Descripción del proyecto
Simulación por ordenador para explorar posibilidades musicales
En sus famosas conferencias en la Universidad de Harvard en 1973, Leonard Bernstein analizó el proceso que condujo a lo que denominó la crisis de la música del siglo XX. En el proyecto Whither Music?, que lleva el nombre del lema de estas conferencias y está financiado con fondos europeos, se crearán modelos informáticos de composición, interpretación y escucha musicales que podrán utilizarse para explorar desarrollos y alternativas musicales, así como para apoyar la exploración activa del espacio de posibilidades musicales. En el centro se situará un nuevo enfoque de modelización musical estructurada, que utilizará inteligencia artificial, aprendizaje automático y métodos de modelización probabilística para obtener modelos generativos estilísticamente fieles, estrechamente controlables y transparentes que permitan efectuar simulaciones musicalmente significativas y contribuyan a la investigación de la información musical.
Objetivo
"""Whither Music?"" was the motto of Leonard Bernstein's 1973 lectures at Harvard, where he analysed the (inevitable?) process that led to what he called the 20th Century Crisis of Music: the gradual decline of tonality, driven by a takeover of tonal ambiguity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, eventually leading to complete abandonment of tonality in Schönberg's dodecaphony.
WHITHER MUSIC? is a project that aims to establish model-based computer simulation (via methods of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and probabilistic modelling) as a viable methodology for asking questions about musical developments, possibilities and alternatives - for musicology, for didactic purposes, for creative music exploration scenarios. Computer simulation here means the design of predictive or generative computational models of music (of certain styles), learned from large corpora, and their purposeful and skilful application to answer, e.g. ""what if"" questions, make testable predictions, or generate musical material for further analysis, musicological or aesthetic. Making it possible to do this in highly controlled and musically 'valid' ways will require massive research on machine-learning-based music modeling, to obtain generative models that are stylistically faithful, tightly controllable, transparent and explainable - in this way advancing the field of Music Information Research (MIR). At the same time, this will open entirely new possibilities for musicological research, for music education, and for creative engagement with music, some of which will be further explored, in the form of musicological studies, didactic tools and exhibits, and public educational events.
To attain this vision, we will need to thoroughly re-think the way music is modeled in AI systems. The project wants to contribute to a redirection of MIR research towards more musically informed modeling, thus eventually addressing not only the ""Whither Music?"", but also the ""Whither MIR?"" question."
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Régimen de financiación
ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantInstitución de acogida
4040 Linz
Austria