Schedule

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
June 22 June 23 June 24 June 25
9.30 9.30 9.30 9.30
REGISTRATION KEYNOTE:
ANDRÉE EHRESMANN		 KEYNOTE:
EMILIA GÓMEZ		 KEYNOTE:
GE WANG
10.45 10.30 10.30 10.30
INTRODUCTIONS BREAK BREAK BREAK
11.00 11.00 11.00 11.00
KEYNOTE:
GARETH LOY		 POST-TONAL MUSIC ANALYSIS MUSIC GENERATION SCALES
12.00 12.00 12.30 12.30
LUNCH CONCERT:
BLOOD & TANGO		 LUNCH LUNCH
13.00 13.00 13.30 13.30
GEOMETRIC APPROACHES I LUNCH DEEP LEARNING GEOMETRIC APPROACHES II
14.30 14.00 14.30 15.00
BREAK POSTER CRAZE 2 FILM: Gilles Baroin and Hugues Seress CLOSING ADDRESS
15.00 14.35 15.30
NOTATION AND REPRESENTATION POSTER SESSION 2 BREAK
16.00 15.30 16.00
BREAK PATTERNS PERFORMANCE
16.30 17.30
POSTER CRAZE 1 BREAK
17.05 18.00
POSTER SESSION 1 CONCERT:
GEOMETRIES & GESTURES (GEGE)
18.00
WELCOME RECEPTION

 

MONDAY 22 June 2015
9.30 REGISTRATION
10.45 INTRODUCTIONS: ORGANIZERS AND SMCM PRESIDENT
11.00 KEYNOTE: GARETH LOY – Chair: Elaine Chew
Steps to a theory of musical interest
12.00 LUNCH
13.00 SESSION: GEOMETRIC APPROACHES I – Chair: Clifton Callender
13.00 Robert Peck.
All-interval structures
13.30 Tobias Schlemmer.
Unifying tone system definitions: ordering chromas
14.00 Alexandre Popoff, Moreno Andreatta and Andrée Ehresman.
A categorical generalization of Klumpenhouwer networks
14.30 BREAK
15.00 SESSION: NOTATION AND REPRESENTATION – Chair: Robin Laney
15.00 Florent Jacquemard, Pierre Donat-Bouillud and Jean Bresson.
A structural theory of rhythm notation based on tree representations and term rewriting
15.30 Liang Chen, Rong Jin and Christopher Raphael.
Renotation from optical music recognition
16.00 BREAK
16.30 POSTER CRAZE 1 (POSTERS A-G) (see list of poster presentations below) – Chair: David Meredith
17.05 POSTER SESSION 1 (AUTHORS OF POSTERS A-G AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS)
18.00 WELCOME RECEPTION

TUESDAY 23 June 2015
9.30 KEYNOTE: ANDRÉE EHRESMANN – Chair: Oscar Bandtlow
Approaching creative systems: insights from contemporary mathematics
10.30 BREAK
11.00 SESSION: POST-TONAL MUSIC ANALYSIS (FOR HARMONY AND MELODY) – Chair: Guerino Mazzola
11.00 Jason Yust.
Applications of DFT to the theory of twentieth-century harmony
11.30 Kate Sekula.
Utilizing computer programming to analyze post-tonal music: contour analysis of four works for solo flute
12.00 CONCERT: BLOOD & TANGO – Chair: Emmanuel Amiot
Blood from a Stone (1992) by Gareth Loy, composed for Max Matthew’s electronic violin (Laurel Pardue, violin)
Le Grand Tango by Astor Piazzolla (Ian Pressland, cello; Elaine Chew, piano)
Le Grand Tango by Astor Piazzolla (Susanne Beer, cello; Elaine Chew, piano)
13.00 LUNCH
14.00 POSTER CRAZE 2 (POSTERS H-N) (see list of poster presentations below) – Chair: Anja Volk
14.35 POSTER SESSION 2 (AUTHORS OF POSTERS H-N AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS)
15.30 SESSION: PATTERNS – Chair: Tom Collins
15.30 Marcelo Enrique Rodriguez Lopez and Anja Volk.
Location constraints for repetition-based segmentation of melodies
16.00 Mathieu Giraud and Slawek Staworko.
Modeling musical structure with parametric grammars
16.30 Andrew J. Milne, David Bulger, Steffen A. Herff and William A. Sethares.
Perfect balance: a novel principle for the construction of musical scales and meters
17.00 END OF DAY

