Re: [MUSIC-IR] musical complexity

[Arshia Cont <arshia.cont@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tom,

This was the main topic of a colloqium organized at Ircam in 2009  
bringing scientists, artists and philosophers together. Some of the  
presentation videos are actually online:

http://agora2009.ircam.fr/symposium.html?L=1


Besides this, a recent publication of me and my colleagues discusses  
the issue (taken directly out of my thesis) and just assymptotically  
touching this (very important) issue -- using methods of information  
geometry:

Cont A., Dubnov S., and Assayag G., On the Information Geometry of  
Audio Streams with Applications to Similarity Computing, IEEE  
Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 19, no. 4,  
Pp. 837-846, May 2011.

Cheers,




Arshia Cont
Researcher, Musical Representations Team, +
Head of Musical Research,
Ircam - Centre Pompidou.
http://repmus.ircam.fr/Arshia-Cont

On Aug 11, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Tom Cochrane wrote:

> (apologies for cross postings)
>
> Dear listmembers
>
> Does anyone know of any important articles or books which discuss  
> the issue of musical complexity? I am particularly interested to  
> find papers that debate how musical complexity should be understood  
> at a high theoretical level. For instance, should musical complexity  
> be understood in purely information theoretic terms or in terms of  
> our psychological capacity to predict and remember (e.g. analogous  
> to the way that amplitude differs from perceived loudness)?
>
> cheers
>
> Tom
>
>
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