tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902680192412788692024-03-13T11:07:24.768-07:00MuCoaCo | Music Computation and Cognition Labmusic structure and performance researchEChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06239600378524474581noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-10321454093407981652016-10-28T12:59:00.000-07:002016-10-28T13:01:09.205-07:0010.28 - Distributed Immersive Performance Videos Online<div style="display: none;">
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Years ago, at the Integrated Media Systems Center at the University of Southern California, we embarked on a series of <b>Distributed Immersive Performance</b> experiments to determine the effect of network latency on ensemble performance. Building on earlier <a href="http://infolab.usc.edu/imsc/dip/experiment.html" target="_blank">experiments</a>, these were the first of their kind to use rhythmic and fast classical chamber music to test the limits of collaborative performance over the Internet. The results and findings were reported in numerous <a href="http://infolab.usc.edu/imsc/dip/publication.html" target="_blank">publications</a> including ACM TOMM and proceedings of ACM MM, AES, NASM, and CENIC.<br />
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Over the years, these videos have been shown at numerous conferences and invited lectures. In response to requests for these videos, they have been shared online: documentation of the scientific experiments that led to the discovery that tolerance to network latency can be extended by enforcing a common clock, in this case, by delaying players' feedback from their own instruments to lineup with the signal arriving from their partner.<br />
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<b>Setup A: Delays:</b> <a href="https://vimeo.com/187646226" target="_blank">vimeo.com/187646226</a><br />
This video shows the increasing difficulty in synchronizing over increasing delays.<br />
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<b>Setup A: Perspectives:</b> <a href="https://vimeo.com/187647682" target="_blank">vimeo.com/187647682</a><br />
This video shows the difference in experience of delay from different perspectives.<br />
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<b>Setup A: Commentaries:</b> <a href="https://vimeo.com/189241592" target="_blank">vimeo.com/189241592</a><br />
This video shows the players commenting on the experience of playing with delay.<br />
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<b>Setup B:</b> <a href="https://vimeo.com/189272144" target="_blank">vimeo.com/189272144</a><br />
This video shows the solution we came up with---delaying each players' feedback from their own instrument.<br />
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<i>Credits</i><br />
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Elaine Chew, experiment design and analysis<br />
Alexandre R. J. François, software architecture<br />
Christos Kyriakakis, spatial audio<br />
Christos Papadopoulos, audio streaming<br />
Alexander A. Sawchuk, project coordinator<br />
Vely Stoyanova and Ilya Tosheff, performances<br />
Roger Zimmerman, databases<br />
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Anja Volk, systematic musicological analysis<br />
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Carley Tanoue, performance data analysis<br />
Dwipal Desai, databases<br />
Moses Pawar, databases<br />
Rishi Sinha, audio streaming<br />
Will Meyer, filming and video editing<br />
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant no. 0321377 at the Integrated Media Systems Center, an NSF Engineering Research Center at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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<br />EChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06239600378524474581noreply@blogger.comUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA34.0220127 -118.289204633.969380699999995 -118.3698856 34.0746447 -118.2085236tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-65174771486338017082016-09-09T13:39:00.000-07:002016-10-14T13:42:01.859-07:0009.09 - Isaac Schankler Assistant Professor @ Cal Poly Pomona<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody>
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<b><a href="http://isaacschankler.com/" target="_blank">Isaac Schankler</a></b>, affiliated artist / postdoctoral research affiliate at the Music Computation and Cognition Lab at the University of Southern California (USC), and visiting scholar at the Music Performance and Expression Lab at QMUL's Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) has accepted a position as <b>Assistant Professor of Music Industry Studies at Cal Poly Pomona</b> in California, USA.<br />
