SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS This is the first issue of the SHOES NEWSLETTER, to keep you updated on progress. We have had many positive and enthousiastic responses, and because the CALL FOR SHOES will appear in ARRAY in 3 weeks there will be more to come. PARTICIPANTS On this mailing list are at the moment: Roger Dannenberg dannenberg@cs.cmu.edu Eric Clarke SF314@city.ac.uk Robert Rowe rower@acf1.nyu.edu Dirkjan Povel povel@nici.kun.nl Piet Vos vos@nici.kun.nl Barry Vercoe bv@media-lab.media.mit.edu Caroline Palmer cpalmer@casbs.stanford.edu Jacqueline Jones jajbc@cunyvm.bitnet Richard Parncutt parncutt@sound.music.mcgill.ca David Rosenthal dfr@media.mit.edu Bernard Mont-Reynaud studer@applelink.com Bruce Pennycook brp@music.mcgill.ca Neil Todd N.P.Todd@city.ac.uk H Katayose katayose@inolab.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp Bob Gjerdingen rgjerdingen@ccmail.sunysb.edu Yasuo Horiuchi hory@cs.titech.ac.jp Hozumi Tanaka tanaka@cs.titech.ac.jp Dan Ellis dpwe@media.mit.edu Jeff Bilmes bilmes@cs.berkeley.edu Paul Berg paul@koncon Ed Large large@cis.ohio-state.edu Christopher Longuet-Higgins HCLH@epvax.sussex.ac.uk Chris Chaffe cc@ccrma.stanford.edu Devin McAuley mcauley@cs.indiana.edu Steffen Brandorff sbrand@daimi.aau.dk Peter Desain desain@nici.kun.nl Henkjan Honing honing@mars.let.uva.nl REQUIREMENTS We would like to open up the session to all research in the area. Because it is such a difficult topic, we think that even partial models can contribute much insight to the field. So please don't hesitate to join even if your stuff is non-realtime, needs quantized note durations, requires an intial beat setting, is applicable only to cyclic patterns, looks-ahead (or hears-ahead), works only for a specific musical style, does not work at all, or whatever other limitations apply - as long as you are clear about it. ICMC 94 SESSION We have had a positive respons from Steffen Brandorff of the ICMC 94 Paper committee: there can be a special session on beat- trackers and foottapping - the format (number and time of presentations) is still under discussion. All participants need to submit a paper. During this session we wil supply a mechanical tapping shoe for demonstrations, this device (reacting on MIDI- keyons on a specific channel) is now under development - a next SHOES NEWSLETTER will contain the details. Let us know if you plan to submit a paper to this session, and ideas about a preferable paper size/length. PLEASE NOTE that the deadline for submitting abstracts to the ICMC is Febr 1, 1994. Contact icmc94@daimi.aau.dk for a CALL FOR PAPERS, if you not already have one. LITERATURE We would like to compile and distribute a list of references to the relevant literature - so please respond with the central references to your work. The following is a brief first start of such a list - please modify, delete and add: Dannenberg, R.B. & B Mont-Reynaud (1987) "Following an improvisation in real time" proceedings ICMC 1987, 241 - 248. Desain, P. (1992) "A (de)composable theory of rhythm perception". Music Perception, 9(4), 439-454. Longuet-Higgins, H.C. (1976) "The Perception of Melodies" Nature 263: 646-653 also in Longuet-Higgins, H.C.(1987). Mental Processes. Cambridge, Mass.:MIT Press. Longuet-Higgins, H.C. & C.S. Lee (1982) "Perception of musical rhythms." Perception. 11, 115-128 Povel, D.J. & P. Essens (1985). "Perception of temporal Patterns". Music Perception. 2(4):411-440 Rosenthal, D. (1988) "A Model of the process of listening to simple rhythms" proceedings ICMC 1988, 189 - 197. TEST SUITE We want to set up and distribute a suite of test material for foot-tappers. Please submit your favourite pieces - preferably short crucial tests. We need some text describing the material (is it score or performance data, are the note onsets the only relevant information, or are the note durations and pitch, amplitude relevant as well?), and possibly some sort of correct beat (and how that was decided upon). Standard MIDI files will be a good exchange format, but we welcome other formats too. We are currently collecting data directly from articles (Longuet- Higgins and Povel). The next SHOES NEWSLETTER will give more detail. MICRO VERSIONS We are working on a set of small open LISP implementations of relevant models and systems for research and education. If you want your algorithm in too, we need detailed info and the source code in LISP, Pascal, C, Prolog, or whatever language you are using. Please trim the stuff first (if possible) from all unnecessary detail, but (if possible) submit a working program with a small test example. We are aiming at central ideas that can be expressed in a few pages of LISP code. The authors will receive the micro-versions before we will publish them. They may withold approval if they think we have not correctly expressed their ideas. We will not use or disclose any original software submitted to us under such agreement. If the project turns out to be succesful, we may ask authors to help with a joint publication on the models. The set currently consists of algorithms from the following articles or published programs: Longuet-Higgins (1976, 1979) musical parser Longuet-Higgins & Lee's (1982) initial beat induction algorithm Povel (1985) clock induction algorithm Desain (1992) decomposable theory SHOES NEWS If you have any questions, general observations, or remarks about this project that you would like to share: the SHOES NEWSLETTER is open for contributions. If you want to be removed from the mailing list, please let us know as well. Peter Desain and Henkjan Honing Desain@NICI.KUN.NL SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS SHOES NEWS