Project description Technologies and scientific foundations in the field of creativityLrn2Cre8 aims to understand the relationship between learning and creativity by means of practical engineering, theoretical study, and cognitive comparison. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Lrn2Cre8 aims to understand the relationship between learning and creativity by means of practical engineering, theoretical study, and cognitive comparison. We begin from the position that creativity is a function of memory, that generates new structures based on memorised ones, by processes which are essentially statistical. Thus, the project is situated in the tradition of frequentist statistical models of mind, and it builds on statistical understandings of perception of sequence (these are not naive 1st-order statistics) to consider its domain at the level of sequence processing in terms of percepts. Representations of these percepts are also learned, in parallel with the structural information in the data itself, and the guiding principle is one of information efficiency: the representations conspire to produce the most efficient possible representation of the data in memory. In Lre2Cre8, we wish to avoid the problem of extrinsic domain reasoning (e.g. physics in the real world) so we use music as our domain; extrinsic reasoning for music is small in comparison. We propose to build systems that take musical data as input, both in continuous and discrete forms, and learn the necessary representations and structure to memorise it efficiently. We hypothesise that this is a cognitive model of human musical behaviour, and we will test our hypthesis though empirical studies and experiments that compare the behaviour of our computational models with human behaviours. We will study the relationship between our well-understood and cognitively validated learning mechanisms and creative behaviour, in musical composition and performance. We aim to devise new methods for evaluation of creative behaviour in machines and humans, and to apply them, comparatively, to creative processes and outputs of the project. We aim ultimately to produce music which will be of genuine interest to society, and we will launch a record label to promote it as part of our evaluation methods. Fields of science natural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsstatistics and probability Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2013.8.1 - Technologies and scientific foundations in the field of creativity Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2013-10 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Address 327 mile end road E1 4NS London United Kingdom See on map Region London Inner London — East Tower Hamlets Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Reuben Almeida (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 626 620,00 Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all RE-COMPOSE GMBH Austria EU contribution € 40 500,00 Address Laudongasse 47/41 1080 Wien See on map Region Ostösterreich Wien Wien Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Stefan Oertl (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window OSTERREICHISCHE STUDIENGESELLSCHAFTFUR KYBERNETIK VEREIN Austria EU contribution € 490 300,00 Address Freyung 6/6/7 1010 Wien See on map Region Ostösterreich Wien Wien Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Karin Vorsteher (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window AALBORG UNIVERSITET Denmark EU contribution € 500 840,00 Address Fredrik bajers vej 7k 9220 Aalborg See on map Region Danmark Nordjylland Nordjylland Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Gitte Sørensen (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA Spain EU contribution € 440 906,00 Address Barrio sarriena s n 48940 Leioa See on map Region Noreste País Vasco Bizkaia Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Charo Sánchez (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window SONY EUROPE LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 400 450,00 Address The heights brooklands KT13 0XW Weybridge See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Sophie Boucher (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window