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<b>Congratulations, Isaac! </b> A composer, accordionist, and electronic musician, Isaac's electronic-acoustic composition <i>Pheremone</i> has received glowing reviews on <a href="http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=132d4b4ddc6866058c25f15f7&id=eeb1a448a7" target="_blank">Fanfare Magazine</a>, his generative game music techniques have been reviewed on <a href="http://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/news/7526563/vr-audio-gamesound-con-los-angeles" target="_blank">Billboard</a> and presented at GameSoundCon, and he is founder and artistic director of <a href="http://www.peopleinsideelectronics.com/" target="_blank">People Inside Electronics</a> in Los Angeles. He is also an erudite writer of opinion pieces for NewMusicBox and was winner of 2013 was a winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism.<br />
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EChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06239600378524474581noreply@blogger.comPoly Vista, Pomona, CA, USA34.0473125 -117.8155424000000334.040733999999993 -117.82562740000003 34.053891 -117.80545740000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-27281501692044195112016-08-01T01:29:00.000-07:002016-10-17T00:04:01.156-07:0008.01 - Ching-Hua Chuan promoted to Associate Professor @ UNF<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><a href="http://www.unf.edu/~c.chuan/Site/Home.html" target="_blank">Ching-Hua Chuan</a>, </b>an alumnus of the Music Computation and Cognition Laboratory at the University of Southern California, has received tenure and been promoted to Associate Professor in the School of Computing at the University of North Florida. As in most institutions in the United States, academics on tenure track in computer science (and most engineering fields) are hired as assistant professors without tenure (in a probationary period), and are evaluated after five years for promotion to associate professor with tenure in the sixth year in a highly competitive process. <b>Congratulations, Ching-Hua!</b><br />
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Ching-Hua is received her PhD from the Department of Computer Science at USC, where she received a Digital Dissertation Award and was elected to Phi Kappa Phi honor society. Her research interests center on artificial intelligence and machine learning, and her projects range from style-specific music harmonization to sign language recognition. She is recipient of a Grace Hopper Celebration Best New Investigator Paper Award, and her work has been featured on Foxnews, MSNBC, the Telegraph, the Miami Herald, and the IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine. A innovative educator, she is also recipient of UNF's Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award and has developed new courses on music informatics and on gaming and mobile app development.<br />
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Read more about Ching-Hua's work at <a href="http://www.unf.edu/~c.chuan" target="_blank">www.unf.edu/~c.chuan</a>.<br />
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MuCoaCo alum, <b><a href="http://www.unf.edu/~c.chuan/Site/Home.html" target="_blank">Ching-Hua Chuan</a></b>, Assistant Professor of Computing at the University of North Florida speaks on Composing with Computers on <i>The Academic Minute</i> with Lynn Pasquerella, President of Mount Holyoke College. The Academic Minute features a different professor each day, giving anecdotes and updates on groundbreaking scientific research.<br />
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Ching-Hua Chuan's segment aired today on WAMC Public Radio in New York and on more than 60 radio stations across the United States. Hear it at:<br />
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Schankler, Isaac, Elaine Chew, and Alexandre R. J. Francois. (2014). Improvising with Digital Auto-scaffolding: How Mimi changes and enhances the creative process. In Newton Lee (ed.): Digital Da Vinci—Computers in Music, 99-125, Springer. ISBN 978-1-4939-0535-5. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0536-2_5.<br />
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<b>Abstract:</b> This chapter poses, and proposes some answers to, questions about the origins and nature of creativity when digital media takes an active role in the music-making process. The discussions are centered on François’ Mimi (Multimodal Interaction for Musical Improvisation) system, which enables a musician to seed the computer with musical ideas and then improvise atop re-combinations of these ideas; the system provides the musician with visual foreknowledge of the machine’s intent and review of the interaction. They extend to the different instantiations of, and extensions to, the Mimi system, which are designed with various interaction nuances in mind, and engender new forms of creativity. We review each Mimi version, from the original blue-and-white silhouette display, to the Scriabin-inspired varicolored panels, to the multi-paneled user-directed Mimi4x. In each scenario, we consider the impact of Mimi on the creative process and the resulting performance; specifically, we describe the interaction between a performer, the composer (when this is different from the performer), and the system, analyzing the techniques used to successfully negotiate a performance with Mimi, and the formal musical structures that result from this interaction.<br />
