A new and fast growing field is internationally developing throughout computer science departments, acoustics engineering laboratories and conservatory laboratories, which from a computer science point of view is termed Musical Informatics. The motivation for research in this new field lies in the cross section of the fields of computer science, computational acoustics and music. The latter have been studied for thousands of years, and a natural understanding of instruments in terms of their audible capabilities and treatment in playing situations have been obtained in a humaniora sense.
Computer science as such have in recent decades become interested in describing, modelling and coding various sort of data, text, images, sound and music, both from a general viewpoint of data representation and data handling, and from specialised and application oriented viewpoints. One such minor application is the culture-breaking field of computer music; another major and intensively expanding field is the vast industry, concerned with computer assisted music performance and record production industry. Yet other applications are the numerous musical machines, available as commercial products for homes and public organisations throughout society.
The colloquium will describe aspects of the growing field of Musical Informatics through examples of ongoing research, performed by the colloquium group:
Host: Kim Skak Larsen
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