- Interacting at the Symbolic and Structural Levels
A. Barate - Automatic synchronisation between audio and score musical description layers
A. D'Aguanno, G. Vercellesi - The Concept of Interactive Music: the New Standard IEEE P1599 / MX
Denis Baggi - Interacting with Csound Timbral Textures (short paper)
E. Russo - Outline of the MX standard (short paper)
L. A. Ludovico
MX: the IEEE International Standard for Interactive Music
Motivation and Objectives
The standard is meant to show that music enjoyment can consist not only of passive listening of binary audio files, but may be instead a navigational adventure in music in a full multimedia environment, well beyond that of current DVD’s. This includes exploration of sounds, images, video, scores, texts and hypertexts, with the possibility of learning thanks to historical and musicological data. This allows full exploitation of the potential of current hardware, in a novel way, from personal computers to portable players with displays, passing through systems for home theatre and future audio-video systems.
Session Outline
The session will feature a new IEEE standard under completion to represent musical information thanks to interactive and synchronized layers. The first proposed contribution, The Concept of Interactive Music, gives an overall view of the structural and formal characteristics of the standard. The following ones explore the possibilities of the application of the standard in regard to the several levels typical of music fruition: musical forms, scores, sound aspects and audio. Particular emphasis will be given on how this new standard allows synchronous interaction among all musical representations: audio, printed material, movies, images, and the like.
Specific Topics of Interest
Standards that bridge the multimedia and knowledge domains area. Keywords: music standard, music, XML, multilayer, multimedia, man-machine interaction.
Contact information for the Special Session chairs
Prof. Dr. Denis Baggi
SUPSI, University for Applied Science of Southern Switzerland
Galleria 2
CH-6928 Manno, Switzerland
denis.baggi@supsi.ch
Prof. Dr. Goffredo Haus
Laboratorio di Informatica Musicale (LIM), Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione (DICo), Università degli Studi di Milano
Via Comelico, 39/41
I-20135 Milan, Italy
haus@dico.unimi.it
Accepted Papers