MUSICAL METACREATION (MUME)
The MUME workshop series brings together artists/researchers interested in developing systems that autonomously (or interactively) recognize, learn, represent, complete, accompany, compose or interpret music. We particularly encourage submissions describing online systems (i.e., with some real-time aspects) that are relevant to both art and gaming communities.The workshop will be one-and-a-half day event including:
- Technical Paper presentations: we welcome technical papers relevant to the topics of the workshop.
- Position paper presentation: we welcome position papers that discuss any aspect relevant to the topic at hand and its future. We do encourage reports from research groups as well as individual researchers.
- Demo presentations: the demo session will be intertwined with presentations and presented in a sequential way. Given the sound-intensive nature of the type of work presented, normal poster-style demo sessions have proven to be problematic. Each demo will revolve around a working system.
- A panel of industrial speakers will be organised (depending on the number and nature of submissions).
- A special session presenting the winning entries of the Neukom Turing Test for the Art 2018 music competition (lead by Pr. Michael Casey): http://bregman.dartmouth.edu/turingtests/node/72
- Furthermore, a regular round table and panel discussion will take place. Other tentative topics for panels include: international collaborations, evaluation methodologies, industry engagement, generative music in art versus games, generative system for sound design (sounds effects, music and voices), ...
- As with past workshops, an informal dinner will be organized for workshop participants on one evening (date depends on other events).
One of the main innovations of MUME is that we allow more time for interaction. In order to foster interactions between workshop participants, presentations of long papers will be 20 minutes long with 15 minutes for questions and answers (position papers 15+10, and demo 10+10). As a new twist, reviewers will be asked to propose one or two critical but general questions related to the submission that could be asked to the authors after their presentation. The audience will be invited to react to the author’s response and contribute to the discussion. This format has proven to be successful in previous workshops.
Important Dates
- Workshop submission deadline for late-breaking papers (extended): May 12th, 2018
- Acceptance Notification: May 20th, 2018
- Camera-ready version: May 25th, 2018
- Workshop dates: June 25-26, 2018
Workshop Topics
We welcome papers on any of the following themes:
- Representation and Algorithms for MuMe
- Novel representations of musical information
- Advances or applications of AI, machine learning, and statistical techniques for generative music
- Advances or applications of evolutionary computing or agent and multiagent-based systems for generative music
- Big data, crowdsourcing and distributed approaches in musical metacreation
- Systems and Applications of MuMe
- Systems for autonomous or interactive music composition
- Systems for automatic generation of expressive musical interpretation
- Systems for learning or modelling music style and structure
- Systems for intelligently remixing or recombining musical material
- Online musical systems (i.e. systems with a real-time element)
- Adaptive and generative music in video games
- Techniques and systems for supporting human musical creativity
- Applications of musical metacreation for digital entertainment: sound design, soundtracks, interactive art, etc.
- Evaluation of MuMe
- Methodologies for qualitative or quantitative evaluation of MuMe
- Studies reporting on the evaluation of MuMe
- Theory, and Social Impact of MuMe
- Computational models of human musical creativity
- Discussion of new genres and communities of practice related to MuMe
- Socio-economic impact, authorship and legal implications of MuMe
For an idea of MuMe relevant material please review the proceedings of the Musical Metacreation Workshop. The workshop has been running since 2012 as part of the AAAI's AI in Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) conference: http://www.aaai.org/Library/Wo
Submissions
Papers should be 8 pages in length, in the ICCC format. All papers should be submitted via easychair: insert easychair link here. You can find an author toolkit with the ICCC format for LaTeX and Word here. To submit the manuscript, you should use the Easychair platform: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mume2018
Organizers
- Dr. Philippe Pasquier (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
- Dr. Arne Eigenfeldt (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
- Dr. Oliver Bown (University of Sydney, Australia)
- Dr. Kıvanç Tatar (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
