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Opportunities for a Cultural Specific Approach in the Computational Description of Music
| Title | Opportunities for a Cultural Specific Approach in the Computational Description of Music |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2012 |
| Conference Name | 2nd CompMusic Workshop |
| Authors | Serra, X. |
| Pagination | 1-4 |
| Conference Start Date | 12/07/2012 |
| Conference Location | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Abstract | The current research in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is showing the potential that the Information Technologies can have in music related applications. A major research challenge in that direction is how to automatically describe/annotate audio recordings and how to use the resulting descriptions to discover and appreciate music in new ways. But music is a complex phenomenon and the description of an audio recording has to deal with this complexity. For example, each music culture has specificities and emphasizes different musical and communication aspects, thus the musical recordings of each culture should be described differently. At the same time these cultural specificities give us the opportunity to pay attention to musical concepts and facets that, despite being present in most world musics, are not easily noticed by listeners. In this paper we present some of the work done in the CompMusic project, including ideas and specific examples on how to take advantage of the cultural specificities of different musical repertoires. We will use examples from the art music traditions of India, Turkey and China. |
| preprint/postprint document | http://hdl.handle.net/10230/20495 |
