Computer Music
The emerging research group in Computer Music at DCS-IME-USP has been
studying the possible interactions between computational technologies
and musical practice. At first, we have considered the potentialities
of using computational tools to support music composition.
Some researchers in the group have also worked on the relations between
natural language and the language of music, aiming at characterising to what
extent the techniques for text analysis and discourse generation from
computational linguistics can be used for harmonic analysis and generation of
harmonic cadences for accompaniment of popular melodies, for analysis of
scores, and for generation of arrangements for small instrumental ensembles.
We have also worked on the generation of Fractal Musical Structures and we are
now starting a collaborative project with the composer Hermelino Neder in
which we intend to develop software tools to facilitate the use of his new
compositional technique: the Harmonic-Serial Fields.
Recent Publications:
- Silva, Flavio S. C. and Kon, Fabio.
Categorial Grammar and Harmonic Analysis, in the
Proceedings of the Second Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music,
Canela, July, 1995. Also Technical Report RT-MAC-9505a,
Department of Computer Science - IME/USP, 1995.
- Silva, Flavio S. C. and Kon, Fabio.
Stylistic Musical Choices Via Fuzzy Preference Rules,
in the Proceedings of the Congress of International Fuzzy Systems
Association, São Paulo, julho, 1995. Also Technical Report
RT-MAC-9505b, Department of Computer Science - IME/USP, 1995.
- Iazzetta, Fernando H. and Kon, Fabio.
Maxannealing: A Tool for Algorithmic Compostion Based on Simulated
Annealing, in the
Proceedings of the Second Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music,
Canela, July, 1995.
We have already dated some undergraduate
seminars.
Researchers:
Undergraduate students:
- Carlos Eduardo Ribeiro do Valle
- Marcelo Gomes de Queiroz
- Pedro Constantino Campos Donati Jorge
- Robson Feichas Vieira
See also:
II Brazilian Symposium
on Computer Music
The Digital Music group at the
Laboratory of Integrated Systems(LSI) at POLI/USP.
The Silicon Highway in
the University of California at San Diego.