WEDNESDAY 24 June 2015
9.30 KEYNOTE: EMILIA GÓMEZ – Chair: Anja Volk
Computational models of symphonic music: challenges and opportunities
10.30 BREAK
11.00 SESSION: MUSIC GENERATION – Chair: Kat Agres
11.00 Jaime Arias, Myriam Desainte-Catherine, Carlos Olarte and Camilo Rueda.
Foundations for reliable and flexible interactive multimedia scores
11.30 Carlos Almada.
Genetic algorithms based on the principles of Grundgestalt and developing variation
12.00 Tsubasa Tanaka and Koichi Fujii.
Describing global musical structures by integer programming on musical patterns
12.30 LUNCH (in parallel with JMM editorial board meeting)
13.30 SESSION: DEEP LEARNING – Chair: Emilia Gomez
13.30 Stefan Lattner, Maarten Grachten, Kat Agres and Carlos Eduardo Cancino Chacón.
Probabilistic segmentation of musical sequences using restricted Boltzmann machines
14.00 Bob Sturm, Corey Kereliuk and Jan Larsen.
?El Caballo Viejo? Latin genre recognition with deep learning and spectral periodicity
14.30 FILM: Gilles Baroin and Hugues Seress. – Chair: Oscar Bandtlow
From circle to hyperspheres, part III, exploring new mathemusical dimensions
15.30 BREAK
16.00 SESSION: PERFORMANCE – Chair: Johanna Devaney
16.00 Maria Mannone and Guerino Mazzola.
Hypergestures in complex time: creative performance between symbolic and physical reality
16.30 Matteo Balliauw, Dorien Herremans, Daniel Palhazi Cuervo and Kenneth Sörensen.
Generating fingerings for polyphonic piano music with a tabu search algorithm
17.00 Luwei Yang, Elaine Chew and Khalid Z. Rajab.
Logistic modeling of note transitions
17.30 BREAK
18.00 CONCERT: GEOMETRIES & GESTURES (GEGE) – Chair: Elaine Chew
Seven Selections from Rational Melodies by Tom Johnson (Carlos Vaquero, flute)
Chord Geometries in Italian Pop (Moreno Andreatta, piano)
Free jazz improvisations (Guerino Mazzola, piano)
19.00 END OF DAY

THURSDAY 25 June 2015
9.30 KEYNOTE: GE WANG – Chair: David Meredith
The art of designing computer music
10.30 BREAK
11.00 SESSION: SCALES – Chair: Tom Fiore
11.00 Emmanuel Amiot.
Can a scale have 14 different generators?
11.30 Marco Castrillón and Manuel Domínguez.
On the step-patterns of generated scales that are not well-formed
12.00 Thomas Noll.
Triads as modes within scales as modes
12.30 LUNCH
13.30 SESSION: GEOMETRIC APPROACHES II – Chair: Jason Yust
13.30 Ozgur Izmirli.
Constructing geometrical spaces from acoustical representations
14.00 Clifton Callender.
Geometry, iterated quantization, and filtered voice-leading spaces
14.30 James Hughes.
Using fundamental groups and groupoids of chord spaces to model voice leading
15.00 CLOSING ADDRESS
15.15 END OF CONFERENCE

POSTER SESSION 1
A Alexandre Popoff.
A statistical approach to the large scale structure of John Cage’s Number Piece Five5
B Eita Nakamura and Shinji Takaki.
Characteristics of polyphonic music style and Markov model of pitch-class intervals
C Rafael Valle and Adrian Freed.
Symbolic music similarity using neuronal periodicity and dynamic programming
D Johanna Devaney.
Evaluating singer consistency and uniqueness in vocal performances
E Masatoshi Hamanaka, Keiji Hirata and Satoshi Tojo.
Structural similarity based on time-span sub-trees
F Robin Laney, Robert Samuels and Emilie Capulet.
Cross entropy as a measure of musical contrast
G Raymond Whorley and Darrell Conklin.
Improved iterative random walk for four-part harmonization.

POSTER SESSION 2
H Christopher White.
A corpus-sensitive algorithm for automated tonal analysis
I Gilles Baroin and Hugues Seress.
The Spinnen-Tonnetz: new musical dimensions in the 2D network for tonal music analysis
J Dimos Makris, Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas and Emilios Cambouropoulos.
A probabilistic approach to determining bass voice leading in melodic harmonisation
K Brian Bemman and David Meredith.
Exact cover problem in Milton Babbitt’s all-partition array
L David L Clampitt and Jennifer Shafer.
Greek ethnic modal names vs. Alia musica’s nomenclature
M Katerina Kosta, Oscar F. Bandtlow and Elaine Chew.
A change-point approach towards representing musical dynamics
N Ryan Groves.
Finding optimal triadic transformational spaces with Dijkstra’s shortest path algorithm

Mathematics and Computation in Music