4th Open Workshop of MUSICNETWORK
Call for Proposal, Papers, Expositions
Integration of Music in Multimedia Applications
http://www.interactivemusi
cnetwork.org/events/Fourth_OpenWorkshop_2004/MUSICNETWORK-4th-Open-Works
hop-plan-v1-2.html
http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org/
Read on for more information:
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
15th-16th September 2004
http://dmag.u
pf.es/wedelmusic2004/Documents/Location.html
Co-located with WEDELMUSIC 2004 Conference:
http://www.upf.edu/wedelmusic2004/
You are invited to participate at the Workshop and to contribute to the
sessions.
With the support of the European Commission, the MUSICNETWORK project
has
been created to explore the applications and integration of interactive
multimedia technologies for Music, enabling inter- and
trans-disciplinary
collaborations and networking, bridging many important sectors,
including
cultural, commercial, industrial, research and academic. End users are
discovering the multimedia experience, and thus, traditional music
models
are going to be overcome and replaced by their integration with
multimedia,
audiovisual and cross media. Thus the aim is to put together industry
actors and innovative technology providers to help the music industry to
overcome the present problems with the innovation.
The theme of the 4th Open Workshop is the Integration of Music in
Multimedia applications. Currently many new music-related applications
are
strongly impacting and attracting the market. Most of them will become
more
and more widespread in a short time due to users’ demand. Among most
addressed sectors the one presenting more notable form of integration
between music and multimedia there are:
· music education (notation tools integrating multimedia,
educational paradigms, tools, distance learning, mobile learning, etc.);
· music management in libraries (modeling, navigation, metadata,
content description, etc., MPEG-7),
· entertainment (animation, synchronisation, etc., SMIL );
· music and multimedia music distribution and protection
(watermarking, fingerprint, MPEG-21);
· valorization of cultural heritage (modeling, restring, etc.);
· electronic consumer applications: piano keyboards with
symbolic
music representation and audiovisual capabilities, electronic lecterns,
i-TV;
· mobile applications for education and entertainment (cellular
phones, PDA, tablet PC, etc.).
In the current Internet and Multimedia age other applications are
strongly
attracting market attention and most of them will become soon widespread
in
short time. The integration of symbolic music representation in MPEG
could
completely satisfy users’ requirements for properly handling such issue
into tools, allowing to integrate into a single model the powerful one
of
MPEG for multimedia, representation, coding and playback.
The integration of symbolic music representation with MPEG or other
multimedia standards will open the way for a large number of new
applications and markets related to the above applications. This
initiative
may increase the current market for symbolic music representation, which
is
mainly dedicated to sheet music production. It may also open the path to
creating very interesting new applications, and to increase the power
and
flexibility of those applications that already use both multimedia and
symbolic music representation. MPEG has relevant standards in this area
such as MPEG-4 for the audio visual objects, MPEG-7 for the description
of
audio visual content for archives, and MPEG-21 for the Digital Rights
Management and distribution of digital audiovisual.
At present, there is a lack of an integrated Music
Notation/Representation
standard with multimedia. The aim of this workshop is to make a further
step towards a proper standardizing of a Music Notation/Representation
Model. The MUSICNETWORK has worked very hard to create the conditions
for a
Call for Proposals/Technologies within MPEG with the aim of exploiting
the
MPEG framework for integrating Music Notation/Representation in several
innovative applications. As a results an MPEG Ad Hoc Group on Symbolic
Music Representation has been created, a large set of requirements and
innovative applications have been identified and a call for technology
can
be launched. All this material can be recovered from:
·
http://www.interactive
musicnetwork.org/mpeg-ahg/
·
http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org/mpeg-ahg/W6457%20%28Draft%20CfP%2
0Symbolic%20Music%20Representation%29.doc
To this end, the next Open Workshop of the MUSICNETWORK will be mainly
focused on the integration of MUSIC and MULTIMEDIA in an effective CROSS
MEDIA. Several different formats and media may share the same
information
and grant navigation, synchronization and stable relationships
establishment.
The 4th Open Workshop will be organized around the following sections.
For
each section we are open to receive proposals and contributions:
· Applications and Technical papers, chairs: Jerome Barthelemy
(IRCAM, Jerome.Barthelemy@ircam.fr),
David Crombie (FNB, dcrombie@fnb.nl), David
Fuschi
(ILABS, d.fuschi@giuntilabs.it), Giuseppe
Nicotra (ARCA, nicotra@dodiesis.com). The
topic of interests for the Application session is wide ranging. For this
section, we are going to accept papers and proposals from Experts and
from
Industries coming from different areas of music for finals user
applications and/or innovative technologies. Proposals may be Industrial
presentations of music applications or experts papers. The session will
be
focused on current applications, case-studies, applications scenarios,
latest development, as well as future directions, innovative
technologies.
