CrestMuse Symposium 2010

Venue

Program NEW!!

Registration NEW!!

Organizers

NEWS>>>> 2010/7/7 The details of program are now decided.

NEWS>>>> 2010/7/6 Guest speaker is now decided. It is Dr. Perry Cook from Princeton University.

What’s the CrestMuse Symposium?

This research project aims to develop technologies to assist the production of music contents of nonverbal time-series media using a design reuse approach. This technology is based on common human sensibilities to artifacts and a consideration of the cognitive principles involved with a time-series media representation of music. This study is intended to (1) provide a music production environment that both amateur and professional producers can use and (2) contribute to an increase in Japan's competitive power in the multimedia field through the embodiment of an active experience in the appreciation of art and the formulation of new means of entertainment.

This time, we will hold CrestMuse project’s final symposium, under the theme of “Listening, Playing, Singing and Learning”. Chronological media, the way to enjoy music that we will take up is not only passive one but also positive one in which we “Play” and “Sing”, which will lead to finding the new ways of enjoying music, to creating the new type of “Listening”, and “Learning” music deeply.　In this symposium, we prepare many demonstration systems. Through physically touching those systems, we would like the participants to experience the world of new music interfaces and to feel by these interfaces those that are brought to the ways we enjoy the music.

We hope you really enjoy them.

Twitter account: CrestMuse
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Date & Venue

Date: Mon, Sept 13, 2010 (13:00 - 18:40)
Venue: Kwansei Gakuin Kaikan in Kwansei Gakuin University
(1-1-115 Uegahara, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture)
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- TEL: +81-798-54-6013 / FAX:+81-798-54-0638

Program

13:00 - 14:45 Briefing Report of CrestMuse Project
- Haruhiro KATAYOSE (Professor of School of Science & Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University) "Summary of the CrestMuse Project and Music Style Manipulation based on Cognitive Music Theory"
- Masataka GOTO (Leader of the Media Interaction Group of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)) "Music Interfaces based on Audio Analysis and Manipulation"
- Hideki KAWAHARA (Professor of School of Science & Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University) "Music Style Manipulation based on Auditory Information Representation"
- Shigeki SAGAYAMA (Professor of Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo) "Music Style Manipulation from Statistical Approach”
- Hiroshi OKUNO (Professor of the Department of Intelligence Science and Technology Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University) "Music Style Manipulation from AI Approach"
15:00 - 16:20 Invited Talk by Prof. Perry Cook, "Music and Design"
16:30 - 16:50 Short Introduction to Demo Presentations
17:00 - 17:20 Concert by CM: i-Orchestra　
17:20 - 18:40 Demo Presentations
- o Listening: Design Reuse Technology for Music and its Applications
  　・Automatic Composition System "OrpheusBB"
  　・Mathematical models of cognitive music identification "Kalliope"
  　・Music Performance Rendering System "Shunji"
  　・Music Performance Rendering System "Guitar-Case Maker"
  　・Replace solo performance in the sound signals of multiple instruments with optional phrases
- Playing: CrestMuse Directable Music Interfaces
  　・A Directable Musical Expression System "mixtract"
  　・An interface to retrieve classical-music interpretations by real-time tempo input "Query-by-Conducting"
  　・Conducting System "VirtualPhilharmony"
  　・Automatic Accompaniment System "Eurydice"
  　・MediaIinstruments "CM: i-Orchestra" for iPod touch / iPhone
  　　　-VJ Application "movtouch" for iPod touch / iPhone
  　　　-Media Instruments "Phonie" for iPod touch / iPhone
  　　　-Media Instruments "MoPH" for iPod touch / iPhone
- Singing: CrestMuse Vocal Designer
  　・CrestMuse Vocal Designer
  　　　- Voice Synthesis System "SingBySpeaking"
  　　　- Singing Morphing Interface "v.morish"
  　　　- A Singing-to-Singing Synthesis System Based on Iterative Parameter Estimation "VocaListener"
  　・Simultaneous presumption of tone factors and FO in the voice of mixed sounds
  　・Karaoke ( Minus One ) Generating System "Euterpe"
  　・Speech Analysis and Synthesis System "STRAIGHT"
  　・Singing Style Resonator
  　　　-Amami Oshima’s Folk Song Style Synthesis System, "Guin Resonator"
  　　　-"Rock Vocal Resonator"
- Learning: Explore the pleasure of time-series media explore the pleasure
  　・Feel the Beat by Body
  　・Hear the Sound of Music, Listen to Music
  　・Take a Rhythm
  　・Enjoy by everybody
19:00 - Reception ( Venue: Kwansei Gakuin Kaikan, Restaurant "Poplar")

Registration

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Date and Time: Monday 13 September 2010
Simposium 13:00 - 18:40 (Subject to change)
Reception 19:00-
Venue: Kwansei Gakuin Kaikan (1-1-155 Uegahara, Nishinimiya City, Hyogo Prefecture)

Fees
Simposium: Free
Reception: 3000Yen

Number of Places (Application will be closed as soon as it reaches the maximum numbers)
Simposium: 100
Reception: 60

Deadline for Application: Friday 3 September 2010
*Those who have already made registration and wish to change it, please again use the Registration Form.
*Those who have not registered will be admitted only when we have a spare capacity.

Contact Us

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