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MuCoaCo alum Ching-Hua Chuan, now an Assistant Professor of Computing at the University of North Florida, discusses her research on a identifying style in pop/rock music through a multi-modal approach on “UNF On The Record,” a weekly radio show featuring campus life topics and faculty and student research.<br />
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To hear the interview, visit the UNF On The Record radio show's streaming site at <a href="http://www.unf.edu/publicrelations/media_relations/news/radio/2014/Style_identification_in_pop_and_rock_music.aspx" target="_blank">www.unf.edu/publicrelations/media_relations/news/radio/2014/Style_identification_in_pop_and_rock_music.aspx</a><br />
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To learn more about Ching-Hua's work, visit her website at <a href="http://www.unf.edu/~c.chuan/Site/Home.html" target="_blank">www.unf.edu/~c.chuan/Site/Home.html</a>EChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06239600378524474581noreply@blogger.comUniversity of North Florida, 1 University of North Fl Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA30.2700994 -81.50683529999997730.242671899999998 -81.547175799999977 30.2975269 -81.466494799999978tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-85852890389157759162014-03-15T13:41:00.000-07:002014-04-08T13:44:25.723-07:0003.15 - Isaac Schankler & co.'s Depression Quest is XYZZY Interactive Fiction Awards Best Implementation Finalist <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><a href="http://www.depressionquest.com/" target="_blank">Depression Quest</a></b>, an award-winning interactive (non)fiction game about living with depression by Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, and Isaac Schankler, designed to spread awareness about depression, is a Best Implementation finalist for the <a href="http://xyzzyawards.org/?p=261" target="_blank">2013 XYZZY Awards</a>, the equivalent of Academy or Grammy Awards recognizing extraordinary interactive fiction.<br />
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For Depression Quest, Isaac Schankler designed a generative and interactive soundtrack that depends on the player's path through the game. The music includes samples from freesound.org and is inspired by Arvo Pärt, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto, David Kanaga. Click on the square to download Isaac Schankler's soundtrack.<br />
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Isaac Schankler is an alum of both the QMUL <a href="http://mupae.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Music Performance and Expression</a> mini-group at the Centre for Digital Music (visiting artist-in-residence in 2012) and of the USC Music Computation and Cognition Lab (2010-2012), working on and improvising with both Mimi and Mimi4x.EChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06239600378524474581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-17099630771852525562013-10-03T23:51:00.000-07:002014-04-08T13:44:48.020-07:0010.03 - Isaac Schankler wins ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor Award<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.isaacschankler.com/" target="_blank">Isaac Schankler</a>, visiting artist-in-residence 2011-2012, wins an ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor Award for his article “Sounds Heard: Anatomy of a Truth-Bender” on Adele and musical expression, published by <i>New Music Box</i>/New Music USA.<br />
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From the <a href="http://www.ascapfoundation.org/press/2013/1003-deems-taylor-awards.aspx?presentation=foundation" target="_blank">press release</a>: <br />
The Awards were established in 1967 to honor the memory of composer,
critic and commentator Deems Taylor, who died in 1966 after a
distinguished career that included six years as President of ASCAP. The
45th ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor Awards are made possible by the
generous support of ASCAP, The ASCAP Foundation and the Virgil Thomson
Foundation. Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) was one of the great 20th century
composers and music critics. Thomson served as a member of ASCAP's
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The winners of the 45th annual ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor Awards ... will be honored at a special
