Elaine Chew and Alexandre François are co-organizers of a Visions & Voices event titled "Musical Patois — reflections of language in music" in collaboration with neuroscientist Aniruddh Patel and composer Peter Child.
Elaine Chew and Alexandre François are co-organizing an Exploratory Seminar on "Dialog and Prosody in Language and Music" at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
2010.09.30
Video of the concert debut of Mimi (Multimodal Interaction for Musical Improvisation) with Isaac Schankler at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena on Saturday, June 5th, 2010. Presented by People Inside Electronics as part of the concert event Vicious Circles and Deadly Elements. The annotations provided by Isaac reveal the improviser's thought process as the performance unfolds.
2010.09.30
MuCoaCo alum, Ching-Hua Chuan, receives the Grace Hopper Best New Investigator Paper Award at the Grace Hopper Celebration for her paper titled "Hybrid Methods for Generating and Evaluating Style-Specific Accompaniment."
2010.09.25
Elaine Chew gives the Technology Plenary Lecture at the Joint Association for Technology in Musical Instruction - College Music Society Meeting.
2010.09.24
Elaine Chew is an invited speaker at the 2010 NAE FOE Symposium. Her talk in the session on Engineering and Music is titled "De-mystifying Music and Its Performance."
2010.08.19
Geraint Wiggins of Goldsmiths University of London visits and gives a talk at USC on Computational Creativity from a Model of Music Cognition. [ poster pdf ]
2010.08.13
Katie Wolf presents a poster on "Evaluation of Performance-to-Score MIDI Alignment of Piano Duets" (abstract pdf) in the late breaking / demo session at the 11th ISMIR in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
2010.08.12
Ching-Hua Chuan presents a poster on "Quantifying the Benefits of Using an Interactive Decision Support Tool for Creating Musical Accompaniment in a Particular Style" (paper pdf) at the 11th ISMIR in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
2010.08.10
Elaine Chew chairs the first plenary session at the 11th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
2010.07.23
Mimi4x, an interactive installation for high level structural improvisation based on Mimi, was unveiled at IMIDA 2010, an IEEE Conference on Multimedia & Expo workshop.
2010.07.19-23
Chandra Rajagopal attends the CCRMA Workshop on Networked Music Performance, where he explored new technologies in networked performance and experienced firsthand the challenges faced by musicians performing together over distance.
Jeanne Bamberger of MIT/UC-Berkeley visits USC and gives a lecture on "What is Time - a hearing is a performance, a performance is a hearing" at the EE675/ISE575 class [ website ]
2010.03.08
Jiayun Guo of the University of Washington and Katie Wolf of the University of Minnesota are among 70 out of 500 students selected for this summer's CDC/CRA-W Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU). They will be working at the MuCoaCo Lab this summer.
2010.01.28
Aniruddh Patel of the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego visits USC and gives a talk on "Rhythm in Speech and Music": [ pdf ]
2010.01.12
ISE575/EE675/CS575 -- Topics in Engineering Approaches to Music Cognition -- is offered this spring. The topic this year is "Musical Prosody and Interpretation" [ website ]
01.2010
Jonathan Bragg and Anna Huang's review the Mathematics and Computation in Music meeting appears in the Computer Music Journal 34(1): [ html ]
2009.06.19-22
Mathematics and Computation in Music @ Yale University
Elaine Chew is program co-chair, with Adrian Childs, of the Second Biennial International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music, held at Yale University. Ching-Hua Chuan is Publications Chair. Together, Chew, Childs, and Chuan co-edited the refereed conference proceedings, which is published as Volume 38 of the Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science series.
2009.05.27
MuCoaCo is a prospective host for postdoctoral researchers funded through the Computer Innovation Fellows Project. See CIFellows project website and mentor information for further details.
2009.05.23
MuCoaCo alum Ching-Hua Chuan is featured on the cover of Barry Magazine (see spotlight article), the magazine of the Miami Shores university where she now teaches.
2009.04.25
Elaine Chew and Alexandre François organize the symposium on interactions — humans • computers • music at the Radciffe Institute for Advanced Study in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2008.10.10
MuCoaCo alum ChangHyun Kim commences PhD studies in the Bio and Brain Engineering Department at KAIST in South Korea.
