Special collection: "AI and Musical Creativity”

[Bob Sturm]

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce the publication of the latest articles in the Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR), covering a wide range of topics from ethical issues with AI in music creation, Leitmotif detection in opera recordings, diversity in recommender systems, singing voice separation, estimation of beat and meter in Colombian Bambuco, a dataset paper featuring harmonic analyses of all piano sonatas by W.A. Mozart, to several articles on improving automatic chord recognition from audio and symbolic formats, as well as the first series of articles released in the Special Collection on AI and Musical Creativity. 

Special Collection "AI and Musical Creativity” (first papers published, stay tuned for more to come!)

Guest editors: Bob L.T. Sturm, Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd, Anna Huang and Hendrik Vincent Koops

Where Does the Buck Stop? Ethical and Political Issues with AI in Music Creation, by Fabio Morreale, http://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.86

Drumroll Please: Modeling Multi-Scale Rhythmic Gestures with Flexible Grids, by Jon Gillick, Joshua Yang, Carmine-Emanuele Cella & David Bamman, http://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.98

‘We Are Not Groupies. . . We Are Band Aids’: Assessment Reliability in the AI Song Contest, by John Ashley Burgoyne & Hendrik Vincent Koops, https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.102

Evaluating Creativity in Automatic Reactive Accompaniment of Jazz Improvisation, by Fabian Ostermann, Igor Vatolkin & Günter Rudolph, http://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.90

Research papers

Make That Sound More Metallic: Towards a Perceptually Relevant Control of the Timbre of Synthesizer Sounds Using a Variational Autoencoder, by Fanny Roche,Thomas Hueber, Maëva Garnier, Samuel Limier & Laurent Girin, http://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.76

Automatic Hierarchy Expansion for Improved Structure and Chord Evaluation, by Katherine M. Kinnaird & Brian McFee, http://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.71

On End-to-End White-Box Adversarial Attacks in Music Information Retrieval, by Katharina Prinz, Arthur Flexer & Gerhard Widmer, http://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.85

Towards Leitmotif Activity Detection in Opera Recordings, by Michael Krause, Meinard Müller & Christof Weiß, http://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.116

Improving Audio Chord Estimation by Alignment and Integration of Crowd-Sourced Symbolic Music,  by Daphne Odekerken, Hendrik Vincent Koops & Anja Volk, http://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.81

Audio and Music Analysis on the Web using Essentia.js, by Albin Correya, Jorge Marcos-Fernández, Luis Joglar-Ongay, Pablo Alonso-Jiménez, Xavier Serra & Dmitry Bogdanov, http://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.111

On Evaluation of Inter- and Intra-Rater Agreement in Music Recommendation, by Arthur Flexer, Taric Lallai & Katja Rašl, http://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.107

Audiovisual Singing Voice Separation, by Bochen Li, Yuxuan Wang & Zhiyao Duan, http://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.108

Sesquialtera in the Colombian Bambuco: Perception and Estimation of Beat and Meter, by Estefania Cano, Fernando Mora-Ángel, Gustavo Adolfo López Gil, José Ricardo Zapata, Antonio Escamilla, Juan Fernando Alzate Londoño & Moisés Betancur Peláez, http://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.118

Sliding-Window Pitch-Class Histograms as a Means of Modeling Musical Form, by Uri B. Rom & Dror Chawin, https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.83

Dataset papers

The Annotated Mozart Sonatas: Score, Harmony, and Cadence, by Johannes Hentschel, Markus Neuwirth & Martin Rohrmeier, http://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.63

Overview papers

Diversity by Design in Music Recommender Systems, by Lorenzo Porcaro, Carlos Castillo & Emilia Gómez, http://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.106

We would like to thank all authors, reviewers, and guest editors involved in these publications for their excellent work! We look forward tor receiving your submissions to TISMIR in the coming year!

Kind regards,

Simon Dixon, Emilia Gómez and Anja Volk (Editors-in-Chief),

on behalf of the editorial team:

Matthew Davies, Johanna Devaney, Arthur Flexer, Xiao Hu, Olivier Lartillot, Jin Ha Lee, Florence Levé, Meinard Mueller, Bryan Pardo, Geoffroy Peeters, Markus Schedl, Bob L. T. Sturm, Julián Urbano

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Bob L. T. Sturm, Associate Professor

Speech, Music and Hearing

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Sweden
https://highnoongmt.wordpress.com