Description
Computational models of music can formalize assumptions about what music is, how it is structured, and what counts as musical knowledge when translated into computational form. This workshop invites contributions that examine how musical knowledge is represented, transformed, and interpreted across symbolic, audio, cultural, and performance contexts, foregrounding modeling as a potentially interpretive act rather than a neutral technical process.
This workshop follows Anja Volk's CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture, and we are delighted that she will join us as a discussant, bringing her perspective on computational modeling of musical structures to bear on the contributions presented.
Registration
The presentation deadline has passed. To register as an attendee, please complete this MS form: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/7SjnqAeC4f
Schedule
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9:00–9:30: Coffee
9:30–9:35: Welcome words
9:35–10:40: Individual talks
10 minutes each, followed by a short question period
Zachary Sussman — A Formal Grammar for Modeling the Experience of Arrival and Departure in Polyphonic Musical Events
Paul Robert — Tracking Sensory Predictions in Neural Responses to Naturalistic Music with Deep Learning Models
Farzad Milani — Encoding a Forgotten System: Hedāyat’s Abjadic-Metric Notation as a Model of Seventeen-Tone Persian Music
Kyrie Bouressa — Automatic Detection of Musical Scribes in Saint Gall Codices 390/1, 389, 340
Yifan Huang & Eto Sun — Encoding Guqin Jianzipu: A Gesture-Based MEI Module for a Logographic Notation
10:40–11:00: Coffee break
Demo Orfeo by Élie Simard
11:00–11:50: Individual talks
Zih-Syuan Lin — What Counts as a Correct Score? Musical Assumptions in Transcription Evaluation
Hanwen Zhang — A Context-Aware Piano Performance Encoding Framework for Sustain Pedaling
Yashar Talebirad — What Makes Sound Layers Clash? Human Judgments, Signal Features, and Audio Models
Wenye Ma — What Matters for Music-Centered Recognition in Audio-Language Models?
11:50: Closing discussion