2008.09.14-18
International Conference on Music Information Retrieval @ Drexel University
Elaine Chew is program co-chair, with Juan Pablo Bello, of the Ninth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, held at Drexel University. Together with Douglas Turnbull, they co-edited the refereed conference proceedings, which is published by lulu.com. At the conference, Elaine Chew gives a MuSA.RT demonstration and performance, and Ching-Hua Chuan presents a poster.
2008.09.12
MuCoaCo alum Anna Huang commences Computer Science PhD studies in Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
2008.09.10
Congratulations, Arpi Mardirossian, on the birth of Sophie!
2008-2009
Elaine Chew is a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Music Department. Alexandre François is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Tufts University.
2008.08.28
Alex François and Elaine Chew present a paper and ESP at ICMPC 10.
2008.06.11-14
Computational Creativity @ German-American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium
Elaine Chew is co-organizer, with Stefan Bornholdt, of the computational creativity session at the Fourteenth Annual German-American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium in Potsdam, Germany. The GAFOS meetings are co-sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung.
2008.07.11
Ching-Hua Chuan presents a poster at the Music, Language & the Mind conference at Tufts.
2008.06.15
Ching-Hua Chuan accepts a tenure-track assistant professor position at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida..
2008.05.13
Ching-Hua Chuan successfully defends her dissertation titled, "Hybrid Methods for Music Analysis and Synthesis: Audio Key Finding and Automatic Style-Specific Accompaniment." Committee members included Elaine Chew (chair), Alexandre François, Ramesh Govindan, C.-C. Jay Kuo, and Shri Narayanan.
2008.05.13
Erdem Unal successfully defends his dissertation titled, "Music Retrieval Systems: Robust Search Under the Effect of Uncertainty." Committee members included Shri Narayanan (chair), Elaine Chew, C.-C. Jay Kuo, and Panayiotis Georgiou.
2008.05.07
MuCoaCo alum Rob Parke is selected as a Project MATCH intern for the Los Angeles community college district. The program prepares and recruits a diverse Community College faculty 'sensitive to the needs of the students it serves.'
2008.04.15
Ching-Hua Chuan is elected to Phi Kappa Phi (ΦΚΦ), USC's oldest all-University honor society.
2008.03.03
Jie Liu joins Cisco as a Software Engineer.
03.2008
Arpi Mardirossian joins Buzznet.com as Media Design Manager, where she is working on the development of audio-based music recommendation systems and music visaulization based on the techniques developed in her dissertation.
02.08.2008
Ching-Hua Chuan attends and presents her automated style-specific accompaniment system at the Graduate Student Workshop on The Tonal Systems of Rock at the University of Michigan, part of the Conversations 2008: Music Scholarship in Dialogue conference.
2008.02.08
Elaine Chew and Alexandre François give a McGill University Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) Musical Information Archiving and Retrieval (Axis 3) Workshop (workshop website). Elaine speaks on Music Science and the Mathematical Modeling of Tonality, and Alex on A Design Language for Interactive Systems.
2008.01.25
MuCoaCo folks, Ching-Hua Chuan, Anna Huang (alum), Alex François, and Elaine Chew attend and present at the inaugural meeting of the New England Music Information Special Interest Group (NEMISIG). Elaine gave an introduction to MuCoaCo (slides); Ching-Hua and Anna presented posters. Photos ...
2007.11.5-7
Elaine Chew attends the Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium at HP Labs in Palo Alto, and receives the Best Poster Session Presenter award (two are given, one each to U.S. and Japan presenters).
2007-2008
Analytical Listening through Interactive Visualization
Elaine Chew speaks on "Music and Operations Research - the Perfect Match" at the UMass Amherst OR/MS Seminar Series. The abstract can be found here. For photos, click on the camera ...
2007.08.28
Jie Liu successfully defends his dissertation titled, "User-Centered Design and Computing in ESP: a Driving Interface for Musical Expression Synthesis." Committee members included Elaine Chew (chair), Alexandre François (co-advisor), Maged Dessouky, and Ulrich Neumann.
