The keynote speaker at the DHCS 2009 banquet on Sunday evening, November 15, will be Prof. Roger Dannenberg, of Carnegie-Mellon University.
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The Music Technology RevolutionRoger B. DannenbergAbstractToday, more than ever, is a time of technological change. It does not seem an exaggeration to claim that we are in the midst of a musical revolution as evidenced by huge changes in music formats and distribution, new modes of music distribution, and the near collapse of live music. The revolution is not over. Most of the changes we have seen recently can be explained in terms of music storage (the CD, digital studio, and iPod) and transmission (radio, cell phones, Internet). It is remarkable that computers have been doubling in computational power every 18 months for 60 years, yet we have mainly used that power to move and store music more efficiently. While storage and transmission are obviously pivotal factors, I believe that ultimately computation will be seen as the major force of change. Computation gives us fundamentally new abilities that include searching, teaching, composing, performing, interacting, and playing with music. I expect these capabilities to emerge in the next decade, and I will show examples from today's research that hint at our musical future.
Dr. Roger B. Dannenberg is an Associate Research Professor in the Schools of Computer Science and Art at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is also a fellow of the Studio for Creative Inquiry. His compositions have been performed by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and many festivals. Dannenberg is well known for his computer music research, especially in real-time interactive systems. His pioneering work in computer accompaniment led to three patents and the SmartMusic system now used by over 100 thousand music students. He also played a central role in the development of the Piano Tutor, an intelligent, interactive, automated multimedia tutor that enables a student to obtain first-year piano proficiency in less than 20 hours. Dannenberg held a patent for large-scale interactive games controlled by crowd noise, and these "stadium games" have entertained many NFL fans. Other innovations include the application of machine learning to music style classification and the automation of music structure analysis. As a trumpet player, he has performed in concert halls ranging from the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem to the Espace de Projection at IRCAM, and he is active in performing jazz, classical, and new works as trumpeter in the Roger Humphries Big Band, principle trumpet with the Edgewood Symphony, and member of the Capgun Quartet.
