FIT  2002 Rencon Workshop: Toward the Number One Pianist in the World [ Japanese | English ]

Date   Place   Events   Sep. 28, 2002 13:00 - 16:00 Auditorium, Tokyo Institute of Technology Forum on Information Technology (FIT2002) （IPSJ and IEICE） You can listen some sounds of  the program by Nemesys's GigaPiano. (2002/12/6) Check below this page! Messages from Participants () Photos ()

Call for Participants

Rencon is an international event, just started in 2002, with the purpose of establishing evaluation methods for performance
rendering systems that generate expressive musical performance automatically. It provides a forum for developing performance
rendering techniques and discussing concrete evaluation methodologies, criteria, and procedures in the framework of a musical contest.

FIT 2002 Rencon workshop, the second Rencon, will be held as a special session of a domestic annual convention
called FIT (Forum on Information Technology, co-organized by IPSJ  and IEICE)
on September 28, 2002, at the auditorium of Tokyo Institute of Technology. FIT 2002 Rencon workshop will
begin with the opening address, followed by a musical contest in which a best performance will be judged by a musical expert
and the votes by audience. In order to make the future Rencon more fruitful, there will be a panel discussion. The panelists will
come from musicology, engineering, and musical business. They will first give brief talks on the common basis for a contest
for computer music systems, and then we will move into discussions, possibly with audience. The closing address will be mainly
on the I/O format of musical data and the regulations on the performance rendering system applying to future Rencon events. 　

We encourage many of you to participate in FIT 2002 Rencon workshop. 　

Program:

1. Opening Address "Rencon: toward the number one pianist" by Rumi Hiraga (Bunkyo Univ.) 　
2. Contest Moderator: Haruhiro Katayose (Kwansei Gakuin Univ. and PRESTO/JST) 　

   Music Entries (a system name is quoted)

   + Manual rendering

   • Mitsuyo Hashida (Wakayama Univ. and PRESTO/JST): (mp3, )
     F. Chopin, Op. 10, No. 3

   + Assistance-type rendering

   • Chika Ooshima (JAIST), Kazushi Nishimoto (JAIST), Yohei Miyagawa (JAIST): "Coloring in Piano",
     F. Chopin, Op. 69, No. 2 (mp3, ) / (mp3, )
   • Tomoyasu Taguti (Konan Univ.): "MUSE",
     W. A. Mozart, K. 311
   • Kenzi Noike (PRESTO/JST), Mitsuyo Hashida: "Yutaka" (mp3, )
     F. Chopin, Op. 10, No. 3

   + Automatic rendering

   • Roberto Bresin (KTH) : "Director Musices" (mp3, )
     W. A. Mozart, K. 1e
   • Keiji Hirata (NTT) and Rumi Hiraga: "Ha-Hi-Hun" (mp3, )
     F. Chopin, Op. 10, No. 3
   • Haruhiro Katayose (Kwansei Gakuin Univ. and PRESTO/JST): "MIS" (mp3, )
     F. Chopin, Op. 64, No. 2
   • Taizan Suzuki (DUO Systems): "Kagurame-I" (mp3, )
   • Gerhard Widmer (Univ. of Vienna): (mp3, )
     W. A. Mozart, K. 280

   (Break) 　

3. Panel discussion
   • Moderator: Rumi Hiraga
   • Panelists:

     Haruhiro Katayose,
     Yoshihiro Takeuchi (Kameoka High School),
     Atsushi Hoshiai (Roland Japan) 　

4. Closing Address "The future Rencon" by Keiji Hirata 　
5. Commendation ceremony 　

The first Rencon was held on July 6 this year as a satellite workshop of ICAD 2002. At the first Rencon, researchers
working on performance rendering made presentations and discussed technical topics and the future Rencon events. The technical topics
included perception, musicology, a case-study on manual rendering, architectures, and working systems. There was a corner, called
MIDI Bar, where the Yamaha Disklavier played automatically performances rendered by systems. ICAD 2002 Rencon workshop
contained a small musical contest where audiences casted votes to decide a winner by listening to six rendered pieces at MIDI Bar.
Since ICAD 2002 Rencon workshop was the first Rencon to investigate the feasibility of following Rencon events, there were no
limitations of rendering pieces. In order to make Rencon close to a real contest where a compulsory music is specified, we will gradually
impose regulations on the contest of Rencon.

There will be a talk on Rencon at ICMC2002 on September 19 from 10:40. You will be able to watch a video of ICAD 2002
Rencon workshop there. 　

For more information:

• mail rhiraga@shonan.bunkyo.ac.jp(Rumi Hiraga (Bunkyo University))