Summer School
Applicants for a place in the Summer School should express their interest by sending their Curriculum Vitae and a letter of interest that clearly indicates their motivation and previous experience with sound and music computing research at gtzan@cs.uvic.ca.
The theme of the SMC-18 Summer School is "Computational Ethnomusicology." The SMC-18 Summer School will take place from June 30th to July 3rd at the Cyprus University of Technology.
The summer school is suitable for students who are enrolled in MA/MSc/PhD programs in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Music Technology, and Musicology assuming that they have basic experience with programming. Interested applicants will learn about state-of-the-art techniques in music information retrieval and how they can be applied to better understand the musics of the world under the guidance o leading experts in the field.
Topics covered include: machine learning, generation of rhythms, cultural significance of rhythms, deep learning, probabilistic modelling, rhythm and beat information extraction, and pitch/tuning/melody analysis.
Schedule
| June 30th | July 1st | July 2nd | July 3rd | |
| 09:00 - 12:00 | Introduction to Machine Learning George Tzanetakis |
Pitch, tuning and melodic analysis George Tzanetakis |
Inspecting the rhythm spectrum: A study on greek traditional rhythms George Tzanetakis |
Probabilistic Modeling for Music Information Retrieval George Tzanetakis |
| 13:00 - 16:00 | Generating Drum Loops for Greek and World Music Andreas Laghos |
Rhythms as Cultural Representations Yiannis Christidis |
Limassol's Sound Culture Mimis Sofokleous |
Genre categorization in an intangible cultural heritage context Nicolas Tsapatsoulis |
Summer School Lectures will take place at the CUTing Edge university facilities. SMC2018 Summer School is a Joint summer school, co-organized by Terpsichore Program |
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Registration
Early up to 19/05/2018 |
Normal 20/05-20/06/2018 |
Late 21/06-04/07/2018 |
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| Standard Summer School (30/06 - 03/07) | €250 |
€270 |
€290 |
| Students Summer School (30/06 - 03/07) | €250 |
€270 |
€290 |
| Standard Summer School and Standard Conference (30/06 - 07/07) | €500 |
€540 |
€580 |
| Student Summer School and Students Conference (30/06 - 07/07) | €380 |
€410 |
€440 |
- Standard Summer School fees include: access to the summer school (30/06 - 03/07), summer school material, coffee breaks and lunches on the summer school dates.
- Student Summer School fees include: access to the summer school (30/06 - 03/07), summer school material, coffee breaks and lunches on the summer school dates.
- Standard Summer School & Standard Conference fees include: access to the summer school (30/06 - 03/07), summer school material, coffee breaks and lunches during the summer school, access to the conference (04-07/07), conference material, conference proceedings, coffee breaks during the conference, Welcome Cocktail and access to all concerts.
- Students Summer School & Students Conference fees include: access to the summer school (30/06 - 03/07), summer school material, coffee breaks and lunches during the summer school, access to the conference (04-07/07), conference material, conference proceedings, coffee breaks during the conference, Welcome Cocktail and access to all concerts.
- Students must provide documentation proving registered Student status (student's ID or a letter from the Head of Department/Director of Doctoral School prepared on the notepaper of the institution) and it should be sent at info@easyconferences.eu.
Registrations will be done online through www.easyconferences.org/smc2018/info
GEORGE TZANETAKIS
George Tzanetakis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science with cross-listed appointments in ECE and Music at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is the Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in the Computer Analysis of Audio and Music and received the Craigdarroch research award in artistic expression at the University of Victoria in 2012.