| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N08049/01 |
| Title: |
COGNITIVELY PERTINENT MODELS AND TOOLS FOR DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY IN MUSICAL DATA |
| Principal Investigator: |
Wiggins, Professor GA |
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| Department: |
Computing |
| Organisation: |
City, University of London |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
18 October 1999 |
Ends: |
17 July 2003 |
Value (£): |
223,451
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Cognitive Science Appl. in ICT |
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| Information Technologies |
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This project aims to investigate, refine and apply a computational theory of music analysis. Computers have great potential to enhance human musical activity, at many levels. Student musicians could benefit from computer accompanists during practice; disabled people could be musically enabled by a musically capable computer -- affecting education and quality of life. Academically, computers could perform analysis on large bodies of music much more quickly than humans, making detailed musical analysis of large scale works tractable for the first time. For any of these applications to be realised, we need a computational theory of musical structure, which is based on cognitive principles. When humans hear music, we pick out repeated or transformed structures, in particular ways. This analytical activity informs our understanding of the music, whether as composer, performer, or listener. For computers to respond musically to musical users, they too must ''understand'' musical structure. This proposal aims to build a prototype implementation of a new model of musical structure, based on general cognitive principles. The model will be applied in the context of a doctoral project in a related area. This proposal forms a first step towards better understanding and simulation of musical behaviour on computers
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http://www.city.ac.uk |