Evaluation and Recommendation of Pulse and Tempo Annotation in Ethnic Music

206 Pages·2014·11.16 MB·English

To
Ti Ta Thijmen,
mini Mauro,
and an amazing Anna

Promotoren Prof. Dr. Marc Leman
Vakgroep Kunst-, Muziek- en Theaterwetenschappen
Lucien Posman
Vakgroep Muziekcreatie, School of Arts, Hogeschool Gent

Decaan Prof. Dr. Marc Boone
Rector Prof. Dr. Anne De Paepe
Leescommissie
Dr. Micheline Lesaffre
Prof. Dr. Francis Maes
Dr. Godfried-Willem Raes
Peter Vermeersch
Dr. Frans Wiering

Aanvullende examencommissie
Prof. Dr. Jean Bourgeois (voorzitter)
Prof. Dr. Maximiliaan Martens
Prof. Dr. Dirk Moelants
Prof. Dr. Katharina Pewny
Prof. Dr. Linda Van Santvoort

Kaftinformatie: Art work by Noel Cornelis, cover by Inge Ketelers

ISBN: 978-94-6197-256-9

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Olmo Cornelis has been affiliated as an artistic researcher to the Royal Conservatory, School of
Arts Ghent since February 2008. His research project was funded by the Research Fund
University College Ghent.
Faculteit Letteren & Wijsbegeerte

Olmo Cornelis

Exploring the symbiosis of Western and
non-Western music

a study based on computational ethnomusicology and
contemporary music composition

Part II

Proefschrift voorgelegd tot het behalen van de graad van
Doctor in de kunsten: muziek

2013

Introduction
This book is the second book in a series of three that constitutes my doctoral
dissertation. This part contains a compilation of the main articles from my research that
is described in book I.
All articles are listed in the next section. Items that are displayed in bold are included
in this part, and are listed in the table of contents.

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Published articles
International peer reviewed publications (A1):
Cornelis, O., Lesaffre, M., Moelants, D., & Leman, M. (2010). Access to ethnic music: Advances
and Perspectives in Content based Music Information Retrieval. Signal Processing,
90(4) pp. 1008–1031.
Six, J., Cornelis, O., & Leman, M. (2013). Tarsos, a Modular Platform for precise Pitch Analysis of
Western and non-Western music. Journal of New Music Research. 42 (2) pp. 113-129.
Cornelis, O., Six, J., Holzapfel, A., & Leman, M. (2013). Evaluation and Recommendation of Pulse
and Tempo Annotation in Ethnic Music. Journal of New Music Research. 42 (2) pp. 131-
149.
Cornelis, O. (2013). From Information to Inspiration, Sensitivities mapped in a Casus of Central-
African Music Analysis and Contemporary Music Composition. Critical Arts. 27 (5) pp.
624-635.
Lidy T., Silla C.N., Cornelis O., Gouyon F., Rauber A. ,Kaestner C.A.A., Koerich A.L. (2010).
'Western vs. Ethnic Music: On the Suitability of State-of-the-art Music Retrieval
Methods for Analyzing, Structuring and Accessing Ethnic Music Collections', Signal
Processing, Elsevier. 90 pp. 1032–1048.
Matthé, T., De Caluwe, R., De Tré, G., Hallez, A., Verstraete, J., Leman, M., Cornelis, O., et al.
(2006). Similarity between multi-valued thesaurus attributes: theory and application in
multimedia systems. Flexible Query Answering Systems, Proceedings 4027, 331–342.
International peer reviewed publications (A2, VABB):
Moelants, D., Cornelis, O., Leman, M., Gansemans, J., Matthé, T., de Caluwe, R., De Tré, G.,
Matthé, T., & Hallez, A. (2007). Problems and opportunities of applying data- and
audio-mining techniques to ethnic music. Journal of Intangible Heritage, 2 pp. 57–69.
Cornelis, O., De Caluwe, R., De Tré, G., Hallez, A., Leman, M., Matthé, T., Moelants, D., et al.
(2005). Digitisation of the ethnomusicological sound archive of the Royal Museum for
Central Africa (Belgium). IASA Journal, (26), 35–43.

