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DMRN+1: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2006

Queen Mary, University of London

Wed 20 December 2006

Contents: Introduction | Deadlines | Poster Instructions | Registration | Venue | Hotels | Talks | Posters | Associated Event

News

• Update: Book of Abstracts (pdf) and Photos of the Event now available
• Registration deadline: Monday 11 December 2006
• The Keynote Speaker will be: Dr J Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Email problems 15-17 November: We believe that some submissions were lost during a major email server failure in our department. If you have not heard about your proposal, please contact Mark Plumbley (email below) for assistance.

Introduction

Digital music is an important and fast-moving research area. Sophisticated digital tools for the creation, generation and dissemination of music have established clear synergies between music and leisure industries, the use of technology within art, the creative industries and the creative economy. Digital music research is emerging as a "transdiscipline" across the usual academic boundaries of computer science, electronic engineering and music.

The Digital Music Researh Network (DMRN) aims to promote research in the area of Digital Music, by bringing together researchers from UK universities and industry in electronic engineering, computer science, and music. Initially funded by EPSRC (2002-2005), activities of DMRN includes an annual Doctoral Research Conference series and a series of 1-day Workshops.

DMRN will be holding its next 1-day workshop on Wednesday 20 December 2006. The workshop will include invited and contributed talks, and posters will be on display during the day, including during the lunch and coffee breaks.

The workshop will be an ideal opportunity for networking with other people working in the area. There will also be an opportunity to continue discussions after the Workshop in a nearby Pub/Restaurant. For photographs of last year's event, see http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/albums/051221/

Call for Contributions

[All calls are now closed]

You are invited to submit a proposal for a talk and/or a poster to be presented at this event.

Talks may range from the latest research, through research overviews or surveys, to opinion pieces or position statements, particularly those likely to be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience. Most talks will be 20 to 30 minutes, although there may be some flexibility to accommodate other lengths depending on the number of submissions. Short announcement about other items of interest (e.g. future events or other networks) are also welcome.

Posters can be on any research topic of interest to the members of the network. Posters (A0 portrait) will be on display through the day, including lunch break and coffee breaks. The poster abstracts will be collated into a digest and distributed on the day, and authors will be encouraged to submit an electronic versions of posters (e.g. in PDF format) to allow the posters to be viewed after the event.

Submission

Please submit your talk or poster proposal in the form of an abstract (maximum 1 page of A4) in an email to Mark Plumbley at mark.plumbley@elec.qmul.ac.uk giving the Authors, Title and Abstract of your poster.

Abstract submission deadlines: 20 November 2006 (talks) and 27 November 2006 (posters).

You will be notified of poster acceptance by 1 December 2006.

• Email failure 15-17 Nov: Apologies to anyone who submitted a proposal for a talk during the period 15-17 November 2006. A major email server failure occurred, which we now know meant that messages received during that period were simply lost without any bounceback. If you submitted a proposal and have not heard anything, please contact Mark Plumbley at the email above for assistance.

Deadlines

• 20 Nov 2006: Abstract submission deadline for talks
• 27 Nov 2006: Abstract submission deadline for posters
•   1 Dec 2006: Notification of acceptance
• 11 Dec 2006: Registration Deadline
• 20 Dec 2006: Workshop

Poster Instructions

Each poster must fit on a poster board that is 3 feet (91.4 cm) wide and 6 feet (182.9 cm) tall. However, posters should not reach down to the floor as this makes them hard to read. Posters should therefore be no more than 85 cm (33.5 in) wide and no more than 119 cm (46.9 in) tall (i.e., no larger than A0 portrait or A1 landscape).

IMPORTANT: Posters wider than the stated dimensions will not fit on the poster boards. A0 landscape is TOO WIDE.

Provisional Programme

* - There will be an opportunity to continue discussions after the Workshop in a nearby Pub/Restaurant.

See below for titles and authors of Talks and Posters.

Speakers

• J Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Keynote Speaker)
• Nick Collins, University of Sussex
• Nicholas Cook, Royal Holloway University of London
• John Fitch, University of Bath
• Ichiro Fujinaga, McGill University
• Graham Hair, University of Glasgow
• Mark Sandler, Queen Mary University of London
• Geraint Wiggins, Goldsmiths College, University of London
• Jennifer MacRitchie, University of Glasgow
• Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut, Queen Mary University of London

Registration

A small registration fee is payable, to cover room hire & refreshments.

* A letter from institution confirming your student status must be faxed (or posted) with your registration form.

Places are strictly limited, and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Registration deadline: Monday 11 December 2006.

