From: malcolm@interval.com (Malcolm Slaney)
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 14:49:42 -0700
Subject: Music Library and AES
Message-Id: <aadf05de01021004ec00@[199.170.106.94]>

We have an embarassment of riches next Thursday for those of you interested
in music and perception.  Bruce Pennycook will be speaking at 11AM about
his efforts to create a music library on the Internet.  In addition, the
Audio Engineering Society is holding their meeting in San Francisco next
week.  I suspect people on this mailing list will be interested in both
events.

I've appended Bruce's abstract to the end of this note.  We expect this
talk will be of interest to a large number of people who don't usually
attend the Hearing Seminar so we'll hold this discussion in the Ballroom.
Music can be presented so many different ways, how do you provide all the
right pointers so people can easily view and hear the information they
want?

        Who:    Prof. Bruce Pennycook (McGill)
        What:   Music Library of the Future Project
        When:   11AM, Thursday November 10
        Where:  CCRMA Ballroom (Main Floor of the Knoll at Stanford)

Here is the schedule for the rest of the year.  Put these talks on your
calendar so you can attend:
 11/10   Bruce Pennycook (McGill) - Music Library (Also AES in San Francisco)
 11/17   Bhadkamkar/Malcolm (Interval) - Auditory Attention
 11/24   Thanksgiving
 12/1    No Seminar NIPS
 12/8    Steve Shepard (SGI) - Transaural Stereo/Sound Localization
 Holiday Break
As always, let me know if there are people coming through town you think
would be interesting to the group.  We can always move things around.

See you next week.

-- Malcolm

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There are a number of interesting perception talks at the AES meeting.
Here are the ones that I see:

Thursday Morning (Nov. 10)
        Perceptual Issues in Multi-channel environments --- R. Stuart
        Quantifying the multi-channel environment --- K. Graffy
        Mutli-channel perception/localization --- Diana Deutsche (UCSD)

Friday Morning (Nov. 11)
        A Time-frequency auditory model using wavelets  -- F Agerkvist (Denmark)
        Uncoupled model of Basilar Membrane Vibration --- Linggard (UK)
        Evaluation of the "Cocktail Pary Effect" for
                multiple speech stimulai within a spatial
                auditory display --- Crispien (Berlin)

Friday at 2PM (Nov. 11)
        Special workshop on 3d sound (mostly looks like transaural stereo)

Sunday Morning (Nov. 13)
        Objective Quality Assesment in Perceptual Audio Coding:
                New resulting using the POM system --- Colomes (France)
        Parametric Bit Allocation in a Perceptual Audio Coder
                --- Grant (Dolby SF)

For more information, contact the AES at 800 541-7299




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The Music Library of the Future Project:
Segmenting and playing multiple music formats


Dr. Bruce Pennycook

Chair, Music Technology
Faculty of Music
McGill University
Miontreal, Canada

Abstract


The Music Library of the Future Project at the Faculty of Music,
McGill University aims to develop new tools for the preparation and
presentation of music information on the World Wide Web. Funded by
the Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and
Education (CANARIE) and directed by B. Pennycook, this project has
produced a unique WWW site for hypermedia presentation of musical
information in the form of text, scores, audio, MIDI, and video
clips.


A central problem in the preparation of hypermedia documents is the
linking of regions of interest (hot points) across several datatypes.
This talk will present the key issues regarding the segmentation of
the data, how the segments are linked, and how these links can be
presented using a new set of multi-format "players" under development
for Macintosh, Windows, and X-Windows versions of Mosaic. Of
particular interest is the development of semi-automatic tools to
minimize the task of data preparation. Unless the tasks of data
collection and preparation are at least partially automated, the
immense volumes of musical information that could be made public over
the internet will remain on library stacks indefinitely.

Those interested in these issues should attach to the MLF site at the
URL given below and observe  the materials under the Canadian
Composer Portraits section of the project.


Music Library of the Future URL

http://lecaine.music.mcgill.ca