Talks

CON ESPRESSIONE

Towards Expressivity-aware Computer Systems in Music

Public Talks and Presentations Related to the Con Espressione Project

June 2021: Carlos Eduardo Cancino Chacon, opens an external URL in a new window Carlos talks about Bruckner Symphony analysis at the 1st MIRAGE Symposium on Computational Musicology, opens an external URL in a new window, Oslo, Norway.
Feb. 2021: Gerhard Widmer, opens an external URL in a new window gives Keynote Speech at the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2021), opens an external URL in a new window, Vienna, Austria.
April 1, 2020: Carlos Eduardo Cancino Chacon, opens an external URL in a new window gives a talk on "Modeling Expressive Performance with Machine Learning", opens an external URL in a new window in the RITMO "Food and Paper" Series (Oslo, Norway)
Mar 5-6, 2020: Carlos Eduardo Cancino Chacon, opens an external URL in a new window presents work on machine listening for performance analysis at the Music Listening Workshop of the RITMO Project , opens an external URL in a new window(University of Oslo)
Nov. 15, 2019: Gerhard Widmer to give a Keynote Presentation at the Augmenting Performance Conference, opens an external URL in a new window, International Center for Research and Education in Innovative Creative Technologies (CINETic), Bucharest, Romania.
Nov. 2019:
Tutorial on Computational Modeling of Musical Expression, opens an external URL in a new window to be given by Carlos Cancino, Maarten Grachten and Katerina Kosta at the ISMIR 2019 Conference, opens an external URL in a new window, Delft, the Netherlands.
Oct. 16, 2019:
Verena Haunschmid and Shreyan Chowdhury give an invited presentation on "Explainable Models and Their Application in Music Emotion Recognition, opens an external URL in a new window" at the Acoustics Research Institute, opens an external URL in a new window of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
Sept. 2019:
Video on our AI & Music Research, opens an external URL in a new window to be shown at the Ars Electronica AI x Music Festival 2019, opens an external URL in a new window
June 24, 2019:
Gerhard Widmer gives Invited Presentation at the Opening of the Ars Electronica Center, opens an external URL in a new window's new AI x Music Permanent Exhibition, opens an external URL in a new window.
May 27, 2019:
Con-Espressione-supported interactive installation "The Listening Machine" is presented in the new permanent exhibition "COMPASS - Navigating the Future", opens an external URL in a new window at the Ars Electronica Center (AEC), opens an external URL in a new window, Linz.
May 2019:
Interactive exhibit "Con Espressione" (joint human-computer control of expressive performance) to be presented at the la.la.lab Science Exhibition, opens an external URL in a new window ("The Mathematics of Music") in Heidelberg, Germany (in the context of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, opens an external URL in a new window; details & videos to come). Here is the official exhibition poster, opens a file .
May 2019:
Tutorial on Cross-modal Music Retrieval and Applications, opens an external URL in a new window given by Meinard Müller, Andreas Arzt, and Stefan Balke at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019), opens an external URL in a new window, Brighton, U.K.
Apr 29 - May 01, 2019:
Con Espressione Project co-organises the Herbert von Karajan Conference 2019, opens an external URL in a new window (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria). Here is the program booklet, opens an external URL in a new window.
2018-05-25:
Gerhard Widmer, opens an external URL in a new window to curate a science pavilion on "AI & Music" at the BE OPEN Science & Society Festival, opens an external URL in a new window, Vienna, Sept. 8-12, 2018 (on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), opens an external URL in a new window).

2018-03-19:
Public presentation by Gerhard Widmer at the Kepler Salon, opens an external URL in a new window, Linz, Austria.
2018-03-14:
Public presentation by Gerhard Widmer at the LIT Lectures, opens an external URL in a new window, Linz Institute of Technology (LIT).
2018-01-27:
Guest lecture by Anna Aljanaki, opens an external URL in a new window on extraction of mid-level features related to musical expression and emotion at the Music and Emotion Workshop, opens an external URL in a new window (Journée d'étude: TICs, Musique et Émotion), Tunis, Tunisia.
2017-10-14:
Keynote by Gerhard Widmer at Slovenian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, opens an external URL in a new window, Ljubljana.
2017-04-13:
Karajan Music Tech Conference, opens an external URL in a new window: 50th Easter Festival (Osterfestspiele), opens an external URL in a new window, Salzburg.
2017-02-23:
CompMusic Seminar, opens an external URL in a new window; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
2017-01-20:
Doctoral Symposium "New Directions in Music, Sound and Theatre Studies", opens an external URL in a new window, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG), Graz, Austria.
2016-11-12:
31st Annual Congress of the European Piano Teachers' Association (EPTA), Austrian Chapter, opens an external URL in a new window; Ars Electronica Center Linz, Austria.
2016-09-13:
ACM Europe womENcourage Conference 2016, opens an external URL in a new window; Linz, Austria.
2015-10-12:
11th European Computer Science Summit (ECCS 2015), opens an external URL in a new window, Informatics Europe; Public ARTEMATICA 2015 Lecture, opens an external URL in a new window; Künstlerhaus (House of Austrian Artists), Vienna.

Acknowledgment

This project receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC), opens an external URL in a new window under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 670035.

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