Publications

Below is a selected list of scientific publications from members of MaSC since 2014.

2024

Maia, L., Namballa, R., Rocamora, M., Fuentes, M. & Guedes, C. (2024). Investigating Time-Line-Based Music Traditions with Field Recordings: A Case Study of Candomblé Bell Patterns. Proceedings of the Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2024). San Francisco, USA.

Maia, L., Namballa, R., Rocamora, M., Fuentes, M. & Guedes, C. (2024). A data-driven exploration of bell patterns in Candomblé and related West African music cultures. Proceedings of the Third Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Sound, Movement, and the Sciences (SoMoS 2024). Oslo, Norway.

Maia, L., Namballa, R., Rocamora, M., Fuentes, M. & Guedes, C. (2024). Characterizing Audio Problems in a Large Dataset of Field Recordings for Computational Analysis. Proceedings of the Eigth Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music 2024 (AAWM 2024). Bologna, Italy.

Guedes, C. (2024). Exploring of the Musical Traditions of the Shihuh (Field Research Report No. 01). Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research.

Eisenberg, Andrew J. (2024). Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya’s Swahili Coast. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.

 
2023

Guedes, C. (2023). Documenting, analyzing, and preserving sonic intangible heritage in the Arabian Gulf in the 21st century: Current challenges and new opportunities. Paper presented at the 2nd Emirates International Oral History Conference, National Library and Archives, Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 25, 2023.

Juan Sierra, Safeya Alblooshi, Beth Russell, and Carlos Guedes. 2023. A Multimodal Methodology for Music Field Recording and Archival. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–6.

Eisenberg, Andrew J. (2023). “A Feeling for the Boundaries: Sounding the Indian Ocean on the Swahili Coast,” in Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape, eds. Julia Byl and Jim Sykes (University of California Press).

2022

Ganguli, K., Sentürk, S., & Guedes C. (2022). “Critiquing Task- versus Goal-oriented Approaches: A Case for Makam Recognition.” Proceedings of the Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2022). Bengaloru, India.

2021

Ganguli, K., Lali, G., Anantapadmanabhan, A, & Guedes, C. (2021). A passive approach to evaluating Mridangam transcription via perceptual experiment. In International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC-ESCOM), Hyderabad, India.

Ganguli, K., Anantapadmanabhan, A, & Guedes, C. (2021). An approach to adding knowledge constraints by fractal analysis on a generative model of Carnatic rhythm sequence. In Analytical Approaches to World Music Conference (AAWM), Paris, France.

2020

Ganguli, K., Senturk, S., Eisenberg, A., & Guedes, C. (2020). Computational approaches to aid ethnographic research on Maqam melodies. In First (1st) Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Sound, Movement, and the Sciences (SoMoS), Stockholm, Sweden.

Ganguli, K., Plachouras, C., Senturk, S., Eisenberg, A., & Guedes, C. (2020). Mapping Timbre Space in Regional Music Collections using Harmonic-Percussive Source Separation (HPSS) Decomposition. In Timbre conference, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Ganguli, K., Anantapadmanabhan, A, & Guedes, C. (2020). Questioning the Fundamental Problem-Definition of Mridangam Transcription. In Timbre conference, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Ganguli, K., Gomez, O., Kuzmenko, L., & Guedes, C. (2020). Developing immersive VR experience for visualizing cross-cultural relationships in music. In 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (pp. 401-406). IEEE.

Gomez, O., Ganguli, K. K., Kuzmenko, L., & Guedes, C. (2020). Exploring Music Collections: An Interactive, Dimensionality Reduction Approach to Visualizing Songbanks. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion. IUI 2020. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 138-139 2 p. (International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI), Cagliary, Italy.

Lostanlen, V., Sridar, S., McFee, B., Farnsworth, A., and Bello, J.P. (2020). Learning the helix topology of musical pitch. International conference on acoustics, speech and signal processing (ICASSP).

2019

Fuentes, M., McFee, B., Crayencour, H., Essid, S., and Bello, J.P. (2019). A music structure informed downbeat tracking system using skip-chain conditional random fields and deep learning. International conference on acoustics, speech and signal processing (ICASSP).

Ganguli, K. (2019). Culture-aware technologies for visualizing music similarity in the VR space. Presented at the panel on Computational Methods for Cross-cultural Musicology Research at the Symposium on Computational Musicology, Mumbai, India.

