Instructor: Lars Graugaard, Anders Friberg, Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Øyvind Hauback, Aki Asgeirsson
Date: Wednesday 12/5, 10-17h
Costs: 6 hours, 25 Euro
Target Audience: composers, performers, musicologists with an interest in emotion in music
Your Skill Level: any skill level sufficient to identify you as belonging to the above
What to Bring: computer with web access
Emotional skills are an essential part of human intelligence; they modulate human communication and are fundamental to human activities including the making and consumption of music. For the non-expert music listener very often emotion is the only meaningful way to appreciate and enjoy music. For the musical expert trained in a variety of technical skills, the ability to impart emotion onto a musical performance (or an off-line music production) is directly connected to success on the music marketplace.
Today, digitally informed music has reached a point where it is becoming possible to detect emotion in a music's sonic surface, independent of it's style. The strength of emotion and the ease with which humans detect emotions in music has contributed to establishing detectable expression categories through a limited number of audio features. When this in turn is applied to real-time music synthesis, a new context for the creation and performance of music is established where man and machine can interact in much more meaningful ways, for holistic and integrated musical expressions.
The Nordic SUM research project aims to develop tools and procedures that facilitates the use of emotion as a systematic parameter in the creation, analysis and performance of music in its widest sense. The workshop will present a range of concept and tools for managing musical emotion, both in analysis and synthesis. Among these are the SUM sensor device which is a performance and measurement tool in development.
The SUM sensor device is a performance and measurement tool in development as part of the SUM project. It will capture voluntary and involuntary expressive user information through bio-signals, motion and force.
We have this schedule:
Schedule
10:00 Systematic Understanding of Music (SUM) - intro & background (Lars Graugaard)
11:00 Emotion in Music; fuzzy emotion analyser (Anders Friberg)
12:00 Probabilistic Melody Generator (Anders F & Lars G)
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 SUM Sensor Device technical presentation (Alexander Jensenius & Øyvind)
14:30 SUM Sensor Device demo (Aki Asgeirsson)
15:00 Hands-on and discussion (all minus Anders F)
16:00 End