2007.08.06
Erdem Unal successfully passes his Qualifying Exam. His thesis proposal is titled, "Music Retrieval Systems: Robust Performance Under the Effect of Uncertainty." Committee members included Shri Narayanan (chair), Elaine Chew, Panayiotis Georgiou, Keith Jenkins, and Cyrus Shahabi."
2007.06.18-19
Ching-Hua Chuan presents a paper titled "A Hybrid System for Automatic Generation of Style-Specific Accompaniment," and Alex François and Elaine Chew present "MIMI - multi-modal interaction for musical improvisation" at the 4th International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity at Goldsmiths (CC07), University of London."
2007.06.05
Arpi Mardirossian successfully defends her PhD dissertation, titled "Investigations in Music Similarity: Analysis, Organization, and Visualization using Tonal Features." Committee members included Elaine Chew (chair), Shri Narayanan, and Sheldon Ross.
2007.05.29
Ching-Hua Chuan successfully presents her proposal for her PhD dissertation at her qualifying examination, titled "Hybrid Methods for Music Analysis and Synthesis: Audio Key Finding, Phrase Segmntation, Automatic Accompaniment.""
2007.05.19
Mimi @ the Berlin Musical Instrument Museum
MIMI's international debut took place in a lecture & demonstration titled "The Seiler Grand Piano and Computer-Interactive Improvisation with MIMI" by Alex François and Elaine Chew, at Berlin's Musical Instrument Museum, as part of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM2007).
2007.05.18-20
Elaine Chew presents a three papers, (co-author Alex François) "Visible Humour : Seeing PDQ Bach's Musical Humour Devices in The Short-Tempered Clavier," (co-author Eric Cheng) "A Local Maximum Phrase Detection Method and the Analysis of Phrasing Strategies in Expressive," and "Pitch Symmetry and Invariants in Webern's 'Sehr Schnell'" at the International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM2007).
2007.05.16
Jie Liu wins a USC Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
2007.04.18
Jie Liu speaks on "Human-Centered Computing and Design in ESP:a driving interface for musical expression synthesis" at the ISE PhD seminar. The talk covers the implementation of ESP system, ensuring tempo smoothness, performance similarity based on different interpretations, and road design based on modeling a driver's behavior.
2007.04.06
Ching-Hua Chuan is one of three students awarded the 2007-2008 Digital Dissertation Fellowship for her project titled "Automatically Generated Style-Specific Musical Accompaniment." The project aims to create a computer-assisted music-making system that takes a user's original melody (input by humming), and automatically creates (by a combination of statistical and knowledge-based methods) sophisticated accompaniment for the melody, in the style of the user's favorite piece or music band.
2007.04.02
Elaine Chew is awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor.
2007.03.16
Elaine Chew presents the Mathematics in Music concert and conversations, and an ESP demonstration with Alexandre François at the National University of Singapore Arts Festival. See: Campus Observer article and Arts Festival announcement.
2007.02.23-28
Elaine Chew gives series of lectures -- a public lecture on "Music, Mathematics and Computing - beyond tuning, fractions, and sound synthesis," a computer science lecture on "Heuristics and Algorithms for Music Problems," and "the Mathematics in Music" lecture-concert -- as part of the Women Scholars Lecture Series at the University of Victoria in Victoria, B.C., Canada, hosted by George Tzanetakis.
2007.02.17
MuCoaCo hosts the inaugural symposium of the Southern California Computing in Music network (SCCiM/2007i) at the University of Southern California, together with the University of California, San Diego. Elaine Chew and Shlomo Dubnov (UCSD) are organizers, assisted by PhD candidates Arpi Mardirossian and Jie Liu, and Arshia Cont (UCSD).
2007.02.15
Jeanne Bamberger visits and gives guest lecture on "Tracing the compositional process - a natural experiment," 6:30pm - 9:10pm, at KAP 156, in the ISE 575 class [ course website ]
2007.02.07
Arpi Mardirossian speaks on "Modeling Music's Look, Feel, and Behavior" at the ISE PhD seminar.
2007.02.05
Arpi Mardirossian gives practice talk titled "Modeling Music's Look, Feel, and Behavior" at 3pm in PHE 104 for a job interview at Occidental College.