Ganguli, K. (2019). Strolling through the songbank: Developing ways of “seeing” cross-cultural relationships in music. Presented at the Symposium on Digital Archiving and Community Engagement, London, UK.

Ganguli, K. Anantapadmanabhan, A, & Guedes, C. (2019). Fractal Modeling of Carnatic Rhythm Sequence: Case-study on a Generative Model. Proceedings of the International Society of Music Information Retrieval conference (ISMIR 2019), Delft, The Netherlands.

Ganguli, K. & Guedes, C. (2019). An Approach to Adding Knowledge Constraints to a Data-driven Generative Model for Carnatic Rhythm Sequence. Trends in Electrical Engineering. (9/3) 11-17.

Ganguli, K. & Guedes, C. (2019).Towards a cognitively-based transcription algorithm for non-Western vocal melody. Algorithmic Music: Value, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence, London, UK.

Guedes, C. (2019). Real-time composition: Its applications and educational potential. Journal of power electronics (9/2).

McFee, B., Kim, J. W., Cartwright, M., Salamon, J., Bittner, R. M. and Bello, J. P. (2019). Open-Source Practices for Music Signal Processing Research: Recommendations for Transparent, Sustainable, and Reproducible Audio Research, in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 128-137, Jan. 2019.

McFee, B. and Kinnaird, K. (2019). Improving structure evaluation through automatic hierarchy expansion. International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference, 2019.

Tralie, C.J. and McFee, B. (2019). Enhanced hierarchical music structure annotations via feature level similarity fusion. International conference on acoustics, speech and signal processing (ICASSP), 2019.

Trochidis, K., Russell, B., Eisenberg, A., Ganguli, K., Gomez, O., Plachouras, C., Guedes, C. & Danielson, V. (2019). Mapping the Sounds of the Swahili coast and the Arab Mashriq: Music research at the intersection of computational analysis and cultural heritage preservation. Proceedings of the Digital Libraries for Musicology Workshop (DLfM), November 9, 2019, The Hague, Netherlands.

2018

Cartwright, M., Bello, J.P. (2018) Increasing Drum Transcription Vocabulary Using Data Synthesis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-18), Aveiro, Portugal. September, 2018.

Fuentes, M., McFee, B., Crayencour, H., Essid, S., and Bello, J.P. (2018). Analysis of common design choices in deep learning systems for downbeat tracking. 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference.

Guedes, C., Trochidis, K., & Anantapadmanabhan A. (2018a). Challenges in computational modelling and generation of Carnatic percussion music. Challenges in Carnatic Music generation. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of Analytical Approaches to World Music, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Guedes, C. (in press). Composing and Improvising. In real time. Text from the Keynote address at the 13th Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research. To appear in Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Guedes, C., Trochidis, K., & Anantapadmanabhan, A. (2018b) Modeling Carnatic Rhythm Generation: A Data-Driven approach based on Rhythmic Analysis. Proceedings of the 15th Sound & Music Computing Conference, Limassol, Cyprus, 2018.

Humphrey, E., Durand, S., and McFee, B. (2018). OpenMIC-2018: An open dataset for multiple instrument recognition. 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference.

McFee, B., Salamon, J., and Bello, J.P. (2018). Adaptive pooling operators for weakly labeled sound event detection. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.

Russell, Beth. (2018). “The Collaborative Project Management Model: Akkasah, an Arab Photography Project”. (eds.) Digital Humanities, Libraries, & Partnerships, edited by Joranson, K. and Kear, R. Chandos Publishing. March 2018.

Sioros, G., Davies, M., & Guedes, C. (2018). A Generative Model for the Characterization of Musical Rhythms.

2017

Durand, S., Bello, J.P., David, B. and Richard, G. (2017). Robust Downbeat Tracking Using an Ensemble of Convolutional Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 25(1): 72-85. January

Eisenberg, A. and de Beukelaer, C. (2017). Mobile-izing African Music: Transectorial Entrepreneurship in African Music Economies. Presentation at Society for Ethnomusicology, Denver, Co., Oct. 27, 2017

Eisenberg, A. (2017). The Swahili Art of Indian Taarab: A Poetics of Vocality and Ethnicity on the Kenyan Coast. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 37:2, 336-354, 2017.