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International peer reviewed conference proceedings (C1)
Oramas, S., Cornelis, O. (2012). Past, Present and Future in Ethnomusicology: the computational
Challenge. Proceedings of the 13th ISMIR Conference, October 8th-12th, 2012, Porto,
Portugal.
Cornelis, O., & Six, J. (2012). Sound to Scale to Sound, a Setup for Microtonal Exploration and
Composition. In: Proceedings of the 2012 International Computer Music Conference
(ICMC 2012). Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Cornelis, O., & Six, J. (2012). Towards the tangible: Microtonal Scale Exploration in Central-
African Music. In: Proceedings of the 2012 Conference for Analytical Approaches for
World Music.
Six, J., & Cornelis, O. (2012). A robust Audio Fingerprinter based on Pitch Class Histograms -
Applications for Ethnic Music Archives. In Proceedings of the Folk Music Analysis
Conference (FMA 2012), Seville, Spain.
Six, J. & Cornelis, O. (2011). Tarsos a Platform to Explore Pitch Scales in Non-Western and
Western Music, Proceedings of the 12th International Society for Music Information
Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2011). Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Cornelis O., Moelants D., Leman M. (2009), Global Access to Ethnic Music: the next big
Challenge? Proceedings of the 10th ISMIR, Kobe, Japan.
http://www.columbia.edu/~tb2332/fmir/Papers/Moelants-fmir.pdf
Moelants, D., Cornelis, O., & Leman, M. (2009). Exploring African Tone Scales. In Proceedings of
the 10th International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2009), Kobe,
Japan, 2009, pp. 489-494.
Demey M., Cornelis O., Leman M. (2008). The IPEM_EME: a Wireless Music Controller for Real-
time Music Interaction, in: Proceedings ICAD 2008, Paris, France.
Cornelis O., Demey M., Leman M. (2008). EME: a wireless Music Controller for Real-Time Music
Interaction, Proceedings ARTECH 2008, Porto.
Antonopoulos, I., Pikrakis, A., Theodoridis, S., Cornelis, O., Moelants, D., Leman, M. (2007). Music
Retrieval by Rhythmic Similarity applied on Greek and African Traditional Music, in:
Proceedings of Eighth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval
(ISMIR2007), Vienna, Austria, 23–30 September 2007, pp. 297–300.
Moelants D., Cornelis O., Leman M. (2006). Problems and Opportunities of Audio-mining on
Ethnic music, Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Music Information
Retrieval (ISMIR 2006) pp. 334–336.
Matthé, T., De Tré, G., Hallez, A., De Caluwe, R., Leman, M., Cornelis, O., Moelants, D., et al.
(2005). A framework for flexible querying and mining of musical audio archives. 16th
International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Proceedings
(pp. 1041–1045). Presented at the Sixteenth International Workshop on Database and
Expert Systems Applications, Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society.
International peer reviewed conference abstracts (C3)
Cornelis, O., & Six, J. (2012). Revealing and Listening to Scales from the Past; Tone Scale Analysis
of Archived Central-African Music Using Computational Means. In: Proceedings of the
2012 Conference for Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM 2012).
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Six, J. & Cornelis, O. (2011). Tarsos Automated Tone Scale Extraction Applied to African Oral
Music Traditions, In : International Workshop of Folk Music Analysis (FMA2011),
Athene, Greece.
Lesaffre, M., Cornelis, O., Moelants, D., & Leman, M. (2009). Integration of Music Information
Retrieval Techniques into the Practice of Ethnic Music Collections. Presented at the
Unlocking Audio 2 - connecting with listeners, London, UK: British Library.
Book chapter (B2)
Cornelis, O. (2011). Theoretisch en artistiek onderzoek naar de symbiose van Westerse en niet-
Westerse muzikale idiomen, situering. ARIP: Artistic Research In Progress (pp. 90–99).
Gent: School of Arts.
Cornelis, O. (2010). Een digitaal klankarchief, en nu? Over de opportuniteiten van een digitale
omgeving aan de hand van het digitaliseringsproject. Achter de muziek aan: muzikaal
erfgoed in Vlaanderen en Nederland (pp. 280–284). Acco, Uitgeverij.
Cornelis, O., & Gansemans, J. (2006). De problematiek van het DEKKMMA-project. In M. Leman,
O. Cornelis, & A. Ganzevoort (Eds.), Digitale bibliotheken voor muzikale audio:
perspectieven en tendensen in digitalisering, archivering en ontsluiting van muziek
(pp. 23–35). Presented at the Contactforum Digitale bibliotheken voor muzikale audio,
Brussel: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor wetenschappen en kunsten.
Book editor (B3)
Leman, M., Cornelis, O., & Ganzevoort, A. (Eds.). (2006). Digitale bibliotheken voor muzikale
audio: perspectieven en tendensen in digitalisering, archivering en ontsluiting van
muziek. Brussel: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en
Kunsten.

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