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Music as Human Communication: An HCSNet Workshop on the
Science of Music Perception, Performance and Cognition
Monday July 17 - Tuesday July 18, 2006
MARCS Auditory Laboratories (Map)
University of Western Sydney (Bankstown - Milperra campus)
Convenors: Kate Stevens, UWS and Emery Schubert, UNSW
http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/musicperception
Program and Abstract Book (PDF)
The aim of this two-day national workshop is to present and discuss the latest research that investigates human communication in the form of music perception, performance and cognition. The theme is deliberately interdisciplinary to bring together established, early career, and student researchers from psychology, music, acoustics, computer science, linguistics, and speech science.
Topics for discussion might include:
- performance and musical acoustics;
- the development of musical expectancies;
- affect expression and recognition in music;
- near-universal features of music and cross-cultural issues;
- the modularity debate regarding music and language.
Two keynote speakers (Prof Barbara Tillmann from CNRS, France and Prof Laurel Trainor from McMaster University, Canada) and student and staff researchers from around Australia will present their research and discuss methods for rigorous investigation of the arts and consider current knowledge of non-verbal cues to affect such as intensity, tempo, timing and rhythm, phrasing, intonation and prosody. The workshop will also be relevant to those interested in music information retrieval.
Day 2 of the workshop will have a more specific focus on applications of music perception and cognition to issues of intonation in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems and naturalness of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. The papers and brainstorming sessions on Day 2 will contribute to the HCSNet Priority Areas Effective Interfaces and Human and Machine Speech being designed to stimulate discussion of a new Art-Meets-Science approach to automated speech systems. See: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/priorityareas
Day 1, Monday July 17: Music Perception, Performance & Cognition
Keynote speakers:
Day 2, Tuesday July 18: Music, Communication and Speech Technology
Day 2 will consist of a combination of submitted papers and workshop discussion concerning ways in which knowledge from music psychology, affect and music, and music theory might inform: improved intonation and naturalness of text-to-speech (TTS), and increased adaptability of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Provocative, whimsical or risky abstracts for Day 2 welcome!!
Registration Fee and Form
Nil - the workshop is supported by HCSnet and designed to encourage interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration.
Support is also available for airfares and accommodation for graduate student and staff travel (where needed) from interstate.
Please download the registration form (PDF, Word). The program and Abstract Book (PDF) is now available here.
Workshop Venue Conference Room 1, Building 23,
Bankstown Campus,
University of Western Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Here is the guide how to travel to UWS bankstown campus and the printable map of workshop venue.
Further Information
Please bring your presentation on a memory stick or CD - ensure sound files and/or special fonts are embedded. We will have a data projector and speakers in the conference room.
If you would like to receive updates about the workshop, please send an email message to Clare Howell at MARCS Auditory Labs (c.howell@uws.edu.au). Further information? Drop a line to Kate Stevens: kj.stevens@uws.edu.au
We look forward to seeing you in July!
Kate Stevens and Emery Schubert |