Eisenberg, A. J., Perullo, A., Skinner, R. and Steingo, G. (2017). Popular Music. In Spear, T. (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies.

Eisenberg, A. (2017). Taarab. In Shades of Benga: The Story of Popular Music in Kenya: 1946-2016, by Ketebul Music, Nairobi: Ketebul Music.

Guedes, C. (2017). Composing and improvising. In real time. Keynote address at the 13th Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (Matosinhos, Portugal, Sep. 27th 2017).

Guedes, C., Trochidis, K., and Anantapadmanabhan, A. (2017). CAMeL: Carnatic Percussion Music Generation Using N-Gram and Clustering Approaches. Abstract submission for the 16th Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop (RPPW).

Guedes, C. (2017). Real-Time Composition, why it still matters: A look at recent developments and potentially new and interesting applications. Proceedings of the 2017 International Computer Music Conference. Shanghai, China, 2017.

Toussaint, G. T. (2017). Simple deterministic algorithms for generating “good” musical rhythms. In Emergent Computation: Emergence, Complexity and Computation 24, A. Adamatzky (ed.). Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2017. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-46376-6_1.

Trochidis, K., Guedes, C. & Anantapadmanabhan, A. (2017) A data-driven approach for Carnatic percussion music generation. Proceedings of the 10th International workshop on machine learning and music. Barcelona, Spain, 2017.

2016

De Beukelaer, C and Eisenberg, A (2016). Music Distribution in Kenya and Ghana: Mobile Money and Mobile Music. Presentation (in absentia) at ECREA 6th European Communication Conference, Prague, Nov. 9-12, 2016.

Durand, S., Bello, J.P., David, B. and Richard, G. (2016). Feature Adapted Convolutional Neural Networks for Downbeat Tracking”. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-16). Shanghai, China. March.

Eisenberg, A. (2016). “Zein l’Abdin Ahmed is the Coastal Lute Player Who Popularised Taarab” [obituary], Daily Nation (Kenya), November 4, 2016.

Eisenberg, A. (2016). “A Tribute to Kenyan Taarab Legend Zein l’Abdin” [blog post], Music in Africa. July 26, 2016..

Toussaint, G. T.(2016). “Measuring the Perceptual Similarity of Middle-Eastern Rhythms: A Cross-Cultural Empirical Study,” Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music, 8-11 June 2016, New York.

Toussaint, G. T.(2016). “Phylogenetic analysis of the ancient Greek paeonic rhythms,” Proceedings of Bridges Finland 2016: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Education, Culture, August 9-13, 2016, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.

Toussaint, G. T. (2016). “Phylogenetic tools for evolutionary musicology,” in Mathematical and Computational Musicology, T. Klouche, (Ed.), National Institute for Music Research, Berlin, Springer, 2016, in press.

Toussaint, G. T. (2016). Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Arts, Education and Interdisciplinary Studies, March 15-16, 2016, Dubai, UAE. Title: “Rhythm: A Tool for Interdisciplinary Studies.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Arts, Education and Interdisciplinary Studies, March 15-16, 2016, Dubai, UAE. (Abstract in Proceedings, p. 139.)

Trochidis, K., Guedes, C., Holzapfel, A., Anantapadmanabhan, A., & Klaric, A. (2016). Analysis-By-Synthesis of Rhythm in South Indian Art Percussion Performances by Means of Statistical Analysis. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Analytical Approaches to World Music (AAWM). New York, 2016.

Trochidis, K., & Guedes, C. (2016). Rhythmic Analysis of Carnatic Style Percussive Music Using an Adaptive Time Domain Decomposition Method. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Analytical Approaches to World Music (AAWM). New York, 2016.

Trochidis, K., Guedes, C., Anantapadmanabham, A. & Klaric, A. (2016). CAMeL: Carnatic Percussion Music Generation Using N-Gram Models. Proceedings of the 13th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2016). Hamburg, Germany.

2015

Bello, J. P., Rowe, R, Guedes, C. and Toussaint, G. (Eds).(2015). Cross-disciplinary and Multi-cultural Perspectives on Musical Rhythm, special issue of the Journal for New Music Research 44/1

Bello, J. P., Rowe, R., Guedes, C., & Toussaint, G. (2015). Five perspectives on musical rhythm. Introdcution Journal of New Music Research 44/1 (Bello, J. P., Guedes, C. Rowe, R. and G. Toussaint Eds.)

