Shorts

A Little Ditty for ISMIR 20

Seventeen years ago, I was invited by Michel Fingerhut to attend the 3rd ISMIR (International Conference on Music Information Retrieval) at IRCAM. It was my first introduction to the institution. I also met my first postdoc, Anja Volk, now a prominent member of the ISMIR community at this ISMIR. In an email to senior members […]

Events Lectures

Elaine Chew gives Public Lecture @ MIT’s Music and Theater Arts

Musical Structures, Performances, and Arrhythmias Date/Time: Thursday, 21 November 2019, 5:30pmLocation: MIT Room 4-270Street address: 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02139, USA AbstractMusical performance is widely regarded to be one of the most breathtaking feats of human intelligence, but the nature of this creative act remains illusive and studies on expressive performance still lag behind […]

Music

Haydn’s Stolen Rhythm by Cheryl Frances-Hoad

On the COSMOS YouTube channel, Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s piece based on the rhythms of Haydn’s Sonate in Es, Hob XVI:45, mvt III: Finale, Allegro di molto. New notes, sometimes quoting from Haydn’s sonata movement, are assigned to Haydn’s original rhythm, which remains almost entirely intact. Next, the original Haydn sonata movement, an interpretation after playing Cheryl […]

Feature Music

Listen to AI Music by MorpheuS

AI Music by MorpheuS COSMOS YouTube channel upload: Bach and Kabalevsky transformed by MorpheuS and interpreted by Elaine Chew. MorpheuS is a music generation AI created by Dorien Herremans and Chew—learn how MorpheuS generates music. Performances recorded in Studio 2 at IRCAM on 27 Sep 2019, on a MacBook Pro running Camtasia and using inbuilt […]