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ASCAP's New York offices.EChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06239600378524474581noreply@blogger.comOne Lincoln Plaza, 1 Lincoln Square, New York, NY 10023, USA40.770826799999988 -73.98155129999997815.248792299999987 -115.29014529999998 66.292861299999984 -32.672957299999979tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-21684081373940966432012-10-12T21:30:00.000-07:002014-04-08T13:40:08.977-07:0010.08-12 - MuCoaCo Alumni @ ISMIR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Three MuCoaCo alumni - Ching-Hua Chuan, Erdem Unal, and ChangHyun (Daniel) Kim - and two current PhD students - Jordan Smith and Katerina Kosta - attended <a href="http://ismir2012.ismir.net/" target="_blank">ISMIR in Porto</a>, Portugal, this year. The posters presented were as follows:<br />
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Chuan, C. & Chew, E. (2012). Creating Ground Truth for Audio Key Finding: When the Title Key May Not Be the Key. [ <a href="http://ismir2012.ismir.net/event/papers/247-ismir-2012.pdf">pdf</a> ]<br />
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Kosta, K., Marchini, M. & Purwins, H. (2012). Unsupervised Chord-Sequence Generation from an Audio Example [ <a href="http://ismir2012.ismir.net/event/papers/481-ismir-2012.pdf">pdf</a> ]<br />
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Unal, E., Bozkurt, B. & Karaosmanoğlu, M. (2012). N-gram Based Statistical Makam Detection on Makam Music in Turkey Using Symbolic Data [ <a href="http://ismir2012.ismir.net/event/papers/043-ismir-2012.pdf">pdf</a> ]<br />
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EChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06239600378524474581noreply@blogger.comOporto, Portugal41.1650559 -8.60281641.1172414 -8.68178 41.2128704 -8.5238520000000015tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-19955509737278947812012-02-28T07:38:00.001-08:002012-02-29T07:44:44.791-08:0002.28 - New Music Box publishes article by Isaac Schankler<span class="title"><a href="http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/sounds-heard-anatomy-of-a-truth-bender/" rel="bookmark" title="Sounds Heard: Anatomy of a Truth-Bender">Sounds Heard: Anatomy of a Truth-Bender</a></span><br />
February 28, 2012 / By <a href="http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/author/isaac-schankler/" rel="author" title="Posts by Isaac Schankler">Isaac Schankler</a><br />
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<tr><td><a href="http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/sounds-heard-anatomy-of-a-truth-bender/" rel="bookmark" title="Sounds Heard: Anatomy of a Truth-Bender"><img alt="Sounds Heard: Anatomy of a Truth-Bender" class="left" height="110px" src="http://www.newmusicbox.org/wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.newmusicbox.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/21Adele.jpg&w=110&h=110&zc=1&q=100" width="110px" /></a></td><td valign="top">It’s easy to understand the appeal of an article like the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>‘s “Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker,” which purports to explain why Adele’s hit song “Someone Like You” makes people cry. Unfortunately, the article is marred by a number of scientific, musical, and aesthetic misconceptions, some glaring and some more subtle.</td></tr>
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Creativity SRIG sponsored <b><a href="http://creativitysrig.tumblr.com/post/17711978916/creativity-srig-sponsored-jeanne-bamberger-tribute">Jeanne Bamberger tribute issue of VRME</a></b> now available. Message from the editors, <b>S. Alex Ruthman</b> and <b>Gena R. Greher</b>:<br />
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At the 2010 meeting of the Creativity SRIG, we were treated to a keynote presentation by eminent music cognition scholar Jeanne Bamberger. For over 40 years, her research and scholarship in the fields of music cognition, music learning, intuition and creativity has had, and continues to have, a profound international impact within and beyond music-related fields. <br />
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After her presentation, the Creativity SRIG announced a call for submissions to a special tribute issue of Visions of Research in Music Education (VRME) in honor of Jeanne’s work and career. We are thrilled to announce the publication of that tribute issue as <a href="http://www-usr.rider.edu/%7Evrme/v20n1/">Volume 20</a> of <a href="http://creativitysrig.tumblr.com/www-usr.rider.edu/%7Evrme/">Visions of Research in Music Education</a> .<br />
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This special issue of VRME contains 12 feature articles and essays with authors hailing from Australia, Germany, Israel, the UK and the US:<br />
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<b>Editorial</b><br />
