Music Information Retrieval and Computer-Assisted Music

Catalog description

Music Information Retrieval and Computer-Assisted Music have become quite important to electronic musicians recently and will increase in importance over time. The common threads that run through the topics of this course are, first, the mathematics & software that have entered the popular imagination as "big data" & "modeling" and, second, music. An application of these ideas might look like software in which one can search all of Beethoven's works to determine exactly how often he followed a V7 chord with a vi chord; this would be called Music Information Retrieval (MIR). Using a computer to calculate the possible solutions to a species counterpoint exercise might be computer-assisted music theory. The course will have a seminar-like format in which current research is reviewed and students undertake projects in MIR or CAM.