Thanks to generous support from the University of Oslo, the Department of Musicology is happy to invite you to the inauguration of a new Yamaha Disklavier. This grand piano, which has advanced sensors and actuators, allows for high-fidelity recording and playback of piano performances.
Join us for an event packed with performances and discussions of innovative approaches to research in music, gesture, and interactive systems. Themes include how new technologies facilitate better learning, the possibilities of self-playing instruments, new approaches to analysing gestures in performance, and approaches to controlling and interacting with instruments. The event will also feature live motion and data capture of musicians in action,
We are particularly excited about a keynote performance-lecture by internationally acclaimed pianist Pavlos Antoniadis. He will demonstrate multiple approaches to learning complex piano music, featuring work by Iannis Xenakis, Brian Ferneyhough, and Gy?rgy Ligeti. Emphasis will be given to developing interactive multimodal systems for symbolic rhythm learning based on 4E cognition. Deciphering complex notated rhythms through AI-assisted physical movement, but also generating complex rhythms in AI-assisted comprovisation settings, are the main takeaways of this performance-lecture.
Stream
The event will be streamed on YouTube
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Programme
- 12:15: Welcome and unveiling of the Disklavier - Vice Dean for Research Mathilde Skoie, RITMO Director Alexander Refsum Jensenius, and IMV Head of Research Peter Edwards
- 12:30: Rolf Inge God?y (Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Musicology, UiO): "Analysis-by-synthesis’ strategies for research"
- 12:50: Alexander Refsum Jensenius (Professor and Director of RITMO, UiO): Twenty Years of Piano Research at UiO
- 13:20: Vincenzo Madaghiele (Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Musicology, UiO): "Stutter". A piece for self-playing piano and live electronics in which a piano improvises while listening to a distorted version of itself.
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13:40: Laura Bishop (Researcher, RITMO, UiO), Sara D'Amario (Postdoctoral fellow and pianist, RITMO, UiO), Kristina Socanski Celik (Doctoral Fellow and pianist, Dept. of Musicology, UiO), Sonja Markovi? (pianist): "Four-Handed Piano Performance".
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14:05: Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacón (Assistant Professor, Institute of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University Linz): "The ACCompanion: An Expressive Interactive Accompaniment System".
- 14:30: Break
- 15:00: Pavlos Antoniadis (Associate Professor in Music Communication and Technology, and pianist, Department of Music Studies, University of Ioannina): "Human and AI synergies for the embodiment of complex rhythm"
Convened By Peter Edwards (Head of Research, Dept. of Musicology, UiO)
Technical support: Aleksander Tiedemann (Senior Engineer, Dept. of Musicology, UiO). Hugh von Arnim (PhD student at RITMO) has helped with planning and running the data capture, and Kayla Burnim has provided critical technical support.