Gena R. Greher & Alex Ruthmann - Curiosity, Creativity and Cognition: A Window into Jeanne Bamberger’s Work.<br />
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Howard Gardner - Tribute to Jeanne Bamberger: Pre-eminent Student of Musical Development and Cognition in Our Time.<br />
Gena R. Greher & S. Alex Ruthmann - On Chunking, Simples and Paradoxes: Why Jeanne Bamberger’s Research Matters.<br />
Andrew Brown - Experience Design and Interactive Software in Music Education Research.<br />
Kimberley Lansinger Ankney - Building and Composing upon Musical Knowledge.<br />
Michael P. Downton, Kylie A. Peppler, Adena Portowitz, Jeanne Bamberger, & Eric Lindsay - Composing Pieces for Peace: Using Impromptu to Build Cross-Cultural Awareness.<br />
Jessica Krash - Reminiscence on Studying with Jeanne Bamberger.<br />
Joyce Kouffman - Jeanne Bamberger - Vignettes from 1974-1976.<br />
Wilfred Gruhn - Representations of Music - Neural Foundations and Mental Processes.<br />
Craig Graci - Channeling Bamberger: An Unorthodox Appreciation of Jeanne Bamberger’s work on Musical Development and Musical Understanding.<br />
Elaine Chew - About Time: Strategies of Performance Revealed in Graphs.<br />
Christopher F. Hasty - Learning in Time.<br />
Deborah V. Blair - Do you hear what I hear? Musical Maps and Felt Pathways of Musical Understanding. (a reprint from VRME Volume 11)<br />
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<b>Historical Reprint:</b><br />
Jeanne Bamberger - Developing Musical Structures: Going Beyond the Simples.<br />
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Access to these articles and essays may be found at <a href="http://creativitysrig.tumblr.com/www-usr.rider.edu/%7Evrme">http:www-usr.rider.edu/~vrme</a> .EChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06239600378524474581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-78054466780045415682012-01-17T08:48:00.027-08:002012-03-03T08:40:26.924-08:0001.17 - UCSB and the AllosphereElaine Chew is invited to give an <a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/595M/?p=738">MAT (Media Arts and Technology) seminar</a> on Building Bridges: Creating Sustainable Collaborations Amongst Musicians and Engineers [<a href="http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/595M/?p=738">video</a>] at the University of California, Santa Barbara.<br />
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She gets a tour of the <a href="http://www.allosphere.ucsb.edu/">Allosphere</a> with JoAnn Kuchera-Morin; and catches up with Curtis Roads and Stephen Pope at dinner.<br />
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Her visit is organized by Șӧlen K. DiCicco.EChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06239600378524474581noreply@blogger.comElings Hall, University of California Santa Barbara, Goleta, CA 93117, USA34.4154644 -119.8400227999999934.4149634 -119.84032229999998 34.4159654 -119.83972329999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-8794269696034782962012-01-10T17:45:00.018-08:002012-03-03T01:02:48.369-08:0001.10 - IPAM Largescale Multimedia Search Workshop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rz_jnqZrP28/T1HTpMtKI-I/AAAAAAAACYA/2OLUim6bdR0/s1600/2012.01.10-ucla_ipam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="167" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rz_jnqZrP28/T1HTpMtKI-I/AAAAAAAACYA/2OLUim6bdR0/s400/2012.01.10-ucla_ipam.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><table><tbody>
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MuCoaCo alum, Anja Volk, and Aline Honingh co-hosted a panel on "<i>Bridging the Gap: Computational and Mathematical Approaches in Music Research</i>."<br />
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On the first evening was a dialog with Pierre Boulez and Alain Connes coordinated by Gérard Assayag at Ircam's Espace de Projection.<br />
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We had a group picture with Gérard in the Ircam corridor. From left to right: Isaac Schankler, Anna Huang, Gérard Assayag, Anja Volk, Elaine Chew, Jordan Smith, Aline Honingh.<br />
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Isaac and Jordan presented a paper on "<i>Emergent Formal Structures of Factor Oracle-Driven Musical Improvisations</i>" and Isaac gave a demonstration of <a href="http://www-bcf.usc.edu/%7Emucoaco/MIMI" target="_blank">Mimi</a> on the final day of the conference. The paper is described in this earlier <a href="http://mucoaco.blogspot.com/2011/03/314-article-accepted-to-mcm.html">post</a>.EChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06239600378524474581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-52658504418311817772011-05-22T18:26:00.000-07:002011-06-21T09:24:15.383-07:0005.22 - Light and Power reviews<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ej8koHetXxQ/Tf6mjL0mF_I/AAAAAAAAABI/coxiZhiPbqc/s1600/240918_200574086653607_100953676615649_608074_3312927_o.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620112508403980274" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ej8koHetXxQ/Tf6mjL0mF_I/AAAAAAAAABI/coxiZhiPbqc/s320/240918_200574086653607_100953676615649_608074_3312927_o.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 212px;" /></a><a href="http://www.isaacschankler.com/">Isaac Schankler</a>'s chamber opera, <span style="font-style: italic;">Light and Power</span>, was recently reviewed in <a href="http://missmusicnerd.com/light-and-power-electrifying-opera" target="_blank">Miss Music Nerd</a> and the <a href="http://classical-scene.com/2011/05/22/juventas-light-and-power" target="_blank">Boston Musical-Intelligencer</a>, which wrote:<br />
