Programme

Please note that slight changes may be made (last update: 20th Jun 2012). 

You can download the complete Programme Guide here (.pdf).

The final CMMR 2012 Proceedings are available for download here (.pdf).

Tuesday 19th June 2012
 

9:00-10:00 Registration
10:00-12:30 Tutorial/Workshop 1: Pure Data and Sound Design (Andy Farnell)
10:00-12:30 Tutorial 2: Musicology and Music Information Retrieval Tools (Daniel Leech Wilkinson and Dan Tidhar)
10:00-12:30 CMMR 2012 Music Concert and C4DM Recording and Performance Space Tour
11:00-12:00 Coffee Break
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-17:00 Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Expressive Performance Workshop
Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
15:00-17:00 Tour of British Library Sound Studios
15:00-16:00 Coffee Break
18:30-19:30 Welcome Reception (Balconies of Wilton's Grand Music Hall)
20:00-22:00 New Resonances Festival at Wilton's Music Hall (Concert 1)

Wednesday 20th June 2012
 

9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9.45 Welcome and Announcements
9:45 - 10:45 Keynote Talk 1: "Hearing with our hearts: Psychological perspectives on music and emotions" (Prof. Patrik N. Juslin)
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:20 Oral session 1: Music Emotion Analysis (5 papers)
12:20 - 12:40 Yamaha Talk
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Poster Session 1: Music Emotion: Analysis, Retrieval, and Multimodal Approaches, Synthesis, Symbolic Music-IR, Spatial Audio, Performance, Semantic Web
15:00 - 16:40 Oral Session 2: 3D Audio and Sound Synthesis (5 papers)
16:40 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 18:00 Panel 1: "Production Music: Mood and Metadata" (Dr. Mathieu Barthet, David Marston, Andy Hill, Alex Black, Martyn Davies, Marco Perry)
20:00 - 22:00 New Resonances Festival at Wilton's Music Hall (Concert 2)

Thursday 21st June 2012
 

9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30 - 10:30 Keynote Talk 2: "The why, how, and what of sparse representations for audio and acoustics" (Prof. Laurent Daudet)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:20 Oral Session 3: Computer Models of Music Perception and Cognition: Applications and Implications for MIR (4 papers)
12:20 - 12:40 myfii Talk
12:40 - 13:40 Lunch
13:40 - 15:00 Poster session 2: Computer Models of Music Perception and Cognition, Music Information Retrieval, Music Similarity and Recommendation, Computational musicology, Intelligent Music Tuition Systems
15:00 - 16:40 Oral session 4: Music Emotion Recognition (5 papers)
16:40 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 18:30 Panel 2: "The Future of Music Information Research" (Prof. Geraint A. Wiggins, Prof. Joydeep Bhattacharya, Prof. Tim Crawford, Dr. Alan Marsden, Prof. John Sloboda)
Supported by the EU-FP7 project "Roadmap for Music Information ReSearch" (MIReS)
20:00 - 00:00 Gala Dinner at the Under The Bridge venue (Chelsea Football Club) followed by BBT Concert and Open Jam Session

Friday 22nd June 2012
 

9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30 - 10:30 Keynote Talk 3: "Music In Cinema: How Soundtrack Composers Act On The Way People Feel" (Simon Boswell)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:40 Oral Session 5: Music Information Retrieval (5 papers)
12:40 - 13:40 Lunch
13:40 - 14:40  Demo Session
13:40 - 14:40 Yamaha Showcase
14:40 - 15:40 Oral Session 6: Film Soundtrack and Music Recommendation (3 papers)
15:40 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:20 Oral Session 7: Computational Musicology and Music Education (4 papers)
19:00 - 22:00 New Resonances Festival at Wilton's Music Hall (Concert 3)

 

Workshops Schedule  

Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Expressive Performance Workshop

Tuesday 19th June 2012, 13:30-17:00

  • J. P. Ito, "Focal Impulses and Expressive Performance"
  • D. Leech-Wilkinson, "Rubato and Melodic Direction"
  • F. Gualda and R. Yamaguchi, "(Re)Shaping Musical Gesture - an interface for studying performers' expressive cues"
  • A. Kirke, E. Miranda and S. Nasuto, "Learning to Make Feelings: Expressive Performance as a part of a machine learning tool for sound-based emotion therapy and control"
  • A. Tanaka, "Intention, Effort, and Restraint in Expressive Biosensor Musical Performance"
  • E. Chew and C. Callender, "Absolute Tempo vs. Log(Tempo), Score Time vs. Performance Time"
  • R. Timmers and S. Tucker, "Applying performance analysis techniques to assist practicing expression: two extensions of low-level visual feedback on expressive drum performances"
  • S. Flossmann and G. Widmer, "Towards an Evaluation Scheme for Expressive Performance Renderings"
  • K. Jensen and S. Frimodt-Møller, "MoCap and Audio Feature Analysis of Performances Portraying Different Emotions"
  • A. McPherson and A. Stark, "Modelling Expressive Piano Technique using Capacitive Touch Sensing on the Keyboard"
     

Oral, Poster, and Demo Sessions Schedule

 

Oral session 1: Music Emotion Analysis

Wednesday 20th June 2012, 11:00-12:20

 

Oral session 2: 3D Audio and Sound Synthesis

Wednesday 20th June 2012, 15:00-16:40

 

Poster session 1: Music Emotion: Analysis, Retrieval and Multimodal Approaches, Synthesis, Symbolic Music-IR, Spatial audio, Performance, Semantic Web

Wednesday 20th June 2012, 13:00-15:00

 

Oral session 3: Computer Models of Music Perception and Cognition: Applications and Implications for Music Information Retrieval

Thursday 21st June 2012, 11:00-12:20

 

Oral session 4: Music Emotion Recognition

Thursday 21st June 2012, 15:00-16:40

 

Poster session 2: Computer Models of Music Perception and Cognition*, Music Information Retrieval, Music Similarity and Recommendation, Computational musicology, Intelligent Music Tuition Systems

Thursday 21st June 2012, 12:40-15:00

(Posters for special session on Computer Models of Music Perception and Cognition are indicated with *)

 

Oral session 5: Music Information Retrieval

Friday 22nd June 2012, 11:00-12:40

 

Oral session 6: Film Soundtrack and Music Recommendation

Friday 22nd June 2012, 14:40-15:40

 

Oral session 7: Computational Musicology and Music Education

Friday 22nd June 2012, 16:00-17:20

Demo session

Friday 22nd June 2012, 12:40-14:40