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CS+X Seminar Speaker: Prof. Elaine Chew, Professor of Digital Media at Queen Mary University of London, "The Perception and Apperception of Musical Structures"
WHEN:Monday, May 14, 2018
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
WHERE:North Campus Parking Garage/Academic Building, Workspace, 2311 N Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
AUDIENCE:Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
CATEGORY:Lectures & Meetings
DESCRIPTION:
The EECS Department welcomes Prof. Elaine Chew, Professor of Digital Media at Queen Mary University of London.
Chew will present a talk entitled "The Perception and Apperception of Musical Structures" on Monday, May 14 at 2:00 PM in The Garage Workroom.
Abstract: Music is regarded by many to be organized sound, sequences of sound that possess coherence or structure at multiple levels that flow smoothly and logically from one state to another. It is the discovery of these structures that enables us to make sense of music. In this talk, I shall discuss the ways in which music makes sense or how we make sense of music, and how computational tools can reveal traces of this musical sense making. The first example will consider the art of sight-reading, and how through transcription, the hesitations and repetitions can be linked to the cognitive processing of music. Next, we shall consider different techniques performers use (accents, timing) to impute perceptible musical structure (chunking, prominence), also evident in the recorded signal, to a music sequence. Long-term coherence remains a common challenge in composition and music generation; here, we examine examples where composers and machines steal structure (rhythm, repetition, tension) from existing pieces of music and extra-musical sources such as abnormal heartbeats. Finally, we move from the music making to the experience of music by its perceivers, where listener annotations of emotion and structure reveal markedly different ways of hearing structure.
Bio: Prof. Elaine Chew is Professor of Digital Media at Queen Mary University of London, where she is affiliated with the Centre for Digital Music. Her research centers on the mathematical modeling and computational analysis of music structures, particularly as they are shaped in expressive performance; more recently, she is applying the techniques to cardiac arrhythmia signal analysis. Her work has been recognized by NSF CAREER/PECASE awards, fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and a new European Research Council Advanced Grant for the project COSMOS (Computational Shaping and Modeling of Musical Structures). Professor Chew received PhD and SM degrees in Operations Research from MIT, a BAS in Mathematical and Computational Sciences (honors) and Music Performance (distinction) from Stanford, and Fellowship and Licentiate diplomas in piano performance from Trinity College, London.
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