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<blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">Schankler’s music is <span style="font-weight: bold;">extraordinarily eclectic</span>--where traditional operatic roles may have themes or motifs associated with characters, Schankler attached entire musical idioms to them... <span style="font-weight: bold;">All of the music was masterfully composed.</span></span></blockquote><br />
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Congratulations to all the performers and crew!Isaachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02004835335502543549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-57136373365646008582011-05-17T17:07:00.000-07:002011-05-17T17:18:49.031-07:0005.19 - Light & Power!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tC5Hgg7mQSI/TdMM7kXwBZI/AAAAAAAAByo/ggqd0YPU8aU/s1600/8914449.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tC5Hgg7mQSI/TdMM7kXwBZI/AAAAAAAAByo/ggqd0YPU8aU/s1600/8914449.png" /></a></div>The <a href="http://www.juventasmusic.com/">Juventas New Music Ensemble</a> premieres <a href="http://www.isaacschankler.com/">Isaac Schankler</a>'s opera, <span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Light & Power</i></b>, billed as "a Nikola Tesla World Premiere Opera" and </span>"a Tesla/Edison story" (libretto by Jillian Burcar), in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br />
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The Cambridge YMCA Theater<br />
820 Massachusetts Ave<br />
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Thu, May 19, at 8 pm | Fri, May 20, at 8 pm<br />
Sat, May 21, at 8 pm | Sun, May 22, at 2 pm<br />
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More details <a href="http://www.juventasmusic.com/the-opera.html">here</a>.EChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06239600378524474581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-43076145108354889212011-04-29T10:37:00.001-07:002011-04-29T11:15:37.893-07:0004.29 - Ge Wang Visit (Pictures)Ge Wang's visit to USC began with the <a href="http://www-scf.usc.edu/%7Eise575/e/syllabus" target="_blank">Structure In Music</a> (ISE575/EE675/CSCI575) class, where he chimed in on Huihui Cheng's presentation of a paper on his iPhone Ocarina app, and Samir Sharma's presentation of a paper on the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrK), and gave numerous insights into the development of both the Ocarina and SLOrK.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">ISE PhD Seminar Series:</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i>The World Is Your Stage — </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Social Music-Making </i><br />
<i>on Mobile Phones</i></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Ge WANG, Stanford / Smule<i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;">TUESDAY, April 26, 2011</div><div style="text-align: center;">3:30pm - 4:50pm, RTH 105</div><br />
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<b>Ge Wang</b> visits USC and gives a talk in the ISE PhD Seminar Series. Ge Wang is an Assistant Professor at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), and CTO and Chief Creative Office of Smule, creators of the Ocarina iPhone app.EChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06239600378524474581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-2752075058067734182011-04-17T08:46:00.001-07:002011-04-17T08:51:33.395-07:0004.17 - Isaac and Mimi @ Ussachevsky Memorial Festival (Video)Isaac Schankler's performance with Mimi at the Ussachevsky Memorial Electronic Music Festival (see <a href="http://mucoaco.blogspot.com/2011/02/0204-ussachevsky-memorial-festival.html">Feb 4 post</a>) has been posted on VIMEO: <br />
