Highlights/Upcoming events

MCM2015 - Mathematics and computation in music conference, London

Posted by dorien on Wednesday, 29 April 2015

I will present a paper written by Matteo Balliauw, Dorien Herremans, Daniel Palhazi Cuervo and Kenneth Sörensen on "Generating fingerings for polyphonic piano music with a tabu search algorithm" at MCM2015:

The Fifth Biennial International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM2015) will be held on 22-25 June-2015 at Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. MCM is the flagship conference of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music, whose official publication is the Journal of Mathematics and Music.

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An easy way to parse musicXML files in java

Posted by dorien on Thursday, 5 February 2015

For a recent project, I wrote a musicXML parser in java. The code is available on Bitbucket.

MusicXMLparserDH is a java musicXML parser that parses a musicXML file in Note objects with have properties such as pitch, accidental, duration, start time etc. It outputs an ArrayList that contains all of the Notes in sequence. A list of notes per time slice is also provided. The main time saver in using this library is that the note onsets are already calculated.

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ORBEL29 - Antwerp is hosting the annual Belgian Operations Research Conference

Posted by dorien on Saturday, 17 January 2015

This year, the ANT/OR group organises the ORBEL conference. ORBEL29 is the 29th conference on Operations Research (OR), reuniting the Belgian research community on OR-related topics. ORBEL29 is about exchanging ideas and insights, by stimulating interaction and discussion. The host institution of this year's conference is the University of Antwerp. This vivid city is located on the banks of the River Scheldt, and home to one of the largest seaports in the world. The name Antwerp is synonymous with diamonds, culture, art, Rubens and fashion.

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Lorentz Workshop on Music Similarity

Posted by dorien on Friday, 16 January 2015

Concepts, Cognition and Computation
from 19 Jan 2015 through 23 Jan 2015

Venue: Lorentz Center@Oort, Lorentz Center for Workshops in the Sciences, Leiden, Netherlands

Scientific Organizers:
Christina Anagnostopoulou (Athens, Greece)
Elaine Chew (London, United Kingdom)
Elizabeth Margulis (Fayetteville, USA)
Anja Volk (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

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Dance Hit Prediction in Journal of New Music Research

Posted by dorien on Wednesday, 1 October 2014

I'm happy to announce that the latest issue of Journal of New Music Research (special issue on Music and Machine Learning) features a publication about Dance Hit Prediction

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Bridges Seoul - Counterpoint generation with Optimization techniques

Posted by dorien on Thursday, 28 August 2014

I gave a talk at the Bridges conference on Mathematics and Arts in Seoul, South-Korea. The topic was about the paper described details on the variable neighbourhood search algorithm that can efficiently generate music:

Herremans D., Sörensen K.. 2012. Composing first species counterpoint musical scores with a variable neighbourhood search algorithm. Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. 6:169-189.

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