2007.01.24
The Mathematics in Music
Elaine Chew produces and performs in an Arts and Humanities Initiative event, the Mathematics in Music, a lecture performance with a live demonstration of MuSA.RT, and the world premiere of composer Tamar Diesendruck's Sudoku Variations. [ event site, reh video clips, latimes article ]
2007.01.23
MuCoaCo participates in the IMSC Open House, held in onjunction with the LA County Tech Week.
2007.01.06
Ching-Hua Chuan and Elaine Chew attend and present at the Special Sessions on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, part of the Joint Mathematics Meeting in New Orleans, the 113th Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society. Session details can be found here. For photos, click on the camera ...
2006.11.21
Eric Cheng successfully defends his Masters thesis on "Computational Modeling of Expression in Violin Performance". Present were Professors Chew, Kyriakakis, and Narayanan.
2006.11.17
2:00PM, PHE 104. Eric Cheng gives practice thesis defense presentation.
2006.10.03
3:30M, PHE 104. Arpi Mardirossian gives practice presentation for her ISMIR 2006 paper.
2006.09.01
Merrick Mosst successfully defends his Masters thesis on "Quantitative Modeling of Emotion Perception in Music". Present were Professors Chew, Kyriakakis, and Ortega. Merrick's presentation was commended by Prof. Ortega, Associate Chair of EE-Systems, for being the best Masters thesis presentation he has seen.
2006.08.31
4:00PM, PHE 104. Merrick Mosst gives practice thesis defense presentation.
2006.08.21
Arpi Mardirossian, successfully defends her thesis proposal in the qualifying examination. Present were Professors Chew, Narayanan, Palmer, Ross, and Yang.
2006.06.14-16
Jie Liu presents paper titled "From Driving to Expressive Music Performance: Ensuring Tempo Smoothness" and Jie Liu and Alex François present the ESP demo at the first ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment (ACE2006). Paper acceptance rate was 12%, the ESP demo wins the Bronze Prize by popular vote.
2006.06.09
Arpi Mardirossian is one of three USC students to win the 2006-2007 Digital Dissertation Fellowship, a fellowship "designed to foster multimedia research that expands the potential of academic publication via emergent and transitional media".
2006.06.06
California StreamIN remote performance experiment takes place between IMSC and Stanford CCRMA's Soundwire Group. ChangHyun Kim (CCRMA), Rob Parke, Leila Vaziri, Sakire Arslan, and Qin Min (IMSC) lead the setup. Kim and Vaziri learn, practice, and perform Mozart's "Larghetto und Allegro" over the Internet (two-way low-latency audio streaming). The DIP faculty team consists of Chew, Zimmermann, Sawchuk, Papadopoulos, and Kyriakakis. CCRMA and the Soundwire Group are headed by Chris Chafe. See the California StreamIN site.
2006.05.10
ISE 599 (aka ISE 575 b) class on Computational Modeling of Expressive Performance and final projects highlighted in the Viterbi news: Engineering Class Creates Tools to Analyze Musical Expression [ projects, press, photos ]
2006.05.04
Jie Liu, successfully defends his thesis proposal in the qualifying examination. Present were Professors Chew, Dessouky, François, Liu, and Yang.
05.2006
Merrick Mosst is awarded the Rose Hills Merit Scholarship, a competitive merit-based scholarship program for Southern Californian citizens in an undergraduate or "4+1" program in the Life or Natural Sciences or Engineering.
05.01.2006
Anna Huang wins the 2006 Outstanding Research Award In Computer Science at USC "in recognition of her excellence in research and outstanding contributions to the department and to the university" (awards ceremony).
2006.04.3-7
Gérard Assayag visits and gives a demo/lecture/workshop series in the Viterbi Early Career Chair Lecture Series (website).
2006.03.03
Curtis Roads visits and speaks on "Synthesis, analysis, and visualization of sound based on Gabor's atomic model" in the Viterbi Early Career Chair Lecture Series.
2006.02.15-16
Jeanne Bamberger visits and speaks on "Expressing the Difference: Comparing Great Performances" in the Viterbi Early Career Chair Lecture Series and on "Situated Inquiry: Moving between action and representation" in the MUED 520 class.
2006.02.10
Chris Chafe visits and speaks on "Tapping into the Internet as an Acoustical Medium" in the Viterbi Early Career Chair Lecture Series.
