Registration for the 1st Conference on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity (17-19 June, University of Huddersfield, UK) is now open. The registration fee is £40 for students and £60 for non students. To register please go to https://csmc2016.wordpress.com/registration/
Keynote speakers: Graeme Bailey (Cornell University), Geraint Wiggins (Queen Mary University of London).
For more information about the conference, please visit https://csmc2016.wordpress.com/
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
FRIDAY 17 JUNE
9.00 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee
10.30 – 11.00 Welcome
11.00 – 12.30 Paper Session 1: Machine-Learning Generative Systems
- Algorithmic Composition of Melodies with Deep Recurrent Neural Networks – Florian Colombo, Samuel P. Muscinelli, Alex Seeholzer, Johanni Brea, Wulfram Gerstner
- Text-based LSTM Networks for Automatic Music Composition – Keunwoo Choi, George Fazekas, Mark Sandler
- Music Transcription Modelling and Composition Using Deep Learning – Bob Sturm, João Felipe Santos, Oded Ben-Tal, Iryna Iryna Korshunova
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 Panel Session 1: Evaluation of Creative Music Systems
15.00 – 16.00 Paper Session 2: Computers as Creative Tools
- A Model of Emergent Creativity in Sample Corpora – Christopher White
- Comparing Sounds of the Singing Voice – Christel Elisabeth Bonin
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee
16.30 – 17.30 Workshop Session 1: Hands-On Computer Simulation of Music Evolution – Marcelo Gimenes
18.30 – 19.30 Concert
SATURDAY 18 JUNE
9.00 – 9.30 Registration
9.30 – 11.00 Paper Session 3: Theoretical Perspectives on Creative Music Systems
- Creativity in the Generation of Machine Rhythms – Scott Barton
- Generative Music Evaluation: Why do We Limit to 'Human'? – Roisin Loughran, Michael O'Neill
- Creative Music Systems and the Individuation of Musical Works – Nemesio García-Carril Puy
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 12.30 Workshop Session 2: A Composer and a Philosopher on a MiniRoundabout: CityBuilder and Cybernetics – Stephen Overy, Kelcey Swain
12.30 – 14:00 Lunch
14.00 – 15:30 Paper Session 4: Systems for Enhancing Human Composition and Performance
- A Commensal Architecture for Evolving Living Instruments – Jonas Abernot, Guillaume Beslon, Simon Hickinbotham, Sergio Peignier, Christophe Rigotti
- Towards an Embodiment of Compositional Practice: the Ongoing Evolution of CloudCube – Simon Cummings
- The Undulatory Analysis: a Tool for Music Composition – Oswaldo Gonzalez-Lizausaba
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee
16:00 – 17:00 Keynote Lecture 1: Creative Expectations - Graeme Bailey
17:00 – 18:00 Panel Session 2: Creative Music Systems: Bridging the Divide Between Academia and Industry?
19:30 Conference Dinner
SUNDAY 19 JUNE
9.00 – 9.30 Registration
9.30 – 11.00 Paper Session 5: Computers as Composers
- Evaluating a Swarm Algorithm as an Improvising Accompanist: an Experiment in Using Transformed Analysis of George E. Lewis's 'Voyager' – Rene Mogensen
- Exploring the Rules in Species Counterpoint – Iris Yuping Ren
- A Knowledge Engineering Approach to Computational Creativity in Sound Design – Eugene Cherny, Johan Lilius, Johannes Brusila, Dmitry Mouromtsev
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 12.30 Round Table: Creative Music Systems: Current Capacities and Future Prospects
12.30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Keynote Lecture 2 – Geraint Wiggins
15:00 – 16:00 Workshop Session 3: Towards Incorporating Computer-Aided Techniques to Interactive Aural Analysis – Michael Clarke, Frédéric Dufeu, Peter Manning
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee and farewell
