Leeds Met Music Technology Research and Information

Conference Announcement: NIME 2008

2007-09-10T14:29:00.000Z

Announcement of the
8th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
5 - 7 June 2008, Casa Paganini - InfoMus Lab, DIST, Università degli Studi di Genova

Deadlines for paper submissions are not yet known, but it be good to keep the date of the conference next year in the calendar.

Digital Music Research Network Conference

2007-07-06T08:44:00.000Z

This weekend, from 7.July - 8.July, the Digital Music Research Network Summer Conference takes place at
Leeds Metropolitan University, organised by members of Innovation North Ian Gibson, Adam Stansbie, and Nikos Stavropoulos.

Ethnography of Studio Production

2007-02-21T12:02:00.000Z

For anyone interested in the art of record production (now there's something to get philosophical over) there is a new on-line journal available at
http://www.artofrecordproduction.com

It is early days, but there are some interesting articles appearing and it may be of interest to colleagues involved in music production. There seems to be an emerging literature on the idea of production being an 'art' form and I suspect that the debate will gather some momentum over the next few years.

Bob Davis

Funding for EU project - partners are wanted

2007-02-07T21:14:00.000Z

Hi,

the EU Framework 7 (FP-7) calls have been issued on 22. December, with the first deadlines for proposals in March / April.

There are consortia who are looking for partners - and I came across the following:
Culturally Related Intelligent Music Processing (CRIMP)
http://www.ideal-ist.net/Countries/UK/PS-UK-310

Is this topic something of interest to any of you?

Cheers,
Reinhold

4th Int. Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity

2007-01-31T10:04:00.000Z

Here is the text of an email I got yesterday - any work you may want to present there?

Apologies for cross-posting. Please help forward this announcement
to those who you think might be interested. Thank you.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
4th INTERNATIONAL JOINT WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY

Goldsmiths' College, University of London
London, UK, 17-19 June 2007

---> Submission deadline: 17 March

website: http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/isms/CC07/

The Program Committee of the 4th International Joint Workshop on
Computational Creativity invites submissions of technical and
position papers. The workshop will be held at Goldsmiths,
University of London, UK, on 17-19 June 2007.

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Workshop Objectives
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The aim of the workshop is to facilitate the exchange of ideas on
the topic of computational creativity. We aim to bring together
people from AI, Cognitive Science and related areas such as
Psychology, Philosophy and the Arts who research questions related
to the notion of creativity with respect to computers. The workshop
will address issues such as how we assess creativity in computers,
how computers can be used to enhance human creativity, and how we
can write creative software. We aim for papers on various frameworks
for computational creativity to be presented at the workshop, and
for the applications of computational creativity to the sciences,
creative industries and arts to be showcased. The workshop will
provide a forum for identifying trends and opportunities for research
on creativity and promising practices concerning the development of
creative systems. In addition, we will organise a "show and tell"
session, which will be devoted to demonstrations of systems exhibiting
behaviour which would be deemed creative in humans.

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Topics
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Original contributions are solicited in all areas related to Creative
Systems, including but not limited to:
- Computational models of creativity
- Cognitive models of creativity
- Metrics, frameworks and formalizations for the evaluation of
creativity in computational systems
- Computational tools for supporting creativity
- Specific applications to music, language and the arts, to
architecture and design, to scientific discovery, to education
and to entertainment
- Philosophical discussions of computational creativity
- Detailed system descriptions of creative systems, including
engineering difficulties faced, example sessions and artefacts
produced, and applications of the system

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Important Dates
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March 17, 2007 Submission deadline
April 21, 2007 Authors' Notification
May 19, 2007 Deadline for final camera-ready copies

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Submission Requirements
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Authors should produce their papers according to the LaTeX format
which will be posted shortly on the workshop web site. Papers should
be no longer than eight pages; longer papers will not be reviewed. All
submissions will be reviewed in terms of quality, impact and relevance
to the area of computational creativity.

Contributions will be subject to anonymous, blind peer review:
reviewers will not be aware of the identities of the authors. This
requires that authors exercise some care not to identify themselves
in their contributions. Authors will receive feedback in the form of
reviewers' comments.

All Submissions will be made by electronic means, in postscript or PDF
format. Detailed instructions about the submission procedure will be
available on the workshop web site soon.