Beltran, J., F. Liu, X., Mohanchandra, N., & Toussaint, G. T. (2015). “Measuring musical rhythm similarity: Statistical features versus transformation methods, ” International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 29(2), 2015.

Durand, S., Bello, J.P., David, B. and Richard, G. (2015). Downbeat Tracking with Multiple Features and Deep Neural Networks”. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-15). Brisbane, Australia. April, 2015.

Eisenberg, A. (2015).Traditional Music. In Spear, T. (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies. New York: OUP.

Eisenberg, A. (2015). Space. In Novak, D. and Sakakeeny, M. Keywords in Sound: Towards a Conceptual Lexicon. Duke University Press.

Eisenberg, A. (2015). The Soundtrack of Civil Society: Cultural Ownership and the National Imaginary in ‘Afro’ Music Production in Nairobi, Kenya. Presentation at “Music, Property, and Law,” Society for Ethnomusicology preconference symposium, Austin, Texas. Dec. 2, 2015.

Eisenberg. A. (2015). Soundly Placed Subjects: Resonant Voices and Spatial Politics in Mombasa, Kenya. Presentation at “Worship Sound Spaces,” Musée du Quai Branly, Paris. Nov. 3-5, 2015.

Eisenberg, A. “Digital Technology and the Music Recording Industry in Nairobi, Kenya,” Research Report, 2015.

TEsparza, T.M., Bello, J.P., and Humphrey, E.J. From Genre Classification to Rhythm Similarity: Computational and Musicological Insights. Journal of New Music Research, 44(1): 39-57. March, 2015.

Leroi, A., Mauch, M., Savage, P., Benetos, E., Bello, J.P., Panteli, M., Six, J., and Weyde, T. The Deep History of Music Project. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA-15), Paris, France. June, 2015.

Mohamad, M. , Rappaport, D., & Toussaint, G. T. (2015). Minimum many-to-many matchings for computing the distance between two sequences, Graphs and Combinatorics, 31, 1637-1648.

Sethares, W.A., & Toussaint, G.T. (2015). Expressive Timbre and Timing in Rhythmic Performance: Analysis of Steve Reich’s Clapping Music. Journal of New Music Research, 44(1), 11-24. March, 2015.

Toussaint, G. T. (2015) “The Euclidean algorithm generates traditional musical rhythms,” Interalia Magazine, (Richard Bright, Ed.), Issue 16, September 2015.

Toussaint, G. T. (2015). “Quantifying musical meter: How similar are African and Western rhythm?” Analytical Approaches to World Music Journal, 4(2), 1-30.

Toussaint, G. T. (2015). “Modeling musical rhythm mutations with geometric quantization, ” Chapter 12 in Mathematical and Computational Modeling: With Applications in Natural and Social Sciences, Engineering, and the Arts, R. Melnik (Ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., May 2015, 299-308.

Toussaint, G. T. (2015). “Objective stimulus predictors of perceptual and performance complexities of temporal patterns.” Abstracts of the 15th Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop, Amsterdam, July 6-8, 2015, p.74.

2014

Anantapadmanabhan, A., Bello, J.P., Krishnan, R. and Murthy, H. (2014). Tonic-Independent Stroke Transcription of the Mridangam. Proceedings of the AES International Conference on Semantic Audio, London, UK. January.

Dias, R., Guedes, C. & Marques, T. (2014). A computer-mediated interface for Jazz piano comping. Proceedings of the Joint International Computer Music and Sound and Music Computing Conference (ICMC 2014-SMC 2014).

Eisenberg, A. “Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World, edited by Eric Charry.” African Studies Review 57(3) (2014). 238–40.

Perullo, A. and Eisenberg, A. (2014). Musical Property Rights in Tanzania and Kenya after TRIPs. In Halbert, D. and David, M. (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Intellectual Property. Sage

Sioros, G. & Guedes, C. (2014). “Syncopation as Transformation.” in Music, Sound and Motion. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (8905), pp.635-658. New York: Springer.

Sioros, G. & Guedes, C. (2014). Transforming musical rhythms: meter and syncopation. Proceedings of the Simpósio de Informática (INFORUM 2014).