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<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/22473001" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/22473001">Mimi and Isaac Schankler in Concert at Ussachevsky Memorial Festival</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/pielectro">People Inside Electronics</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>EChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06239600378524474581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-10199883689782288962011-04-16T22:30:00.000-07:002011-04-17T08:36:09.108-07:0004.16 - MicroTextual: music with words | words without music<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DuY0Tzdssh0/TZTSH5fc7wI/AAAAAAAABqM/7MwXZOOxBis/s1600/microtextual.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="251" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DuY0Tzdssh0/TZTSH5fc7wI/AAAAAAAABqM/7MwXZOOxBis/s320/microtextual.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>MicroTextual</b>, a Catalysis Projects presentation curated by Aron Kallay, brings together musicians and artists to create microtonal music, text performance, and performance-integrated sculpture, expanding the points of convergence between modes and disciplines of artmaking.<br />
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MicroTextual will present the premiere of <i>Honey, Milk and Blood</i> for soprano, women's chorus, and electronics: a collaboration between composer and MuCoaCo artist-in-residence <a href="http://www.isaacschankler.com/">Isaac Schankler</a>, artist Kim Ye, and writer Jillian Burcar. Also featuring works and premieres by Harry Partch, Cat Lamb, Jeffrey Holmes, Bill Alves, Quintan Ana Wikswo and David Rosenboom.<br />
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SATURDAY, APRIL 16 8:00 PM • MIMODA STUDIO<br />
5772 W. Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90019<br />
$15/$10 online or at the door<br />
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For more information, call (818)397-6954 or go to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/catalysisprojects.com">catalysisprojects.com</a>.Isaachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02004835335502543549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-24667277703964727782011-04-07T01:35:00.000-07:002011-04-07T14:01:47.492-07:0004.07 - Isaac Schankler at Electronics Live!Today at <b>Electronics Live!</b>, Isaac Schankler presents and performs with The Harvester, a new interactive audio installation based on <a href="http://www-bcf.usc.edu/%7Emucoaco/MIMI">Mimi</a> (Multimodal Interaction for Musical Improvisation), a system that allows humans and machines to create improvised music together, designed and implemented using François' SAI framework. For this installation, Isaac Schankler creates a new sonic environment for Mimi, which helps it interpret, synthesize and resample audio information.<br />
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This installation will also feature a special guest appearance by the <b>BoeBot Music Ensemble</b>, created by Keith DeRuiter, Isaac Schankler and Elaine Chew.<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gS8BzAq0iTQ/TZ14TrQwkdI/AAAAAAAAAAM/qndvVmPS2zg/s1600/electronics01_36h0x5lj3_400.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592758591689888210" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gS8BzAq0iTQ/TZ14TrQwkdI/AAAAAAAAAAM/qndvVmPS2zg/s320/electronics01_36h0x5lj3_400.jpg" style="display: block; height: 271px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a>Electronics Live! is the third CARL residency hosted by the Culver Center. Creating an environment that is equal parts sound art installation, live music performance, and media fair expo, composers Jason Heath and Robert Giracello convert the atrium floor of the Culver Center into an interactive media fair, demonstrating a variety of approaches to interactive technologies in music and the arts, and engaging the public with hands-on experience of these technologies in a fun and experimental environment. <br />
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THU, April 7, 6-9 PM • <a href="http://www.culvercenter.ucr.edu/">Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts</a><br />
3834 Main St, Riverside CA <span class="pp-headline-item pp-headline-address" dir="ltr">92501 • </span>FREE admission (Info: 951-827-3755)Isaachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02004835335502543549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-67347901512309270782011-04-06T22:21:00.000-07:002011-04-08T18:33:34.748-07:0004.06 - Eran Egozy Visit (Pictures)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--KyFc4-ySyc/TZ-z6Nkuu5I/AAAAAAAABtc/QeEDmZJJXxA/s1600/2011.04.06-isaac_and_mimi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--KyFc4-ySyc/TZ-z6Nkuu5I/AAAAAAAABtc/QeEDmZJJXxA/s320/2011.04.06-isaac_and_mimi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Eran Egozy met with students in the MuCoaCo Lab at 3pm. Isaac Schankler gave a demonstration of Mimi, including a preview of Mimi making music with the BoeBots — the BoeBots are programmed by freshman Keith DeRuiter.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1Ke4Pw4xKE4/TZ-z1yXd5WI/AAAAAAAABtY/VbUfyZXYxws/s1600/2011.04.06-boebot_music.