It includes, but not limited to the following areas:
o Education, cooperative work, distance learning, mobile
learning, etc.
o Entertainment, consumer electronics, music and games,
animation,
synchronization, etc.
o cultural heritage, exploitation of cultural assets, archives,
museums, restoration, etc.
o music distribution and protection, fingerprint, monitoring,
business models, mobiles, etc.
o music exploitation, economical impacts of content fruition on
new
media, etc.
o accessibility and culture, technology for supporting
accessibility, etc.
o music modeling and representation, etc.
These interdisciplinary domains share one common point the applications
of
science and technologies in Music or the applications of Music in
interactive multimedia domains
· MPEG SMR, Symbolic Music Representation, Call for Technology,
Chairs: Paolo Nesi (DSI, nesi@dsi.unifi.it),
Giorgio Zoia (EPFL, Giorgio.Zoia@epfl.ch).
The
idea of this section is to provide support to industries and groups that
intent to respond at the Call for Technology of MPEG regarding the SMR
http://www.interactive
musicnetwork.org/mpeg-ahg/.
The work activities in this section will be mainly devoted in making
clear
what MPEG forum expects in response to the CALL and what the MPEG could
provide in terms of benefits and return of investment to these
companies.
The registration to this event is strongly suggested, and should be
accompanied by a simple document including a list of possible questions
or
point that you are interested to see discussed during this section. The
major points will be:
o Presentation of the MPEG SMR Call for Technology, aims and
goals
o Presentations of the proponents
o Open discussion to support proposers
· Exposition Area, Demonstrations and papers, chairs: Kia Ng
(UNIVLEEDS, k.c.ng@leeds.ac.uk), Martin
Schmucker (FHGIGD, mschmuck@igd.fhg.de). For
this section, we are going to accept exposition proposals on all the
topics
of the previous section. Proposals may be related to commercial products
or
Research Results ready to be exploitable from the industry. The
proposals
have to be provided by submitting a description of the application tool,
or
submitting a CD or by allowing a download from a WWW site. The proposal
has
to include a description of the needed space and tools to give a
demonstration (tables, power, poster space, time, etc.), the names of
the
person/people that will present the application and their short
biography
(10 lines), and the material that will be made available for the
attendees
of the exposition.
· Tutorials/Survey on Music/Multimedia Technologies, chairs:
Pierfrancesco Bellini (DSI,
pbellini@dsi.unifi.it), Frencesco Spadoni
(RIGEL, spadoni@rigel.li.it): For this
section,
we are going to accept tutorial and review proposals. They have to be
provided including a short description of the Tutorial/Survey describing
the state of the art of a sector or of a specific technology: the
context
of the tutorial, the speaker with a short CV (short biography, 20
lines),
if the tutorial has been already given in other places, the duration,
the
number of slides, the technical support needed, etc. The most requested
arguments are reported in the following but not limited to them:
o MPEG-4 Audio/SA
o MPEG-4 System
o Optical Imaging, Optical Music Recognition
o Best practices in Music Education
o Best Practices in saving analog audio end restoring
o …..
You are invited to participate at the Workshop and to contribute to the
above sessions.
Free registration, please do via the WWW site of the MUSICNETWORK. The
registration is not mandatory but is strongly suggested, we need to set
up
suitable logistic support for the right number of participants.
http://www.interactivemusicnetw
ork.org/
Submission of your proposal by 28th of May 2004
* To be sent at the corresponding chairs (see email addresses
above),
in MS-WORD or PDF formats
* To be also sent at
musicnetwork@dsi.unifi.it
* To be submitted according to the above description with the number
of
pages suggested below.
* To be submitted with the dates reported below
Please note that all the submissions will be published on the WWW site
of
the MUSICNETWORK. If you don’t agree on this kind of publication please
inform the MUSICNETWORK in the accompanying letter to the submission.
Different types of contributions are welcome:
* Tutorials/Surveys (4 to 8 page of proposal)
* Application and Technical Papers (2 to 10 pages)
* Exposition and Demonstrations (1 page summary)
* MPEG SMR Symbolic Music Representation: (a list of topics to be
discussed)
Important deadlines
* Deadline for submission: 28 May 2004
* Paper selection results: 15 June 2004
* Full paper submission: 28 July 2004
* Workshop: 15 September 2004
As usual, the MUSICNETWORK will economically support a number of
speakers
according to the quality of their proposal, to the relevance of the
topic
proposed, etc. The selection will be operated on the basis of the
proposal.
In addition, the MUSICNETWORK is going to invite a given number of
experts,
asking them to attend the meeting to give their contribution in the
above
mentioned topics. The latter are a sort of keynote speakers on the
Conference topics and are not in competition with the former.
Jérôme Barthélemy
jerome.barthelemy@ircam.fr
01 44 78 15 53
Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique
http://www.ircam.fr
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