PaPiOM: Patterns in Pitch Organization in Music

September 2020 - IPEM - Ghent
Joren Six

Presenting: PaPiOM

3-year junior post-doc mandate funded by BOF
  • Patterns (in music)
  • Relevance of patterns in music?
  • Study of patterns in music
    • Perception
    • Corpora
  • PaPiOM: Patterns in Pitch Organization in Music
  • Methods
    • Techniques
    • Corpus creation
  • Network

Patterns (in music)

“Patterns are fundamental in music”
Bod, R. (2013). Who's afraid of Patterns?: The Particular versus the Universal and the Meaning of Humanities 3.0. BMGN-Low Countries Historical Review, 128(4), 171-180.

Relevance

Why study cross-cultural patterns in music?

  • Origins of music
  • Evolution of music
  • Non-human musicality
  • Nature-nurture debates
  • Definition of music

Brown, Steven, and Joseph Jordania. "Universals in the world’s musics." Psychology of Music 41.2 (2013): 229-248.

Study of patterns in music

Action and Perception
  • Context-poor
  • Data-poor
  • Controlled
  • Many studies
Corpora
  • Context-rich
  • Data-rich
  • Wild
  • Few large scale

Repp, B. H. (2005). Sensorimotor synchronization: a review of the tapping literature. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 12(6), 969-992.

Panteli, M., Benetos, E., & Dixon, S. (2018). A review of manual and computational approaches for the study of world music corpora. Journal of New Music Research, 47(2), 176-189.

Study of patterns in music

Action and Perception
Corpora
PaPiOM: perform a larg-scale corpus-based study to identify patterns in music. Link corpus-based findings with other findings.

Study of patterns in music

Why now? Two major shifts in the last decades:

  • Availability of large music archives in digital form
  • Advances in Music Information Retrieval (MIR)
Panteli, M., Benetos, E., & Dixon, S. (2018). A review of manual and computational approaches for the study of world music corpora. Journal of New Music Research, 47(2), 176-189.

PaPiOM: Patterns in Pitch Organization in Music



Contribute to fundamental understanding on how humans around the world organize musical pitch.”
Six, J., Cornelis, O., & Leman, M. (2013). Tarsos, a modular platform for precise pitch analysis of Western and non-Western music. Journal of New Music Research, 42(2), 113-129.

PaPiOM: Patterns in Pitch Organization in Music

Potential patterns common in music around the world:

  • Distinctness of pitches
  • Octave equivalence
  • Number of pitch classes
  • Intervals between pitch classes
Brown, Steven, and Joseph Jordania. "Universals in the world’s musics." Psychology of Music 41.2 (2013): 229-248.

Methods: pitch tracking

Corpus Creation

Corpus Creation: cantometrics

Limitations, risks, challenges

  • Only Recorded music
  • Access to audio recordings
  • Unbalanced collections
  • Meta-data issues
  • Lack of 'ground-truth'
  • Non-robust computational music processing
  • Missing context
  • Cultural bias.

Network

Musée de l'Homme, Paris
Museum for Central Africa, Brussels

FMA 2023 conference organisation at IPEM.

Network: Additional funding requested

Together with Musée de l'Homme, Paris and Museum for Central Africa, Brussels.

  • BELSPO project MusHeCo: a 50% post-doc at IPEM
  • BELSPO network MATOPA: conference organization

Network: additional funding planned

  • FWO project PaPiOM: Mattia style reset
  • FWO network or other: FMA 2023 conference organization

Preliminary work

Ho, M. J., Sato, S., Kuroyanagi, J., Six, J., Brown, S., Fujii, S., & Savage, P. E. (2018). Automatic analysis of global music recordings suggests scale tuning universals. In 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference.

Kuroyanagi, J., Sato, S., Ho, M. J., Chiba, G., Six, J., Pfordresher, P. & Savage, P. (2019). Automatic comparison of human music, speech, and bird song suggests uniqueness of human scales. In 9th Folk Music Analysis Conference.

Leroi, A., Mauch, M., Savage, P., Benetos, E., Bello, J., Six, J., Weyde, T., et al. (2015). The deep history of music project. 5th International Workshop On Folk Music Analysis (pp. 83–84). 5th International Workshop On Folk Music Analysis.

Six, J., Cornelis, O., & Leman, M. (2013). Tarsos, a modular platform for precise pitch analysis of Western and non-Western music. Journal of New Music Research, 42(2), 113-129.

Six, J., Bressan, F., & Leman, M. (2018). Applications of duplicate detection in music archives: from metadata comparison to storage optimisation. In Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (pp. 101- 113). Springer, Cham.

References

Panteli, M., Benetos, E., & Dixon, S. (2018). A review of manual and computational approaches for the study of world music corpora. Journal of New Music Research, 47(2), 176-189.

Brown, S., & Jordania, J. (2011). Universals in the world’s musics. Psychology of Music, 41(2), 229-248. Burns, E. M. (1999). Intervals, scales, and tuning. In The psychology of music (pp. 215-264).

McDermott, J. H., Schultz, A. F., Undurraga, E. A., & Godoy, R. A. (2016). Indifference to dissonance in native Amazonians reveals cultural variation in music perception. Nature, 535(7613), 547.

Savage, P. E., Tierney, A. T., & Patel, A. D. (2017). Global music recordings support the motor constraint hypothesis for human and avian song contour. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 34(3), 327- 334.

PaPiOM: Patterns in Pitch Organization in Music



Questions?


September 2020 - IPEM - Ghent
Joren Six

Duplicate detection

First twin Second tiwn
Audio
Year recorded ? 1949
Title The daughter Mandega ?
People Zezuru Shona / Zezuru
Collector Hugh Tracey Hugh Tracey