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Rencon Workshop at ICMPC 10

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August 25th - 29th, 2008
En-Yu Lounge, Hokkaido University, JAPAN

  • Performance rendering contest: Aug. 25
  • Organized session Aug. 27

What's new

  • Sep. 3rd, 2008
    ICMPC-Rencon was finished successfully! we wish to express our gratitude to those who have participated to this event.

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Call for Participation

The 7th RENCON (Contest for Performance Rendering Systems) http://www.renconmusic.org will be a special event of ICMPC10 (The 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition) http://icmpc10.psych.let.hokudai.ac.jp/ that will be held in Sapporo, Japan, from August 25 to 29, 2008.

There will be two sections in the RENCON musical contest at ICMPC10: an autonomous section, and a type-in section. An open section is planned, in order to make RENCON appealing also for performance rendering systems not focusing on piano performance.

The autonomous section aims to evaluate performances rendered by autonomous computer systems such as the rule-based and example-based approach. Contributors are required to refrain from hand-editing performances during the performance rendering process. The submitted performances will be graded by the attendees of the ICMPC10, and the composer of the test pieces, taking into account the degree of humanness, and expressiveness. The Recon Award(s) will be presented to the system that rendered the best performance, and the Rencon technical Award will be presented to the system the technical implementation of which is the regarded as most excellent. >> Further information

The type-in section aims to build common ground for evaluating performances rendered by human operation using computer systems. In this section, human contributors will render performances, using (a) commercial music application(s) or (an) original application(s). The organizer will provide an original performance interface to those interested. We hope that this trial will be a trigger to discuss the interaction design for performance interfaces, music interpretation model, and its application for music education. >> Further information

*1 We will accept on-site participation, if there is a space in the venue.
*2 The performance, which will be selected by the composer of the test pieces, will be awarded.
All of the contributed performances will be published on the Rencon web page.

The set pieces of music are two original pieces, the ideo-structure of which is that of Chopin and that of Mozart, respectively. They will be given to the contest participants on the contest day. The contest participants of the autonomous section will be required to render both of the Chopin and Mozart-like pieces and the participants of the type-in section will be required to render the Chopin-like piece. Both of the participants of the autonomous section and type-in section will be required to render the performance in limited time. The process to render the performance will be open to ICMPC participants.

Important Dates

  • ICMPC-Rencon Submission Deadline: Apr. 15, 2008*1 (extended)
  • for ICMPC 10
    • Paper Submission (camera-ready) Deadline: May 15, 2008 (extended)
    • Early registration Deadline: May 15, 2008 (extended)
    • Conference: August 25-29, 2008

The contributors of the autonomous section the type-in section are required to register for ICMPC10.
Those who wish to present a paper at ICMPC will be courteously asked to submit the paper to ICMPC10 separately (the paper submission has been already closed).

We will be offering a booth for performance rendering to those who have registered before the deadline. And we will be accepting on-site participation and offer a booth, if there is a space in the venue.

About the Rencon Kit

We welcome your participation to the ICMPC-Rencon. We will offer the Rencon Kit which consists of the APIs for input/output of music score data and performance generation, and a sample program of a rule-based performance rendering, to those who are interested in performance rendering. We are also planning to provide a performance database which will be used a data set for machine learning or examples for example-based reasoning.
We expect that Rencon will be a "ring" to test the possibilities of expert systems, machine learning, example-based reasoning, and statistical mathematical models.

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