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Page 1 of 16 PROGRAM, SCHEDULE & PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR NORDPLUS COURSE: MUSIC INFORMATICS, PERFORMANCE AND AESTHETICS. MARCH 29 – APRIL 4, 2009, ESBJERG, DENMARK. ________________________________________________________ SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 2009 Informal Gathering All course participants who already are in Esbjerg are welcome to come to the lobby of the CabInn, Skolegade 14, 6700 Esbjerg at 19.00, where we will meet and then go out to dinner together. Bowling-and-dinner has been moved to Monday evening. Phone and homepage for CabInn: (+45) 75 18 16 00. http://www.cabinn.com/esbjerg/esbjerg.html ________________________________________________________ MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2009 TODAY, THE FIRST DAY, CYNTHIA IS ASKING EVERYONE TO BE IN THE LOBBY OF THE CABINN, SKOLEGADE 14, AT 08:15. WE WILL WALK TOGETHER TO THE BUSSTOP CALLED “SKOLEGADE VED TORVET” AND TAKE BUS #6 TO SDU. WHEN WE GET TO SDU, THERE WILL BE TIME TO SHOW THE GROUP WHERE EVERYTHING IS LOCATED DURING OUR MONDAY, TUESDAY AND FRIDAY SESSIONS. FOR GENERALLY USEFUL INFORMATION ON BUS CONNECTIONS FROM THE CENTER OF ESBJERG TO SDU AND AALBORG UNIVERSITY IN ESBJERG (ACROSS THE STREET FROM EACH OTHER), AS WELL AS A MAP, PLEASE SEE PAGES 13-16. _______________________________________________________ Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics: A Post-Millennial Program for the Aesthetics of Music and Sound – Cynthia M. Grund Monday, March 30, 2009 from 09.00 to 11.00 Location: Syddansk Universitet (SDU), Lokale 1a&b, Niels Bohrs Vej 9, Esbjerg Cynthia M. Grund (FT/fil.dr) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Education and the Study of Religions, SDU; Director of the Cross-Disciplinary Network for Studies of Music and Meaning (NTSMB); Founder and Editor-in-Chief of JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning; Research Director for The Aesthetics of Music and Sound – Cross- Disciplinary Interplay between The Humanities, Technology and Musical Practice (of which several of the Danish participants in NNIMIPA are members); and Network Coordinator for NNIMPA. Grund is has worked on the relationships between metaphor, music and logic and is currently absorbed in studies of the ways in which the use of IT-technology to analyze and model music revitalizes traditional music aesthetics. An action-packed introduction to the wonderful world of NNIMIPA. well, that's Søren R. Frimodt-Møller's version of the title of my talk, but I like it, so it stays! Actually, there is a lot of action in the NNIMIPA world, and it IS a wonderful world. Organized in 2007. NNIMIPA is the result of a several-year-long odyssey of network-building starting with NTSMB, the Network for Cross-Disciplinary Studies of Music and Meaning, in 2001 - please see http://www.ntsmb.dk - continuing through the founding of The Journal of Music and Meaning in 2003 - please see http://www.musicandmeaning.net - and onward through 2006, when the SDU research program The Aesthetics of Music and Sound – Cross- Disciplinary Interplay between The Humanities, Technology and Musical Practice, a joint effort involving SDU, Aalborg University in Esbjerg and The Academy of Music and Music Communication, Page 2 of 16 PROGRAM, SCHEDULE & PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR NORDPLUS COURSE: MUSIC INFORMATICS, PERFORMANCE AND AESTHETICS. MARCH 29 – APRIL 4, 2009, ESBJERG, DENMARK. ________________________________________________________ Esbjerg http://www.sdu.dk/~/media/Files/Om_SDU/Institutter/Ifpr/Forskningsprogrammer/Musikk en_Cynthia.ashx was established. 1. For insight into the reasons for establishing networks concerned with Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics - and for the establishment of a platform for a post-millenial aesthetics of music and sound - please see: (2007) Grund, Cynthia M “How Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval Interface with Music- And-Meaning Studies: Overview of Panelists’ Suggestions for Discussion Topics.”; Proceedings of the 2007 International Computer Music Conference, August 27-31, 2007. Copenhagen, Denmark. San Francisco and Copenhagen: The International Computer Music Association and Re:New - Digital Arts Forum, pp. 133-136. ISBN: 0-9713192-5- 1. http://www.cynthiamgrund.dk/CMGrundPanelPaper_ICMC07-CMMR-2007-final.pdf (2006b) Grund, Cynthia M. “A Philosophical Wish List for Research in Music Information Retrieval.” (Poster) ISMIR 2006: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. Roger Dannenberg, Kjell Lemström and Adam Tindale, eds. Victoria: University of Victoria, pp. 383-384. ISBN-13: 978-1-55058-349-6; ISBN-10:1-55058-349- 2. http://ismir2006.ismir.net/PAPERS/ISMIR06149_Paper.pdf. (2006a) Grund, Cynthia M. “Interdisciplinarity and Computer Music Modeling and Information Retrieval: When Will the Humanities Get into the Act.” Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, LNCS 3902. Richard Kronland-Martinet, Thierry Voinier and Sølvi Ystad, eds. Berlin-Heidelberg- New York: Springer Verlag, pp. 265-273. ISBN-10: 3-540-34027-0; ISBN-13: 978-3-540-34027-0. (Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11751069_24 with institutional access) (2005b) Grund, Cynthia M. “Double Jeopardy: The Interdisciplinary Study of Music and Meaning:” “Viewpoint” in Danish Yearbook of Musicology, Vol. 32, 2004 pp. 9-14. ISBN: 87-88328-23- 6; http://www.cynthiamgrund.dk/FromDYM2004.pdf (2005a) Grund, Cynthia M. “Music Information Retrieval, Memory and Culture: Some Philosophical Remarks.” Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. Joshua D. Reiss and Geraint A. Wiggins, eds. London: Queen Mary, University of London, pp. 8-12. ISBN: 0-9551179-0-9. (For ISMIR2005 online proceedings, please see http://ismir2005.ismir.net/proceedings/index.html) 2. As a short introduction to the development of virtual venues for music performance attended by avatar audiences, a demonstration of SDU-SL, the campus of the University of Southern Denmark in Second Life, will be provided. (This also provides a nice prequel to David’s talk!) If you would like to experience SDU-SL directly, just have your avatar visit http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bifrost/89/128/33. Should you prefer just to read about some of the - non-musical - goings on in SDU-SL, please see: (2008b) Grund, Cynthia M. and Jesper Pilegaard. “Percipitopia: An Educational and Research Tool Utilizing Digital Content Creation and Textual Reappropriation in Second Life.” Paper accepted on the basis of a peer-reviewed abstract and presented by Grund and Pilegaard at Digital Content Creation: Creativity, Competence, Critique:The second international DREAM conference, Page 3 of 16 PROGRAM, SCHEDULE & PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR NORDPLUS COURSE: MUSIC INFORMATICS, PERFORMANCE AND AESTHETICS. MARCH 29 – APRIL 4, 2009, ESBJERG, DENMARK. ________________________________________________________ September 18-20, 2008 University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. Electronically published at http://www.dreamconference.dk/nyheder/Grund%2C%20Cynthia%20M.%20et%20al..pdf. (2008a) Grund, Cynthia M., Rasmus Blok and Jesper Pilegaard. “Perception and Reality in - and out - of Second Life: Second Life as a Tool for Philosophical Reflection and Instruction at the University of Southern Denmark.” Paper accepted on the basis of a peer-reviewed abstract and presented by Blok at the European University Information Systems Organisation conference EUNIS2008: VISION IT - Vision for IT in Higher Education, June 24 - 27, 2008, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Electronically published at http://www.eunis.dk/papers/p10.pdf. ISBN for electronic publication: 978-87-91234-58-3; ISBN for printed publication: 978-87-91234-56-9. ________________________________________________________ Music Perception - Kristoffer Jensen Monday, March 30, 2009 from 11.00 to 13.00 Location: Syddansk Universitet (SDU), Lokale 1a&b, Niels Bohrs Vej 9, 6700 Esbjerg Kristoffer Jensen (MS, PhD) is an Associate Professor within the Medialogy Department at Aalborg University at Esbjerg and an expert on computer music modeling, Jensen is also interested in the challenges posed by the use of autonomous agents in music production. Jensen is a driving force behind re:new – Digital arts forum http://www.re-new.dk. The combined knowledge of sounds used in music and the capabilities of the hearing system is here presented in order to show the implications for music perception. Sounds, starting from a pure tone, is used to show models for loudness, pitch, dissonance/consonance, and timbre (2), among other things. Music examples is given together with measurements from auditory models to show how these auditory features react to music. Examples of how the understanding of the auditory features can be used in music creative processes is given. Finally, examples of music visualization (1) that can assist in solfege is given. References: Loudness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness Pitch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(music) Consonance/Dissonance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonance Timbre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbre For the more technically inclined (1) Jensen, K., Multiple scale music segmentation using rhythm, timbre and harmony, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special issue on Music Information Retrieval Based on Signal Processing. 2006. Available online: http://www.aaue.dk/~krist/papers/eurasip05_segm.pdf Page 4 of 16 PROGRAM, SCHEDULE & PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR NORDPLUS COURSE: MUSIC INFORMATICS, PERFORMANCE AND AESTHETICS. 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