How to Register

To Register, please download and print the Regsitration Form in one of the following formats:

• Registration Form (PDF format)
• Registration Form (Word format)

Fax (or post) the completed form together with payment in full to the address below.

If you are registering as a student, please include a letter from your institution confirming your student status with your registration form.

Bank Details for Payments

Payable to: Queen Mary University of London
Bank: Barclays Bank plc
Whitechapel Road London E1 4NS, UK
Sort Code: 20-57-06
Account No: 40736805
Reference: DMRN+1
Swift Number: BARCGB22
IBAN: GB 21 BARC 2057 0640 7368 05

Address to send registration forms:

Theresa Willis
Queen Mary, University of London
Department of Electronic Engineering
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 7513
Fax: +44-(0)20 7882 7997
Email: theresa.willis@elec.qmul.ac.uk

Venue

The Event will take place at the People's Palace, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS.

The venue is easily accessible by public transport. It is within a five minute walk of both Mile End Underground station (Central, District, and Hammersmith & City lines) and Stepney Green Underground station (District, and Hammersmith & City lines).

For travel information, see [opens in new window]:

• Mile End Campus of Queen Mary University of London
• Map of the campus showing the People's Palace
• Location of the venue from streetmap.co.uk or multimap.com

Hotels

Suggested hotels for staying before or after the workshop:

• Ibis Hotel, London Stratford (about 30 mins from the venue)
• St Giles Hotel, Central London (about 35 mins from the venue)

For relative locations and travel between these hotels and Queen Mary University of London see ISMIR 2005 Maps.

Talks

KEYNOTE:
The Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX): Lessons Learned and Future Visions
J Stephen Downie,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Realtime Machine Listening
Nick Collins
University of Sussex

Creating a musicological toolkit: CHARM and the Mazurkas project
Nicholas Cook
Royal Holloway, University of London

Towards a Grid Composition Environment
John Fitch, James Mitchell and Julian Padget
University of Bath

Digital Music Library Research at McGill University
Ichiro Fujinaga
McGill University

Tools for Expert Musicians for Practising and Rehearsing Microtonal Music
Graham Hair*, Ingrid Pearson+, Nick Bailey* and Doug McGilvray
*University of Glasgow, +Royal College of Music

Multi-modal acquisition of performance parameters for analysis of Chopin's B flat minor piano sonata finale Op.35
Jennifer MacRitchie, Nicholas J.Bailey and Graham Hair
University of Glasgow

Information Dynamics in Music Cognition
Marcus T. Pearce and Geraint A. Wiggins
Goldmiths College, University of London

Music 2.0 at Queen Mary
Mark Sandler and Josh Reiss
Queen Mary University of London

Visual Interfaces to Musical Composition
Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut
Queen Mary University of London

Posters

Information dynamics and musical structure
Samer Abdallah and Mark Plumbley
Queen Mary University of London

Aspects of Similarity
Hamish Allan and Geraint Wiggins
Goldsmiths College, University of London

A Locality Sensitive Hashing Algorithm for Fast Song Similarity
Michael A. Casey* and Malcolm Slaney+
* - Goldsmiths, University of London, + - Yahoo! Research Inc.

Splunge: An Extensible HCI and Audio Network Model
William Evans
Univeristy of Glasgow

Digital Processing and the Assessment of Violin Sound Quality
Colin Gough
University of Birmingham

Causal Contexts, Cognitive Cartoons and Spatial Sound
Peter Lennox* and Tony Myatt+
* - University of Derby, + - University of York

Performance Markup Language: Combining the score and the performance
Douglas McGilvray
University of Glasgow

Review of Musically Useful Audio Distortion Effects
Mark V. Oliver
Coventry University

Poisson Point Process Modelling for Polyphonic Music Transcription
Paul Peeling, Chung-fai Li, Simon Godsill
Cambridge University Engineering Department

A Case Study in Digital Music Preservation With Calliope and DFDL
Stuart Pullinger and Nicholas J. Bailey
University of Glasgow

Single Channel Audio Separation by Non-negative Matrix Factorization
Beiming Wang and Mark Plumbley
Queen Mary University of London

Adaptive Spectrogram
Xue Wen and Mark Sandler
Queen Mary University of London

Ontology-Based Annotation of Harmonic Structure
Jens Wissmann and Tillman Weyde
City University, London

Associated Events

This DMRN Workshop (20 December 2006) at Queen Mary University of London is preceded by the Live Algorithms for Music Meeting (18-19 December 2006) at Goldsmiths College, London.

Delegates wishing to attend both events might like to see the ISMIR 2005 Maps to see relative locations and suggestions for possible hotels.