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Lecture 9 - January 24th, 2017

Guest Lecture

By George Tzanetakis (Associate Professor) - Music and Computer Science

The Northways

Northway Games

Human Computer Interaction

1. Lack of shared understanding
2. Communication Bottleneck:
   • Input: Mouse/Keyboard (touch screen)
   • Output: Rectangle 2D screen, speakers

Why Music

• The way music is created, distrubuted, and perceived had been and will be transformed by advances in technology.
• Arguably the most complex and expressive interaction with artifacts.

Digital Music Data

• 2000: ~1000 tracks
• 2010: ~13 million tracks

Statisticaly Supervised Learning

Playing/Improvising music with a computer

• Machine Orchestra Kapur - Jan. 2010