specific aspects of music generation will be considered. These are:

1. Representation and contents of the product, i.e., the composition;
2. The nature of and support for the process, i.e., creativity and composition; roles of artificial intelligence;
3. Representation and application of individual and community know-how, including the use of repositories and archives to accumulate a history of compositional techniques used, and the use of the Web to provide open access to community knowledge.

Each aspect will be considered from philosophical, conceptual and technological perspectives. The aim is to identify open questions and unsatisfied requirements that technology has the potential to address. Many of these are partly evident in ongoing research in this area. The outcome will form the basis of a proposed scientific agenda for future composition systems research.

- Members:
The members of the Music Generation panel will be:

Roger B. Dannenberg (Carnegie Mellon University,Pittsburgh, USA)
Barry Eaglestone (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Eduard Resina (IUA-Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain)
Jens Arnspang (DIKU-University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Chair:
Henkjan de Honing (NICI-University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

 

 

 

Barcelona, Nov 15-16-17, 2001
Audiovisual Institute, Pompeu Fabra University