The first Rencon was held July 6 as a satellite workshop of the International Conference on Auditory Display at ATR, Kyoto.
We had nine technical paper presentations, voted automatically system rendered performances, and held a discussion based on
the position paper disclosed prior to the workshop

Six performances (one manually rendered and five system-rendered automatically) were played on an acoustic grand piano
with MIDI controller (called MIDI Bar).
The vote was based simply on whether a listener liked/didn't care for a performance.
The first prize went to Hashida's manually rendered piece ``Nina''-- a piano solo in a soundtrack of a Japanese animation movie.
Among the system-rendered performances, Bresin's ``Letter48'' by Bellman got the first prize.
A problem caused by an idiosyncrasy in an acoustic piano made many performances distorted.
 

The position paper by R. Hiraga et al. (PDF )

Call for Participants (finished)

Preliminary Program

Awards

Although it is not final at this moment, RENCON committee plans to give out several awards.

ATR Tour (finished)

July 5 (Fri) 15:15-16:15.
Rencon participants are able to join the tour.
(ATR)

Call for Registration (finished)

Call for Submission (finished)

Committee Members

• Rumi Hiraga (Bunkyo University) Email 平賀1, Chair
• Keiji Hirata (NTT) Email 平田, Program Chair
• Haruhiro Katayose (PRESTO, JST/Kwansei Gakuin University) Email 片寄, Steering
• Kenzi Noike (PRESTO, JST) Email 野池, Secretariat <email changed (8/26)>
• Mitsuyo HASHIDA (PRESTO, JST/Wakayama University) Email 橋田, Secretariat <email changed (8/26)>

Program Committee

Keiji Hirata (Chair), Roberto Bresin, Rumi Hiraga, Yasuo Horiucih, Haruhiro Katayose

This workshop is sponsored by The Kayamori Foundation of Informational Science Advancement in corporation with PRESTO (JST), and MIKI GAKKI.