CNMAT's Music and Technology Seminar

"Steps Towards an Intelligent Editor of Musical Audio: What Has Changed in Twenty Years?"

Bernard Mont-Reynaud
Sony R&D
San Francisco, CA

"It is tempting to look at companion papers that a CCRMA group published in 1982 in the Computer Music Journal, under the title "Steps Towards an Intelligent Editor of Musical Audio" and to get a feel for how relevant this work might be today. The basic theme was that progress of research in music and audio pattern recognition would take audio editing workstations to new levels of intelligence, translating into better performance and usability. Was this a dream? I plan to briefly review the research we did then (with developments until about 1985) to see what aspects of the work, if any, are relevant and "fresh" today, and when aspects are obsolete, what replaces them. Could this type of work, integrating hearing research and music pattern recognition with audio recording and editing practices, make a realistic contribution to the world in 2001? Has the time finally come? Besides discussing my own answers to this question, I am interested to open the floor to a discussion."

After he graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France, Bernard Mont-Reynaud did research at INRIA, then left for Stanford University where he obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science; his advisor was Prof. Don Knuth. He taught CS at UC Berkeley, until called to join research in music analysis at CCRMA. The analysis, visualization and perception of music and audio have been major themes of his work over the years, along with image processing, real-time systems and advanced UI design. Places he has worked include Lucasfilm, TDW, Xerox PARC, Studer Editech and FXPAL. He is currently Chief Software Architect at Sony's "Super Audio Project" R&D facility in San Francisco.

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Tuesday, November 20, 2001, 11:00pm to Wednesday, November 21, 2001 1:00am