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Chord Label Personalization through Deep Learning of Integrated Harmonic Interval-based Representations
The increasing accuracy of automatic chord estimation systems, the
availability of vast amounts of heterogeneous reference annotations, and
insights from annotator subjectivity research make chord label personalization
increasingly important. Nevertheless, automatic chord estimation systems are
historically exclusively trained and evaluated on a single reference
annotation. We introduce a first approach to automatic chord label
personalization by modeling subjectivity through deep learning of a harmonic
interval-based chord label representation. After integrating these
representations from multiple annotators, we can accurately personalize chord
labels for individual annotators from a single model and the annotators' chord
label vocabulary. Furthermore, we show that chord personalization using
multiple reference annotations outperforms using a single reference annotation.Comment: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Deep Learning
and Music, Anchorage, US, May, 2017 (arXiv:1706.08675v1 [cs.NE]
Statistics on Linear Chord Diagrams
Linear chord diagrams are partitions of into blocks of
size two called chords. We refer to a block of the form as a short
chord. In this paper, we study the distribution of the number of short chords
on the set of linear chord diagrams, as a generalization of the Narayana
distribution obtained when restricted to the set of noncrossing linear chord
diagrams. We provide a combinatorial proof that this distribution is unimodal
and has an expected value of one. We also study the number of pairs
where is the minimal element of a chord and is the maximal element of
a chord. We show that the distribution of this statistic on linear chord
diagrams corresponds to the second-order Eulerian triangle and is log-concave.Comment: 10 pages, final revision
The lost chord
'The Lost Chord' was an experimental performance work, reconfiguring its mode of theatre, and relationship to media, according to the site of its presentation. It decontextualised and reassembled a range of materials, originating in the Victorian creative imagination, not usually experienced in a single performance event or in contemporary theatre. Uses of technology varied, depending on artistic considerations. Resources included 4 male singers, Edison cylinder, tape and original text by me, made in partnership with Opera North, (who hosted an earlier installation work of mine which pointed the way to this.) Grand Theatre, Leeds, Jan 2010 and Riverside Studios, London, Aug 2010 - 1 hr, 6 performances. The Lost Chord is the title of Arthur Sullivan's 1877 song depicting an erotic image of sublime connection through music (the organ) within a hymn-like soundworld. Its success was extended by its compatibility (in 3 min versions) with new cylinder recording technology. This was a jumping-off point for each set of performances, reflecting on the impact of technological change on late 19th-century creativity, enacting tensions between utopian and critical experiences of this. During performances, historic technologies in contemporary theatre modes evoked an atmosphere of exchange between past and present. Media were 'organs' channeling lost presences. The audience were presented with a formal dinner setting they were invited to join. The hosts spoke in emotionally intense fragments, caught in lost controversies and searches for departed loved ones, contesting their perceptions of the past and a technological future, through deconstructions of literary and musical texts by Bulwar-Lytton, Morris, Tennyson, Balfe, Sullivan and Anon
Genus Ranges of Chord Diagrams
A chord diagram consists of a circle, called the backbone, with line
segments, called chords, whose endpoints are attached to distinct points on the
circle. The genus of a chord diagram is the genus of the orientable surface
obtained by thickening the backbone to an annulus and attaching bands to the
inner boundary circle at the ends of each chord. Variations of this
construction are considered here, where bands are possibly attached to the
outer boundary circle of the annulus. The genus range of a chord diagram is the
genus values over all such variations of surfaces thus obtained from a given
chord diagram. Genus ranges of chord diagrams for a fixed number of chords are
studied. Integer intervals that can, and cannot, be realized as genus ranges
are investigated. Computer calculations are presented, and play a key role in
discovering and proving the properties of genus ranges.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure
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