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="135" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1Ke4Pw4xKE4/TZ-z1yXd5WI/AAAAAAAABtY/VbUfyZXYxws/s400/2011.04.06-boebot_music.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Informal Q&A with Eran took place at Tutor Cafe. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KO9G-KzL0Ak/TZ-z9ypu6QI/AAAAAAAABtg/od5Lc94QLeQ/s1600/2011.04.06-eran_at_tutor_cafe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="273" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KO9G-KzL0Ak/TZ-z9ypu6QI/AAAAAAAABtg/od5Lc94QLeQ/s400/2011.04.06-eran_at_tutor_cafe.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>At the formal event, Eran performed two movements from Poulenc's Clarinet Sonata with Elaine Chew, and spoke about the founding of Harmonix Music Systems, its humble beginnings, the success of Guitar Hero, and the growth of the company.<br />
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CTO, Harmonix Music Systems<br />
Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 7pm - 8pm<br />
Parkside Performance Cafe<br />
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Eran Egozy, CTO of <a href="http://www.harmonixmusic.com/" target="_blank">Harmonix Music Systems</a> (creators of Guitar Hero and Rock Band) visits USC and the MuCoaCo Lab, and gives a presentation at the Parkside Performance Cafe that includes a performance of Poulenc's Clarinet Sonata (with Elaine Chew).<br />
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Click on event poster on the left for Eran's bio.<br />
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For more information about Eran and Harmonix, see the following posts:<br />
<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/secretlife/scientists/eran-egozy" target="_blank">PBS: NOVA: Eran Egozy: Game Developer</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/10/02/rundown-102" target="_blank">Here & Now: The Secret Life of Eran Egozy</a><br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/magazine/16beatles-t.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">NYTimes: While My Guitar Gently Beeps</a>EChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06239600378524474581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-25242700901525641732011-04-05T03:42:00.001-07:002011-04-07T10:34:21.024-07:0004.05 - KatieAnna Wolf receives NSF Graduate Fellowship<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4SmvWy9HoxE/TPU0GshF5FI/AAAAAAAABi0/z392U5W6EEk/s1600/katie-lab2-shrunk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4SmvWy9HoxE/TPU0GshF5FI/AAAAAAAABi0/z392U5W6EEk/s320/katie-lab2-shrunk.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Ewolfx265" target="_blank">KatieAnna Wolf</a>, DREU fellow at the MuCoaCo Lab in summer 2010, has received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Katie will be commencing Computer Science PhD studies at Princeton in the Fall.<br />
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Katie was also a 2010 CRA Outstanding Undergraduates Award Finalist — see the <a href="http://mucoaco.blogspot.com/2010/11/1130-katie-is-cra-outstanding.html">Nov 30 blogpost</a>.EChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06239600378524474581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890268019241278869.post-3910679320244622072011-03-31T21:28:00.000-07:002011-04-03T16:27:16.115-07:0003.31 - Musical Patois — reflections of language in music<div style="color: #999999;"><b>Visions and Voices: the USC Arts and Humanities Initiative</b></div><br />
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<b>Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)</b></div><div id="location"><br />
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</tbody></table><b>Musical Patois</b> is the result of a unique collaboration among a neuroscientist, a composer, a performer/engineer and a computer scientist. This event will boldly explore and transgress the boundaries between science, music, technology and art. The event is inspired by the research of neuroscientists Aniruddh Patel and John Iversen and composer Jason Rosenberg, which demonstrated that the instrumental music of British and French composers reflects the rhythm and intonation of their native languages. Patel, along with composer Peter Child, pianist-engineer Elaine Chew and computer scientist Alexandre François, will examine the influence of language on music through an evening of scientific presentation, musical performance, interactive visualization and lively conversation.<br />
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Organized by Elaine Chew (Engineering) and Alexandre François (Engineering).<br />
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More information at the <a href="http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/873381" target="_blank">Visions and Voices website</a>.EChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06239600378524474581noreply@blogger.com