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Previous events
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This workshop is the first completely autonomous edition of the series
of International Joint Workshops on Computational Creativity that were
held in association with other major events:

IJWCC 2004, Madrid, Spain, ECCBR'2004
IJWCC 2005, Edinburgh, UK, IJCAI'2005
IJWCC 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy, ECAI'2006
This joint series results from two previous streams of events that
have, since 1997, solidified and added rigour to the computational
treatment of creative processes. These events have been symposia and
workshops associated with AISB 99, AISB 00, ICCBR 01, AISB 01, ECAI 02,
AISB 02, IJCAI 03, AISB 03 and LREC 04.

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Workshop Chairs
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Amilcar Cardoso
Center for Informatics and Systems (CISUC)
University of Coimbra, Portugal
http://www.dei.uc.pt/~amilcar

Geraint A. Wiggins
Centre for Cognition, Computation and Culture
Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK
http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas02gw/
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Local Organising Committee
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Oliver Bown
Geraint A. Wiggins

Intelligent Sound and Music Systems Group
Centre for Cognition, Computation & Culture
Department of Computing
Goldsmiths' College, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW, United Kingdom

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Program Committee (to be extended)
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John Barnden (University of Birmingham, UK)
Oliver Bown (Goldsmiths College, London, UK)
David Brown (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Simon Colton (Imperial College London, UK)
John Collomosse (University of Bath, UK)
Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Paulo Gomes (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Robert Keller (Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, USA)
João Leite (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Jesús López (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
Penousal Machado (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Lorenzo Magnani (University of Pavia, Italy)
Diarmuid O'Donoghue (National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland)
Marcus Pearce (Goldsmiths College, London, UK)
Alison Pease (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Francisco C. Pereira (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Sarah Rauchas (Goldsmiths College, London, UK)
Graeme Ritchie(University of Aberdeen, UK)
Rob Saunders (University of Sydney, Australia)
Oliviero Stock (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica,
Trento, Italy)
Tony Veale (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Gerhard Widmer (University of Linz, Austria)

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Prof. Geraint A. Wiggins, MA (Cantab.), PhD (Edin.), MIEE, MBCS
Professor of Computational Creativity,
Intelligent Sound and Music Systems Group
Centre for Cognition, Computation & Culture/Department of Computing,
Goldsmiths' College, University of London,
New Cross, London SE14 6NW, United Kingdom.
Vox Humana: (020) 7919 7861; Fax Machina: (020) 7919 7853

Conference listings in music and other opportunities

2007-01-26T16:04:00.000Z

Hi,

For those of you who don't know about it and are interested in conferences, the Royal Holloway Conferences in Music page is a gold mine of references and opportunities.

For residencies and other opportunities in music and the arts, check out Transartists. It's a fantastic source for residencies, festivals, competitions, calls for work, and funding.

Rees

My first post here

2007-01-26T10:33:00.000Z

Hey, this works - great!

There is another dormant blog - which I set up for the whole Centre of Creative Technology (but which has not been posted yet to anyone, so nobody knows anbout it):
http://cctr.blogspot.com.

That URL may still change, depending on what will be decided for the centre name. Topics there (co come): general Creative Tech issues.

Cheers,
Reinhold

2007-01-26T10:13:00.001Z

Hi Guys...
This week Stans and Stavers took part in a concert at City University in London.. and they almost missed the train back..Also leeds met was represented by a three strong team at Space_Net event at York Universoity. We heard some intersting stuff and Dave and Richard listen to some boring stuff while I was taking a nap...Met a guy who works with a small company that develops spatial audio for mobile phones ?!? .. and it works ! .. What's this cricket business anwyay?and why do both teams wear white??

Nikos

First Reply

2007-01-26T09:29:00.000Z

Hi Rees, this is a great idea. Just trying it out!

Sound and urban space

2007-01-25T16:30:00.000Z

This is an interesting paper from an Australian researcher discussing the historical perception and semiotics of urban sound.

Sounds of the city: the soundscape of early modern European towns
DAVID GARRIOCH

First post

2007-01-25T16:06:00.001Z

Hi,

We can use this blog to exchange research and events.

Of course cricketing information such as the following is also completely acceptable :)

Rees.

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"Buchanan, who will step down after the World Cup, said the development of Australia's bowlers was being held back by the poor performances of the opposition batsmen, who have flopped repeatedly in the series so far. He suggested the Australians had not had a chance to showcase their skills ahead of the Caribbean tournament in March and April.

"Our ability to deliver yorkers, length balls, bouncers, variety balls [such as slower balls, cutters etc] has not been placed under constant scrutiny by an opposition batting line-up," he wrote.

"This testing of our bowlers' response to situations when we have lost control [temporarily hopefully] is not happening. In essence, the batting efforts of our opposition are not assisting the development of our bowlers' one-day skills and the decision making that accompanies being placed under the microscope of competition."

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