Projects

Musical Pattern Discovery

Publications:

  • Iris Yuping Ren, Anja Volk, Wouter Swierstra, Remco Veltkamp, "A Computational Evaluation of Musical Pattern Discovery Algorithms". Submitted.

  • Berit Jassen, Tom Collins, and Iris Yuping Ren, "Algorithmic ability to predict the musical future: Datasets and evaluation". In Proceedings of the 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 2019.

  • Ren, Iris Yuping. Anja Volk, Wouter Swierstra, and Remco C. Veltkamp. "Analysis by classification: a comparative study of annotated and algorithmically extracted patterns in symbolic music data". In Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval, p. 539-546, 2018.

  • Ren, Iris Yuping, Hendrik Vincent Koops, Anja Volk, Wouter Swierstra. "In Search Of The Consensus Among Musical Pattern Discovery Algorithms". In Proceedings of the 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval, p. 671-680, 2017.

  • Ren, Iris Yuping. "Closed Patterns in Folk Music and Other Genres." In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis, p. 56-58, 2016.

MIREX:

Ambiguity and Subjectivity

The HEMAN dataset: A musical pattern annotation dataset.

      • Version 1: Six pieces with 12 annotators (ICMPC 2018: https://github.com/irisyupingren/HEMANanalysis)

      • Version 2: Six pieces with 35 annotators (in preparation)

      • Version 3: Six pieces with 13 annotators (in preparation)

      • Version 4: recruiting participants!

Publication:

  • Ren, Iris Yuping, Oriol Nieto, Hendrik Vincent Koops, Anja Volk, Wouter Swierstra. Investigating Musical Pattern Ambiguity in a Human Annotated Dataset, In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition/10th triennial conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, p.361-367, 2018.

  • Matevž Pesek, Darian Tomašević, Iris Yuping Ren, Matija Marolt. An opensource web-based Pattern Annotation Framework - PAF. Late breaking demo. ISMIR 2019.

  • Stephan Wells, Iris Yuping Ren, Anja Volk. Creating a Tool for Faciltiating and Researching Human Annotation of Musical Patterns. Late breaking demo. ISMIR 2019.

Fractals in Musical Analysis

Pattern finding based on fractal features:

https://github.com/VictorCMiraldo/hs-fragem

Functional programming, Algorithms, and Data Analysis

Domain knowledge incorporation

Comparison of algorithms

Visualisations

Publications:

  • Orestis Melkonian, Iris Yuping Ren, Wouter Swierstra, and Anja Volk. "What constitutes a musical pattern?". In Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modeling, and Design (FARM 2019). ACM, New York, NY, USA, p. 95-105, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3331543.3342587

  • Ren, Iris Yuping, Hendrik Vincent Koops, Dimitrios Bountouridis, Anja Volk, Wouter Swierstra, Remco C Veltkamp. Feature Analysis of Repeated Patterns in Dutch Folk Songs using Principal Component Analysis. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis, p86-87, 2018.

Gamification

    • Creativity

    • Crowd-sourcing

    • Live coding

Automatic Counterpoint