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Introduction to Music Informatics: I548/N560, Spring 2011. Instructor: Eric Nichols epnichols@gmail.com http://tinyurl.com/Info548. Some Applications. Pandora: www.pandora.com Shazam : iPhone app sixdegrees.hu/last.fm Musedata / Themefinder : query interface
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Introduction to Music Informatics: I548/N560, Spring 2011 Instructor: Eric Nichols epnichols@gmail.com http://tinyurl.com/Info548
Some Applications • Pandora: www.pandora.com • Shazam: iPhone app • sixdegrees.hu/last.fm • Musedata/Themefinder: query interface • SongSmith: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E
Day 1 • Introductions – who are we? • Intro to course: review class website • Discussion Questions 1: Background survey. Due Wednesday (tomorrow) night.
Rough course outline • Prelude: What is Music Informatics? • Creation and Analysis of Audio • Symbolic representation and analysis of musical scores • Human-assisted MIR • Music perception and cognition, and implications for MIR
What is MIR? • ISMIR Conference: • http://ismir2010.ismir.net/ • ISMIR Conference = International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference • MIR = Music Information Retrieval (or Research!)
What is Music Informatics? • Wikipedia: “Music Informatics (MI) is emerging interdisciplinary research areas dealing with the production, distribution, and consumption of music through technology (especially in digital formats).” • Let’s improve the Wikipedia definition.
Categorizing Music Informatics Topics • Audio / Symbolic • Analysis / Creation / Performance • Individual / Social • Machine Learning / Rule-Based
HW • Discussion Questions 1 due tomorrow • HW update: “7. In your own words: What is your definition of "Music informatics”? • Computing environment setup