Professor Nick Collins nick.collins@durham.ac.uk
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The Ubuweb Electronic Music Corpus: An MIR investigation of a historical database
Collins, Nick
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Abstract
A corpus of historical electronic art music is available online from the UbuWeb art resource site. Though the corpus has some flaws in its historical and cultural coverage (not least of which is an over-abundance of male composers), it provides an interesting test ground for automated electronic music analysis, and one which is available to other researchers for reproducible work. We deploy open source tools for music information retrieval; the code from this project is made freely available under the GNU GPL 3 for others to explore. Key findings include the contrasting performance of single summary statistics for works versus time series models, visualisations of trends over chronological time in audio features, the difficulty of predicting which year a given piece is from, and further illumination of the possibilities and challenges of automated music analysis.
Citation
Collins, N. (2015). The Ubuweb Electronic Music Corpus: An MIR investigation of a historical database. Organised Sound, 20(1), 122-134. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1355771814000533
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Oct 24, 2014 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 5, 2015 |
Publication Date | Apr 1, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Feb 4, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 12, 2015 |
Journal | Organised Sound |
Print ISSN | 1355-7718 |
Electronic ISSN | 1469-8153 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 20 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 122-134 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/s1355771814000533 |
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© Copyright Cambridge University Press 2015. This paper has been published in a revised form, subsequent to editorial input by Cambridge University Press in 'Organised Sound' (20: 1 (2015) 122-134) http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=OSO
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