Anja Volk accepts postdoctoral position (starting May 2006) in the Witchcraft Project, an NWO-CATCH funded project at the University of Utrecht, where she will be deputy supervisor of the music information retrieval project.
2005.12.12
11:30AM, PHE 104. Aaron Yang gives trial run of MIPR paper presentation.
2005.12.02
Anna Huang is a finalist for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award: In the Viterbi News: Viterbi Engineer-Musician is Finalist for CRA 2006 Undergrad Honor
2005.10.10
4PM, PHE 104. Ching-Hua Chuan's and Arpi Mardirossian's report on ISMIR 2005: Part II.
2005.10.6-8
USC 125th Anniversary Celebrations - Festival 125
(Festival Pavilion)
Expression Synthesis Project (ESP) Demo -- 9AM-7PM Oct 6-7, 9AM-12:30PM Oct 8
2005.10.6-7
IMSC Open House @ MuCaoCo Lab for Festival 125, Viterbi School of Engineering's 100th Anniversary and Trojan Parents Weekend (2PM-5PM Oct 6, 10AM-6PM Oct 7)
2005.10.03
4PM, PHE 104. Ching-Hua Chuan's and Arpi Mardirossian's report on ISMIR 2005: Part I.
2005.09.10-15
The 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2005, will be held at Queen Mary, University of London (ISMIR 2005), with tutorials at Goldsmith's College. Elaine Chew is gave an invited tutorial on Music Background with Dalia Atlas; Ching-Hua Chuan presented a full paper; and, Arpi Mardirossian, Chew and Chuan are organizers of the key-finding competition.
2005.09.05
3PM, PHE 104. Ching-Hua Chuan gives trial run of ISMIR presentation.
Erdem Unal gives update on NSF-ITR query-by-humming project.
2005.08.29
1PM, PHE 104. Ching-Hua Chuan reports on music and audio processing papers at ICME 2005, Amsterdam.
Liu Jie and Arpi Mardirossian report on the IIE Doctoral Colloquium.
2005.07.6-8
Ching-Hua Chuan attends and presents a paper on audio key finding at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2005) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2005.07.4-5
Elaine Chew attends and presents a paper on the distributed immersive performance project at the 5th open workshop of MusicNetwork in Vienna, Austria.
2005.07.2-6
Anja Volk attends and presents a paper the 10th rhythm Perception and Production Workshop (RPPW2005) in Bilzen, Belgium
2005.06.20
Music theorist Alfred Cramer visits MuCoaCo with You Young Kang and a student.
2005.06.18-25
Anna Huang's composition, "Breathe", wins first prize in the San Francisco Choral Artists' New Voices Project -- A Program for Young Composers. The piece premieres in Oakland, Palo Alto and San Francisco.
2005.06.13-15
The Integrated Media Systems Center hosts its annual Scientific Advisory Board / Board of Councillors and National Science Foundation site visit. Ching-Hua Chuan, Anna Huang, Jie Liu and Carley Tanoue present demos and posters, Arpi Mardirossian and Aaron Yang present posters.
Carley Tanoue's review of the Fourth MUSICNETWORK Open Workshop is on the Computer Music Journal online.
2005.05.30
USC Viterbi School of Engineering news article on ESP: Baby, You Can Drive My Song. The Expression Synthesis Project (ESP) team consists of Elaine Chew, Alex François, Jie Liu and Aaron Yang.
2005.05.14
Arpi Mardirossian and Jie Liu, ISE PhD candidates, were selected to participate in, and present posters at, the IIE doctoral colloquium.
Carley Tanoue and Eric Wiggins won the best presentation award at the 9th IMSC Student conference for their presentation on the Distributed Immersive Performance project.
2005.01.16
Arpi Mardirossian, Ching-Hua Chuan and Elaine Chew propose the key-finding competition (audio and symbolic) and evluation strategies for the 2nd Annual Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX), part of ISMIR 2005.
2002.04.15
Flying Sonics - a tale of immersive audio and diverse instruments
The event showcases state-of-the-art immersive audio technology with live electro-acoustic performance. Spatial sounds interact with live performance to create a new sonic experience for the audience. (website).
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