David Huron
International Computer Music Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana, 2006 November 10
For more than half a century, researchers in the fields of musicology and music perception have emphasized the importance of expectation in listeners' experience of music and composers' choreographing of sound. On the other hand, many MIR and computer music systems are prediction-driven. Recently, the notion of musical anticipation has emerged in the literature and in various fields addressing both concepts in a single framework and creating excitement in their fields. This panel brings in researchers from various fields tackling different dimensions of research pertaining to musical anticipations. In this panel we hope to arrive at a common ground and definition of musical anticipation to foster research, to share and open up horizon for future research, address and suggest directions for unsolved problems in computer music. We will be approaching the concept with existing examples in cognitive musicology, computer-assisted composition, style generation and music information retrieval thanks to the diversity of the panelists. We also hope that a new community coalesces to study the subject, informed by the diverse traditions of computer music, artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, and music perception.