IR for Contemporary Music: What the Musicologist Needs

Active listening is the core of musical activity Listening does not only concern receiving musical information. On the contrary, it is "active" and based on a set of interactions between listeners and musical documents--including automatic music information research and extraction--so as to discover intentions. This recognition process is based on the observation of regularities and rules, in order to build "forms" from all indications, information and redundancies. The listener interprets all the signs that are meaningful for him as intentions, attributed to the composer. Features of computer assisted listening Let us specify further the active listening situation for the musicologist, taking for example the consultation of a document in such a digital library as IRCAM's. The musicologist is facing a computer screen, while handling scores and books. This terminal allows him, among many other possibilities, to listen to music, to access musical data bases and ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ISMIR
• Authors: Alain Bonardi
• Keywords: Active Listening, ISMIR 2000, Music, Musical Activity Listening, Musicologist