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My (very) abbreviated CV is on n-ISM's permanent contacts page.
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Musically Informed Databases are those which can store and manipulate musical data in ways which are relevant to music analysts and thus to increase the relevance, portability and reliability of music information retrieval (MIR) systems. Our approach contrasts with most MIR systems available or in the research phases today, which rely heavily on lower-level statistical measures of musical parameters, use string-matching techniques which do not take into account whether or not the notes they are matching are primary or subordinate, or operate in the audio domain which has little to do with musical issues. The project is split into three components:
A storage component based upon the enhancement of state-of-the-art relational databases to provide reliable, distributable, efficient bulk storage;
Presentation tools which permit the results of queries to be returned in the form of professional-quality scores annotated according to database query results;
A MusicXML-based interchange format, "Performance Markup Language" (PML), developed with DouglasMcGilvray which can represent the results of query data across the performance, musical score and audio domains in a rich and portable fashion.
Chopin Performance Analysis is a project using engineering techniques to acquire data from expert pianists playing the finale of the Bb piano sonata opus 35. More details from JenniferMacRitchie.
Creating n-ISM, the Network for Interdisciplinary studies in Science, Technology and Music, a launch pad for many more such exciting projects.
Membership of the DMRN (Digital Music Research Network)
Completed Projects
The The Rosegarden Codicil: a pitch-tracker for the excellent Rosegarden sequencer for Linux, along with DouglasMcGilvray and GrahamHair, and IngridPearson. A very interesting truly interdisciplinary project involving hugely talented composer, performer, software engineer, and me
The project has its own n-ISM page at http://www.n-ism.org/Projects/microtonalism.php
Recent News
Proprioceptive Bow makes its first outing
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Tristan Gurney of the Edinburgh Quartet tries out the Proprioceptive Bow. This first prototype uses a 2d gyro and 3d accelerometer to gain information about the performers gestures. A refined version will be used in a study of Bartok's Third String Quartet. |
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