Music and Artificial Intelligence Second International Conference, ICMAI 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, September 12-14, 2002, Proceedings

Thisvolumecontainsthefullresearchpapersofthe2nd International Con- renceonMusicandArti'cialIntelligence(ICMAI02), heldinSt. Cecilia'sHall, Edinburgh, UK,12-14September2002. Theconferencewasjointlyorganizedby theFacultyofMusicandtheDivisionofInformatics, UniversityofEdinburgh. Eachofthepapersinthisvolumewasrefereedbyatleastthreereviewersfrom theProgramCommittee. AdditionalpaperswereacceptedasWork-in-Progress reports, publishedseparatelybytheDivisionofInformaticsoftheUniversity ofEdinburgh. Theconferenceprogramalsoincludedround-tablediscussions, electronicmusicconcerts, earlykeyboardintrumentdemonstrations, andvarious socialevents. Thefocusoftheconferencewasontheinterplaybetweenmusicaltheoryand practiceontheonehandandtechniquesandmethodsfromArti'cialIntelligence, includingcomputationalcognitivemodelingofmusicalprocesses, ontheother. Weareespeciallyinterestedinissuesofmusicalrepresentationandanalysis, associatedalgorithms, andtheevaluationofmusicalartefacts. MusicpresentsmanychallengesforAIandInformaticsingeneral. Whilethe analogieswithnaturallanguageandwithvisionareproductive, musicrequires novelsolutionstoitsownrepresentationalandalgorithmicproblems. Forthe musician, workinthisareacontributestowardsmusicologicalstudy, composition, performance, interactivesystems, andsoundsynthesis. Threedistinguishedscholarsinthearea, MiraBalaban, Jean-ClaudeRisset, andAntonioCamurri, agreedtogivetheinvitedkeynotes. Thesetalkscovered di'erentfeaturesofmusicalexperienceanditsrelationtoArti'cialIntelligence, namelymusicalconcepts, composition, andperformance. Morespeci'cally, Jean- ClaudeRisset'stopicwasMusicalCompositionandArti'cialIntelligence: Some Precedents and Prospects, MiraBalaban'swas Structure and Interpretation of Music Concepts - Music from a Computational Perspective, andAntonio- murri'swasComputationalModelsofExpressiveGesture. Thepapersintheconferencedealtwithawiderangeofaspectsofcurrent research, includingstructural, harmonic, andreductionalmusicanalysis, pattern representationanddiscoveryinbothmonophonicandpolyphonicmusic, music perceptionofmelodyandrhythm, therelationbetweenmusicandnaturallan- age, similarityandcategorization, musicandintonation, musicalexpressionand performance, soundprocessing, soundclassi'cations, commercialapplications, andmusicontheweb. Acknowledgements. Theeditorsaregratefulforallthehelpofthosewho madethepublicationofthisvolumepossible, andespeciallyDarrellConklin, VI Organization PeterNelson, EmiliosCambouropoulos, AlisonPease, andMarkSteedman;also, JordanFleming, EwenMaclean, andRobertDow;andtheFacultyofMusicand theDivisionofInformatics, UniversityofEdinburghfor'nancialsupport. July2002 ChristinaAnagnostopoulou MiguelFerrand AlanSmaill OrganizingCommittee AlanSmaill(Chair) ChristinaAnagnostopoulou(Co-chair) MiguelFerrand PeterNelson AlisonPease MarkSteedman ProgramCommittee ? JensArnspang(Alborg) GillianHayes(Edinburgh) MiraBalaban(Ben-Gurion) HenkjanHoning(Nijmegen) MartaOlivettiBelardinelli(Rome) JukkaLouhivuori(Jyvaskyla) RensBod(Amsterdam) TodMachover(MIT-MediaLab) CarolaBoehm(Glasgow) GuerinoMazzola(ZurichandVienna) AmilcarCardoso(Coimbra) StephenMcAdams(IRCAM) EmiliosCambouropoulos(Thessaloniki)EduardoMiranda(SONYCSL-Paris) ElaineChew(USC) PeterNelson(Edinburgh) DarrellConklin(ZymoGenetics) Fran, coisPachet(SONYCSL-Paris) IanCross(Cambridge) StephenTravisPope(SantaBarbara) RogerDannenberg(CMU) AlanSmaill(Edinburgh) PeterDesain(Nijmegen) MarkSteedman(Edinburgh) AnastasiaGeorgaki(Athens) DavidTemperley(Rochester) InvitedSpeakers MiraBalaban(Ben-GurionUniversity, Israel) A