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Rencon 2005 at ICMC - Performance Rendering Contest

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The 5th RENCON (Contest for Performance Rendering Systems) http://www.renconmusic.org will be a special event of ICMC 2005 (International Computer Music Conference 2005) http://www.icmc2005.org/ that will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from September 5 to 9, 2005.

+General Information

RENCON is an annual international event that began in 2002. Its goal is to foster research into computational models of and methods for the generation of expressive musical performances. In the past, RENCON was held as a workshop associated with a musical contest that provided a forum for presenting and discussing the latest research in automatic performance rendering and, more generally, computer-based music performance research.

Rendering expressive performance in itself involves complex perceptual, cognitive, psychological, and aesthetic processes. It therefore represents a broad spectrum and constitutes a challenging research theme for computer music research. Moreover, music performance is a promising field for investigating basic principles of human emotion, intelligence, creativity and individuality. RENCON is also considered a landmark research project in the sense that its ultimate goal is the development of a performance-rendering machine that will win "Chopin Concours" by 2050, similar to RoboCup. The process of reaching that goal is expected to spawn many related research fields and yield many interesting results.

+Rencon at ICMC 2005

*Paper presentations

One of the sessions at ICMC 2005 will be sponsored by RENCON and will collect papers that discuss general issues of musical expression, processing methods relevant to music performance.

For the newest version, see http://www.icmc2005.org/.

  • Paper Session: 15:30-
    1. Ramirez, Rafael: intra-note features prediction model for jazz saxophone performance
    2. Marchand, Sylvain: data anticipation for gesture recognition in the air percussion
    3. Hamanaka, Masatoshi: automatic generation of metrical structure based on gttm
    4. Gómez, Emilia: tonality visualization of polyphonic audio
    5. Herrera, Perfecto and Ong, Bee Suan: semantic segmentation of music audio contents
  • Panel Discussion: Monday September 5, 2005. From 17.30 to 19.00
    • Roberto Bresin, KTH Stockholm [PDF]
      Presentation of the panel session
      Duration: 5 min
    • Rumi Hiraga, Bunkyo University [PDF]
      RENCON competition, a brief history and implications
      Duration: 10 min
    • Giovanni De Poli, Universit di Padova [PDF]
      Research trends in automatic music performance
      Duration: 10 min
    • Anders Friberg, KTH Stockholm [PDF]
      Recent advances in the KTH performance rule system
      Duration: 10 min
    • Rafael Ramirez and Emilia Gez, UPF MTG Barcelona [PDF]
      Expressive performance modeling in the ProMusic project.
      Duration: 10 min
    • RENCON 2005 competition: results and discussion
      Duration: 10 min
    • Open discussion: The future of research in automatic and interactive music
      performance.

    see also: http://www.icmc2005.org/index.php?selectedPage=121

*Musical Contest

In the past, RENCON provided good opportunities for participants to listen to and compare musical expression generated by performance-rendering systems. The RENCON musical contest at ICMC 2005 will be before ICMC 2005 and results will be presented at ICMC 2005.

There will be two sections in the RENCON musical contest at ICMC 2005: compulsory, and open. The compulsory section aims to pursue common ground for evaluating performances rendered by computer systems. An open section is planned, in order to make RENCON appealing also for performance rendering systems not focusing on piano performance.

Compulsory section
This section will specify rather rigid commonality in playing musical data. Music submission is restricted to the Minuette KV 1(1e) by W.A. Mozart. A GigaPiano (Nemesys) will be used as the common sound source. After the submitted musical data are anonymously performed at random, subjects in one or more listening tests will rate performances by humans and those by computer systems, taking into account the degree of humanness, and expressiveness. They will also indicate their preference for each performance, e.g. the pleasentness of the performance. The award(s), called the RENCON Award, will be presented to the performance generated by a system evaluated as being the most human-like, most expressive, and preferred by the listeners. If there are more than one such systems are ranked as the top, preferences will be considered.
Score in MIDI, Lilypond and PDF format can be downloaded here.
Open section
In the open section, audiences will listen to anonymously generated performances. No musical genres, instruments, nor sound sources are specified in this section.
Performances by instruments with new interfaces, as well as synthesized singing voices, wind, strings, and percussion are welcomed.
All performances will be published on the web and will be played by a juke-box at ICMC 2005

If you have any question please write to roberto [at] kth.se

+Music Submission Instructions

Performance data should be in Standard Midi File (SMF) for the compulsory section. Any format will be accepted for the open section, although OGG format is preferred. Performances by humans are also welcome in the compulsory section.

Besides performance data, a description of the used system in less than 400 words is required. If a performance is by a human, the description should include the performer's musical experience in less than 400 words.

*Important dates

Deadline for music submission (closed)

August 8, 2005 (Mon)

Acceptance notification (closed)

August 8, 2005 (Mon)

*Notes

  • All the SMFs submitted to the Compulsory Session as well as all performances submitted to the Open Section will be placed on a Web page, and thus must be cleared of any copyright problem. Look at the Creative Commons website for licensing examples
    If copyright problems may occur, please let the organizing committee
    know beforehand.

  • Participants attending the Rencon session at ICMC 2005 need to register for the main ICMC 2005 conference.

  • Web pages for submission:
    music:

+Organizing Committee: