| 29Jan | Music’s Challenges to AI Studies: Founding a New Field? (Professor Georgina Born OBE FBA, University College London) |
A new kind of music studies is needed to analyse the influence of artificial intelligence on music. Yet music also changes how we think about AI. In this paper I take three angles on the challenges posed by AI to music and music to AI. |
| 03Dec | Composers' Workshop: STUDENTS' FORUM | |
| 03Dec | Decoding India’s earliest notation: quantitative approaches to a 7th-century inscription: Richard Widdess (SOAS), Marcus Pearce (QMUL), Alberto Alcala Alvarez (UNAM) and Pablo Padilla (UNAM) |
Musical notation in South Asia has historically been associated with pedagogy and music theory. The earliest surviving example is a 7th-century rock inscription at Kuḍumiyāmalai, in South India, recording seven extended melodies in seven different modes. |
| 28Nov | Online Music Subject Masterclass |
This Masterclass will be delivered virtually by academic staff and current students from the Faculty of Music. |
| 27Nov | Grappling With a Woman-Thinker: Representations of Female Pianists in the Writings of Alexei Losev (Professor Marina Frolova-Walker FBA, University of Cambridge) |
Тhe last third of the 19th century saw great advances in the professionalisation of female pianists in Russia. The two conservatories, founded in the early 1860s, issued their best graduates a diploma that declared them to be “free artists”. |
| 27Nov | Postgraduate Open Day |
There will be an informal drop-in session for prospective applicants to engage with current postgraduate students and staff at the Faculty of Music. Applicants are then welcome to attend the weekly Colloquia series. |
| 26Nov | Composers' Workshop: Fidelio Trio |
This year, the renowned Fidelio Trio will be visiting us on two separate occasions to work with students on their own pieces for piano trio. At this workshop the Trio will play and demonstrate some of their repertoire and various techniques of scoring etc. |
| 20Nov | Restoring Obrecht’s Missa Scaramella (Dr Fabrice Fitch, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) |
In this lecture I will present and discuss my reconstruction (or restoration) of the fragmentary Missa Scaramella by Jacob Obrecht (c.1457/8–1505). It survives uniquely in two of an original set of four part-books. Reconstructing the material of the two missing part-books (the top voice and the tenor) poses very different problems. |
| 19Nov | Automatic Identification of Samples in Hip-Hop Music via Deep Metric Learning and an Artificial Dataset (Huw Cheston, University of Cambridge) | |
| 19Nov | Composers' Workshop: James Pearson |
James Pearson is a pianist, composer and creative tour de force. He is the Artistic Director at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club where his trio are the house band. Their last album ‘Swing the Club’ recorded live at the venue received excellent reviews across the board. |
