In the digital domain, music is usually studied from a positivist viewpoint, focusing on general ’objective’ music descriptors. In this work, we strive to put music in a more social and cultural context, looking into ways to unify data analysis methods with thoughts from the humanities on musical meaning and signi ficance. More speci fically, we investigate whether information in collaborative web resources on movie plot narratives and folksonomic song tags is capable of revealing common associations between these two. Reported initial fi ndings suggest this is indeed the case, which opens opportunities for further work in this area, cross-disciplinary collaborations, and novel contextually oriented music information retrieval application scenarios.
JF - 11th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR) CY - Plymouth, UK ER - TY - THES T1 - Multifaceted Approaches to Music Information Retrieval T2 - Department of Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Y1 - 2015 A1 - Cynthia C. S. Liem JF - Department of Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science PB - Delft University of Technology CY - Delft VL - PhD SN - 9789462992382 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.4233/uuid:e8a04372-4c55-4b5f-9bc3-aaab73fe649d ER - TY - CONF T1 - PHENICX: Innovating the Classical Music Experience T2 - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2015) Y1 - 2015 A1 - Cynthia C. S. Liem A1 - Emilia Gómez A1 - Markus Schedl JF - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2015) CY - Torino, Italy ER - TY - CONF T1 - Put the Concert Attendee in the Spotlight. A User-Centered Design and Development Approach for Classical Concert Applications T2 - 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Y1 - 2015 A1 - Mark S. Melenhorst A1 - Cynthia C. S. Liem JF - 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference CY - Málaga, Spain UR - http://ismir2015.uma.es/articles/67_Paper.pdf ER - TY - CONF T1 - A Tablet App to Enrich the Live and Post-Live Experience of Classical Concerts T2 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Interactive Content Consumption (WSICC) at TVX 2015 Y1 - 2015 A1 - Mark S. Melenhorst A1 - Ron van der Sterren A1 - Andreas Arzt A1 - Martorell, Agustín A1 - Cynthia C. S. Liem JF - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Interactive Content Consumption (WSICC) at TVX 2015 ER - TY - CONF T1 - Exploiting Instrument-wise Playing/Non-Playing Labels for Score Synchronization of Symphonic Music T2 - Proceedings of the 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alessio Bazzica A1 - Cynthia C. S. Liem A1 - Hanjalic, Alan AB - Score synchronization with an audio-visual recording of a symphonic music performance is usually done by solving an audio-to-MIDI alignment problem. In this paper we investigate what role visual channel can have in this process. In particular, we focus on the possibility to represent both the score and the performance by the information about what instrument is active at a given time stamp. More specifically, we investigate to what extent instrument-level 'play' (P) and 'non-play' (NP) labels are informative in the synchronization process. After introducing the P/NP-based representation of the music piece, both at the score and performance level, we define an efficient way of computing the distance between the two representations, which serves as input for the synchronization step based on dynamic time warping. In parallel with assessing the effectiveness of the proposed representation, we also study its robustness when missing and/or erroneous labels occur. Our experimental results show that P/NP-based music piece representation is informative for performance-to-score synchronization and may benefit the existing audio-only approaches. JF - Proceedings of the 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference CY - Taipei, Taiwan ER - TY - CONF T1 - The Piano Music Companion T2 - Proceedings of the Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS) Y1 - 2014 A1 - Andreas Arzt A1 - Sebastian Böck A1 - Flossmann, S. A1 - Frostel, H. A1 - Gasser, M. A1 - Cynthia C. S. Liem A1 - Widmer, G. JF - Proceedings of the Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS) ER - TY - CONF T1 - Using Social Media Mining for Estimating Theory of Planned Behaviour Parameters T2 - Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services (EMPIRE 2014) Y1 - 2014 A1 - Marko Tkalčič A1 - Bruce Ferwerda A1 - Markus Schedl A1 - Cynthia C. S. Liem A1 - Mark S. Melenhorst A1 - Ante Odić A1 - Andrej Košir JF - Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services (EMPIRE 2014) CY - Aalborg, Denmark ER - TY - CONF T1 - Innovating the Classical Music Experience in the PHENICX Project: Use Cases and Initial User Feedback T2 - 1st International Workshop on Interactive Content Consumption (WSICC) at EuroITV 2013 Y1 - 2013 A1 - Cynthia C. S. Liem A1 - Ron van der Sterren A1 - Marcel van Tilburg A1 - Álvaro Sarasúa A1 - Juan J. Bosch A1 - Jordi Janer A1 - Mark S. Melenhorst A1 - Emilia Gómez A1 - Alan Hanjalic KW - interactivity KW - multimedia information systems KW - multimodality KW - music information retrieval KW - performing arts KW - social networks KW - user studies AB -The FP7 PHENICX project focuses on creating a new digital classical concert experience, improving the accessibility of classical music concert performances by enhancing and enriching them in novel digital ways, In this paper, we present the project’s foreseen use cases. Subsequently, we summarize initial use case feedback from two different user groups. Despite the early stage of the project, the feedback already gives important insight into real-world considerations to make for interactive music content consumption solutions.
JF - 1st International Workshop on Interactive Content Consumption (WSICC) at EuroITV 2013 CY - Como, Italy ER - TY - Generic T1 - Looking Beyond Sound: Unsupervised Analysis of Musician Videos T2 - 14th International Workshop on Image and Audio Analysis for Multimedia Interactive services (WIA2MIS) Y1 - 2013 A1 - Cynthia C. S. Liem A1 - Alessio Bazzica A1 - Alan Hanjalic AB -Modern digital multimedia and internet technology have radically changed the ways people find entertainment and discover new interests online, seemingly without any phys- ical or social barriers. Such new access paradigms are in sharp contrast with the traditional means of entertainment. An illustrative example of this is live music concert perfor- mances that are largely being attended by dedicated audi- ences only.
This papers introduces the PHENICX project, which aims at enriching traditional concert experiences by using state- of-the-art multimedia and internet technologies. The project focuses on classical music and its main goal is twofold: (a) to make live concerts appealing to potential new au- dience and (b) to maximize the quality of concert experi- ence for everyone. Concerts will then become multimodal, multi-perspective and multilayer digital artifacts that can be easily explored, customized, personalized, (re)enjoyed and shared among the users. The paper presents the main scientific objectives on the project, provides a state of the art review on related research and presents the main chal- lenges to be addressed.