Training Workshop on Open Music: Using OpenMusic for Computer-Aided Music Theory, Analysis, and Composition

Researchers from IRCAM are offering a two-day workshop on the creative use of OpenMusic, the visual programming environment they have developed for computationally assisted composition. This workshop is open to all with registration.

Workshops and Research Meetings
June 10, 2013
09:30 - 16:00
A832, New Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke St. West.
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Registration

Seating is limited (35 seats). Please confirm you attendance here: Training workshop on OpenMusic - registration form

Speakers

  • Moreno Andreatta, IRCAM, France
  • Carlos Agon, IRCAM, France

Description

In this Workshop we present some computational models in computer-aided music theory, analysis and composition by using OpenMusic visual programming language. This environment, which was originally conceived for computer-aided composition, can also be very useful in computational musicology. We will initially present some tools for the formalization of musical structure by focusing on the pitch domain (circular representation and chord classification, Sieve Theory, Microtonality, Self-similar melodies, …). We then discuss the use of OpenMusic for rhythmic representations, by presenting the tiling rhythmic canon constructions and its possible models (rhythmic trees, constraints programming, Vuza’s algorithms, augmentation operations and Discrete Fourier Transform algorithms). Many compositional applications of all these tools (and other algorithmic processes) will be detailed, as they have been described in the two collective books published by Ircam “Music/Sciences” Series (The OM Composer’s Book n°1 and n°2). We will end by presenting an ongoing project aiming to link OpenMusic with sophisticated spatial programming environments and enabling the study of high-dimensional geometric versions of the classical Neo-Riemmanian Tonnetz, with application to non-tonal music analysis and composition.

Useful information:

Participants are invited to bring their own laptop and experiment with OpenMusic patches that will be made available during the Workshop.

OpenMusic can be freely downloaded from Ircam web page : http://repmus.ircam.fr/openmusic/download

Schedule

Monday June 10th

09:30-11:30 - Some tools for the formalization of musical structures in the pitch domain

11:30-12:00 - Q&A

12:00-13:30 - Break

13:30-15:30 - Rhythmic representations in OpenMusic with focus on the tiling rhythmic canon construction

15:30-16:00 - Q&A

 

Tuesday June 11th

09:30-11:30 - Composer’s examples from the two volumes of the OM Composer’s Book.

11:30-12:00 - Q&A

12:00-13:30 - Break

13:30-15:30 - The Tonnetz representation and its generalization for non-tonal music analysis and composition (given by guest speaker Louis Bigo)

15:30-16:00 - Q&A