Workshop I: Computer in Systematic Musicology (Klaus Frieler)
In the last decade, significant steps towards more user-friendly and reliable software tools for musicological research have been made, which opens up opportunities for new experimental paradigms and methodologies. For example, experiments using a production paradigm are very time-consuming due to the necessary transcription step, which can be now significantly sped up using semi-automatic approaches. Moreover, modern computer-based methods allow characterising and comparing musical stimuli and experimental outcomes in a much more comprehensive, objective and flexible way. Likewise, corpus-based methods are a promising approach for incorporating aspects of music cultural background into cognitive models and allow “distant reading (listening)” approaches to cultural and historical studies of music. These are just some examples for using computers in systematic musicology, where computers serve as a generalised tool for measurement, data analysis, text-processing, presentation, communication and many more.
In this workshop, a brief overview of available tools, techniques and user-scenarios will be given, before the participants engage in a hands-on introduction with carefully crafted examples, exercises and use-cases, which will be based on freely available tools (Sonic Visualiser, MeloSpyGUI, Dig That Lick Pattern/Similarity Search) and data sets (Essen Folk Song Collection, Weimar Jazz Database).
Prerequisites
It is recommended to have installed Sonic Visualiser, Audacity, and the MeloSpyGUI on your laptop. A statistics (e.g., R) and a spreadsheet software (e.g., Calc, Excel) are also recommended. No special computer skills are required.
max. 15 participants