Music technology for Turkish music: review of state-of

Music technology for Turkish music:
review of state-of-the-art and challenges
Barış Bozkurt,
Bahçeşehir University
MIR: Music Information retrieval
Müzik Bilgi Erişim
Developing computer based tools for:
- Extracting, accessing, representing, …
information from music data
- Facilitating query of items in large databases.
User query interface:
• Text
• Humming/singing
• Recording example
• Notation
• …
Lyrics, musicians,
meta data)
ISMIR - The International Society for
Music Information Retrieval : ISMIR 2000-...
Popular MIR Applications
•  Royalty rights tracking
•  Monitoring broadcast
•  Recommendation systems
•  Data access
•  Query by example/humming
•  Music analysis
•  Automatic transcription
•  Parametric analysis on large databases
Most of MIR studies considered Western popular
music
Publications and technologies:
~ 90% Western classical and popular music
~ 10% the rest
!! There is a risk for local cultures !!
MIR from a culture specific perspective
http://compmusic.upf.edu
Targets of our research group
•  Theory-practice mismatches
–  We would like to provide a bridge between the two by
developing measurement tools
•  Instrument building
–  We would like to build tools to help instrument makers
(tuners for example)
•  Educational tools
–  We would like to develop tools that help people learn from a
recording (interactive learning)
•  Music information retrieval applications
–  We would like to develop tools for automatic makam
recognition, transcription, segmentation, etc.
(An incomplete list of) Data types we analyze
Audio
Score
Meta-data
Music theory:
makam, usul, seyir, …
Audio
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Tuning research
Analysis of ‘perde’ hierarchies
Analysis of seyir
Analysis of usul (beat hierarchies)
Music theory:
makam, usul, seyir, …
Matlab Toolbox for intonation analysis
Used in PhD studies of Eren Özek and Ali Tan.
Audio
-  Automatic transcription
-  Notation
-  Lyrics
-  Audio-score alignment
-  Audio-lyrics alignment
Score
Automatic analysis of large databases which is manually
very costly
- Analysis of the repertoire to gather statistical data on:
-  Phrase boundaries
-  Perde/interval distributions
-  Onset distributions
-  …
Score
Music theory:
makam, usul, seyir, …
Long term melodic progression analysis on a repertoire
Muhayyer eserler
Automatic phrase and çeşni segmentation
We target development of tools to serve researchers,
musicians, music lovers.
... and we look for collaborations.
QUESTIONS?