Seminar on Music Notation & Computation

30 June 2014

Time: 3:00 - 5:15pm
Venue: Eng. 2.09 Engineering Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS

This free seminar takes place in the series of events organized by the AFIM Work Group on music notation issues. The group objectives is is to make an assessment of the music score mutations, induced by the contemporary practices, and to report on the state of the art of software tools for music notation. The seminar is oriented to notation tools for music computation and performance.

Preliminary program
• 3:00PM - Introduction: technology and research for music notation - AFIM work groupe Les nouveaux espaces de la notation musicale - Dominique Fober (GRAME, Lyon), Pierre Couprie (IReMus, Université de Paris-Sorbonne), Yann Geslin (INA / GRM, Paris), Jean Bresson (IRCAM UMR STMS, Paris)
• 3:20PM - Sequencing and score following for interactive music - Thomas Coffy, Arshia Cont, Jean-Louis Giavitto (IRCAM/INRIA/CNRS - UMR STMS, Paris)
• 3:40PM - Tempo pattern representation for expressive performances - Shengchen Li (Queen Mary University of London)
• 4:10PM - Interactive XVII-XVIII century spanish music notation - David Rizo (Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante)
• 4:30PM - Can score design affect the readability of music? - Arild Stenberg (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge)
• 4:50PM - How can dynamic score markings relate to dynamic changes? - Katerina Kosta (Queen Mary University of London)

Organisation
• Groupe de travail AFIM Les nouveaux espaces de la notation musicale - Jean Bresson, Pierre Couprie, Dominique Fober, Yann Geslin.
• Richard Hoadley, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
• Elaine Chew, Jordan Smith, Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London

More information at
http://notation.afim-asso.org/doku.php/evenements/2014-06-30-qmul