An Introduction to Music Technology

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Xiang Cao• Computer Science from Zhejiang University

• Music Technology from Georgia Tech

• Apple Inc.

Agenda• Different fields of music technology

• Show some examples from myself and others in selected fields

Music Technology as a field of study and research

• Music Information Retrieval (MIR)

• New Musical Instrument Design

• Robotic Musicianship

• Electronic Music

• Psychoacoustics

• and more…

Music Information Retrieval - How to make it

• Music Information Retrieval (MIR)

• Apply computer algorithm on music as a series of signal

• Involve Pattern recognition, machine learning, DSP, etc…

• Basics like beat, key, genre, pitch and chord detection.

Music Information Retrieval - Example

• Automatic Accompaniment

Music Information Retrieval - Example

• Automatic Accompaniment

Music Information Retrieval - Example

• Automatic Accompaniment

Music Information Retrieval - Example

• Automatic Accompaniment

New Musical Instrument Design - Where is my

New Musical Instrument Design - Where is my

• Traditional string instruments like piano and guitar are dated back to hundreds of years ago

New Musical Instrument Design - Where is my

• Traditional string instruments like piano and guitar are dated back to hundreds of years ago

• With technology, musical instruments are not bounded in their traditional forms any more

New Musical Instrument Design - Where is my

• Traditional string instruments like piano and guitar are dated back to hundreds of years ago

• With technology, musical instruments are not bounded in their traditional forms any more

• Theremin: one of the first electronic musical instrument

New Musical Instrument Design - Where is my

• Traditional string instruments like piano and guitar are dated back to hundreds of years ago

• With technology, musical instruments are not bounded in their traditional forms any more

• Theremin: one of the first electronic musical instrument

New Musical Instrument Design - Example

New Musical Instrument Design - Example

• wanna have a rock band but cannot afford any instruments?

New Musical Instrument Design - Example

• wanna have a rock band but cannot afford any instruments?

New Musical Instrument Design - Example

• wanna have a rock band but cannot afford any instruments?

Robotic Musicianship - Whom should I play with?

• The ultimate human-computer interaction in music

Robotic Musicianship - Whom should I play with?

• The ultimate human-computer interaction in music

Electronic Music - Is this still music?

Electronic Music - Is this still music?

• Algorithm synthesized sound are manipulated by controllers, sensor or code

Electronic Music - Is this still music?

• Algorithm synthesized sound are manipulated by controllers, sensor or code

• Computer languages are invented to compose music.

Electronic Music - Is this still music?

• Algorithm synthesized sound are manipulated by controllers, sensor or code

• Computer languages are invented to compose music.

• Sometimes, the music is composed to showcase technology

Electronic Music - Is this still music?

• Algorithm synthesized sound are manipulated by controllers, sensor or code

• Computer languages are invented to compose music.

• Sometimes, the music is composed to showcase technology

• Read the document before listening!

Electronic Music - Is this still music?

• Algorithm synthesized sound are manipulated by controllers, sensor or code

• Computer languages are invented to compose music.

• Sometimes, the music is composed to showcase technology

• Read the document before listening!

• Live coding in a performance!

Electronic Music - Example

• Stanford Laptop Orchestra

Electronic Music - Example

• Stanford Laptop Orchestra

Q&A