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athina

University of Athens

unipi

University of Piraeus

EURASIP

Sponsored by EURASIP

Program

First International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis
Athens, 19th and 20th of May, 2011




Draft Program

Thursday 19th May

9 - 9.45 am:       Welcome, coffee and registration 
 
Session 1: General Considerations
Chair: Baris Bozkurt
 
9.45 - 10.30      

Automatic Transcription: An Enabling Technology for Music Analysis

Simon Dixon, Queen Mary University of London, UK
(Plenary sponsored by EURASIP)
 
10.30 - 11      

Demands on signal processing algorithms for the analysis of  traditional music

Andreas Holzapfel, INESC Porto, Portugal
 
11- 11.30         Coffee and cake
 
Session 2: Eastern Mediterranean: Turkish Music and Makams 
Chair: Rafael Ramirez
 
11.30 - 12      

Automatic Transcription for Makam Music in Turkey

Baris Bozkurt, IZMIR Institute of Technology, Turkey 
 
12 - 12.30      

Some Concepts for Formal Models for Improvisational Processes in Modal Music of Turkey and Greece 

Iannis Zannos, Ionian University, Greece
 
12.30 - 1pm   

Maqam Improvisation Analysis Based on an Integrated Modelling of Surface-Based and Culture-Dependent Rules

Olivier Lartillot and Mondher Ayari, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, and IRCAM CNRS and Univerity of Strasbourg, France
 
1 - 3                Lunch and coffee
 
Session 3: Eastern Mediterranean: Greek music
Chair: Sven Ahlback
 
3 - 3.30          

Quantitative Investigation of Temporal Microdeviations in Traditional Greek Asymmetric Metres

K. Peninta, Emilios Cambouropoulos & George Papadelis, Aristotle University of                     Thessaloniki,   Greece
 
3.30 - 4          

Investigation of the performance of beat-tracking systems on traditional Greek                                     asymmetric rhythms

Thanos Fouloulis and Emilios Cambouropoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
 
4 - 4.30          

Mining Repeating Audio Patterns in Greek Folk Music

Aggelos Pikrakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
 
4.30 - 5           Coffee and pies
 
Session 3 continues
 
5 - 5.30          

On the computational analysis of  Cretan folk music

Christina Anagnostopoulou and Darrell Conklin, University of Athens, Greece, and University of the Basque Country, Spain
 
5.30 - 6          

Cultural Parameters of Melodic Similarity

Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Stanford University, USA (Over Skype)
           
 
6 - 7 Disucssion of Day 1 (with baklava and raki):
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Problems and challenges related to computational FMA, and      possible solutions.
- Future of FMA Workshops
Chair: Aggelos Pikrakis 
 
8pm                 Dinner 
 
  
Friday 20th May
 

9 - 9.30           Coffee and cake

 

Session 4: European (western) musics
Chair: Emilios Cambouropoulos
 
 9.30 - 10        

Tracking asymmetrical beat patterns in Scandinavian Polskas

Sven Ahlback, Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden 
 
10 - 10.30

On Finding and Transcribing Bell Chiming Recordings in Folk Music Archives
Matija Marolt, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
 
10.30 - 11      

An Integrated Analysis of Flamenco Music

Paco Gomez, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
 
11 - 11.30       Coffee and cake
 
Session 5: Musics from further away
Chair: Paco Gomez
 
11.30 - 12      

Violin Expression in (Mexican) Huasteco Music 
Rafael Ramirez, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
 
12 - 12.30        

Tarsos - Automated Tone Scale Extraction Applied to African Oral Music Traditions
Joren Six and Olmo Cornelis, University College Ghent, Belgium
                         
12.30 - 3                Lunch
 
Session 6: Returning home
Chair: Matija Marolt
 
3 - 3.30          

Modeling the Formulaic Structure of Modern Greek Church Chant Using Convolutional Neural Networks 

Panayotis Mavromatis (New York University, USA)
 
3.30 - 4.30  Discussion of Day 2: Summary of  the workshop, and ideas for future collaboration
Chairs: Iannis Zannos, Christina Anagnostopoulou


 4.30 onwards: Informal discussions and visit to the Ancient sites