An Integrated Framework for Transcription, Modal and Motivic Analysis of Ma am ImprovisationOlivier LartillotFinnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research

Mondher AyariUniversity of Strasbourg, France

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Creativity/Music/CultureResearch project funded by French ANR

U. Strasbourg, Ircam-CNRS, U. Jyväskylä

Ethnomusicology / Music perception & cognition / Computational modeling

Oral traditions in

Mediterranean Bassin (Tunisia, Turkey, Morocco, Greece,...)

Maqam world (Arabic maqam, Turkish makam, Azerbaijan mugam, Uyghur muqam, ...)

Computational ModellingInteraction

Perception-tested Database analysis

Implementation of theoretical models

Computational predictions can question hypotheses

Analysis, Perception, Cognition

Creativity/Music/Culture

Patterns specific to modes

Culturalknowledge

Acousticfeatures

Segmentation and recognition heuristics

Discontinuities between auditory attributes

Parallelism, repeated patterns

Event stability within functional hierarchy

Transition between modes or subscales

Formal, stylistic schemas

Audio

Note onset detection

Score

Transc

ription

Rhythmic quantizingPitch discretization

Motivic Harmonic/ModalMetrical

Structure, form Style

Culture

Pitch spelling

Patterns

Dynamics Timbre Freqs, periodicities

SemanticAffectiveThe MiningSuite

SigMinrSignal processing

AudiMinrAuditory modeling

MusiMinrpitchrhythmtempomodetonalitymotifform...

PatMinrPattern mining

DisMinrDiscrete processing

AbstMinrAbstract concept mining

CultMinrmaqammakam...

The MiningSuite

Retentional Syntagmatic Network

syntagmatic connection syntagmatic path

syntagmatic surface

Retentional Syntagmatic Network

syntagmatic connection

syntagmatic surface

segmentationdiscontinuity vs.

connectioncontinuity

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