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July 2–4, 2019

Birmingham City University, UK

 

 

The first Special Topics Symposium, AAWM 2019, will meet jointly with the 9th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA 2019). The special topic of this symposium is “Computational Approaches to World Music Analysis.” The conference schedule, abstracts, and additional information is available on the conference website at AAWMconference.com. Please consider joining us! 

Sam Mukherji and Lawrence Shuster (OC)

Robert Peck (Chair, PC)

 

Programme: Tuesday, July 2nd

 

09:00 – 10:00 : Registration – Royal Birmingham Conservatoire – Café

 

10:00 – 10:30 : Welcome, RBC Folk Ensemble Concert – Royal Birmingham Conservatoire – Recital Hal

 

10:30 – 12:00 : AAWM Paper Session 1 – Millennium Point – MP388

  • 10:30-11:15 – Eli Marshall (Cornell University), “What Can We Learn from Theoretical Phonetics? Segmentation of Musical Sound as a Basis for Analysis of Blues Vocalists”
  • 11:15-12:00 – Babak Nikzat (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz), “Elastic scales or elastic hearing? The significance of ethnographic fieldwork in understanding the emic perception of musical pitch: A case study on south Iranian bagpipe music”

 

13:00 – 16:00 pm : FMA Paper Session 1 – Millennium Point – MP388

  • 13:00-13:30 – Jiei Kuroyanagi, Shoichiro Sato, Meng-Jou Ho, Gakuto Chiba, Joren Six, Peter Pfordresher, Adam Tierney, Shinya Fujii and Patrick Savage – Automatic comparison of human music, speech, and bird song suggests uniqueness of human scales
  • 13:30-14:00 – Frank Scherbaum, Nana Mzhavanadze, Sebastian Rosenzweig and Meinard Mueller – Multi-media recordings of traditional Georgian vocal music for computational analysis
  • 14:00-14:30 Geert Maessen – Aspects of melody generation for the lost chant of the Mozarabic Rite
  • 14:30-15:00 – Sauhaarda Chowdhuri –  PhonoViz: Chroma Feature Visualization for Hindustani Classical Music
  • 15:00-15:30 – Robertas Budrys and Rytis Ambrazevičius – On the singer’s formant in Lithuanian traditional singing
  • 15:30-16:00 – Mats Johansson – Timing-sound interactions in traditional Scandinavian fiddle music: Preliminary findings and implications

16:30 – 18.00 : AAWM Paper Session 2 – Millennium Point – MP388

  • 16:30-17:15 – Jay Rahn (York University), “Reformulating Traditional Burmese Tunings”
  • 17:15-18:00 – Michael Clarke (University of Huddersfield), Jonathan Stock (University College Cork). Cristina Ghirardini (University of Huddersfield), and Laurens Van Der Wee (University of Huddersfield), “IRiMaS: An interactive aural approach to analysing world music “

 

18:00 – 19.00 : Keynote – Bryan Duggan (DIT) – Millennium Point – MP388

 

19:30 Onwards : Traditional tune session – Upstairs at The Woodman Pub

  • Address: New Canal St, Birmingham B5 5LG
  • Phone: 0121 643 4960
  • Directions: Exit Millennium point form the ground floor exit (opposite end from the Conservatoire), follow the path to the right and the Woodman is around 100m from Millennium Point.
  • If you play traditional or folk music, you are most welcome to join in so please bring an instrument. There will be a few players of English and Irish tunes but anything goes and it would be nice to hear music from other traditions!

Programme: Wednesday, July 3rd

 

10:30 – 12:00 : FMA Paper Session 2 – Millennium Point – MP388

  • 10:30-11:00 – Rytis Ambrazevičius – Modelling of local tempo change with applications to Lithuanian traditional singing
  • 11:00-11:30 – Per Åsmund Omholt – Painting blue 
  • 11:30-12:00 – Geert Maessen – Toledo, Rome and the origins of Gregorian chant – An alternative hypothesis

 

12:00 – 13.00 : Concert – Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar – Conservatoire Jazz Club – Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

 

13:30 – 15:45 : AAWM Paper Session 3 – Millennium Point – MP388

  • 13:30-14:15 – Kendra Stepputat (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz) and Christopher S. Dick (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz), “The importance of ‘the beat’ for tango dancers: Using motion capture to access culturally embedded and embodied knowledge”
  • 14:15-15:00 – David Kirkland Garner (University of South Carolina School of Music), “Tempo, Drive & Identity in Cape Breton Traditional Fiddle Music”
  • 15:00-15:45 – Rainer Polak (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics), “What data to compute? The role of corpus construction: Three examples from Mali”

 

16:00 – 17:00 : FMA Paper Session 3– Millennium Point – MP388

 

  • 16:00-16:30 – Polina Proutskova – Towards singing perception universals
  • 16:30-17:00 – Pierre Beauguitte and Hung-Chuan Huang – Content-based music retrieval of Irish traditional music via a virtual tin whistle

Programme: Thursday, July 4th

 

09:00 – 12:00 : AAWM Paper Session 4 – Millennium Point – MP388

  • 09:00-09:45 – Rafael Caro Repetto (Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) and Xavier Serra (Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), “Seeing for better listening: Computational tools for enhancing music understanding”
  • 09:45-10.30 – Martín Rocamora (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) and Luis Jure (Universidad de la República, Uruguay), “carat: A toolbox for computer-assisted rhythm analysis”
  • 10.30-11.15 – Panos Mavromatis (New York University), “Toward Cognitive Models of Improvisation: Perspectives from Computational Corpus Analysis”
  • 11.15-12.00 – André Holzapfel (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), “Towards the analysis of long participatory music performances”

 

13:30 – 15:30 pm : FMA Paper Session 4– Millennium Point – MP388

 

  • 13:30-14:00 – Cornelia Metzig, Mark Sandler and Caroline Colijn – Country classification with feature selection and network construction for folk tunes
  • 14:00-14:30 – Shoichiro Sato, Joren Six, Peter Pfordresher, Shinya Fujii and Patrick Savage – Automatic comparison of global children’s and adult songs
  • 14:30-15:00 – Nana Mzhavanadze and Madona Chamgeliani – Analysis of mutual influence of music and text in Svan songs
  • 15:00-15:30 – Anders Erik Røine – Phrasing Practices in Norwegian Slåtte Music – Preliminary results and methodological considerations

 

16:00 – 17:30 : Panel Discussion – Millennium Point – MP388

  • Rainer Polak, André Holzapfel, Panos Mavromatis, Sarah Weiss, and Luis Jure

 

20:00 Onwards : The Spotted Dog, Digbeth, Birmingham

  • Address:104 Warwick St, Birmingham B12 0NH
  • Phone: 0121 772 3822