VIII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music

Held in Fortaleza, capital of the Ceará state, from July 31 to August 03, 2001

Chairs:

• Geber Ramalho (General Chair) - glr@cin.ufpe.br - Federal University of Pernambuco.
• Francisco Aragão (Local Chair) - aragas@lia.ufc.br - Federal University of Ceará.

Papers Chair:

• Eduardo Reck Miranda - miranda@csl.sony.fr - Sony Computer Science Lab Paris

Music papers Chair:

• Didier Guigue - dguigue@openline.com.br - Federal University of Paraíba

Program Committee:

• Aluizio Arcela, University of Brasília, Brazil
• Daniel Arfib, Laboratoire de Mechanique et d¹Acoustique ­ CNRS, France
• Peter Beyls, St Lukas Art School, Belgium
• Marcio Brandao, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Furio Damiani, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
• Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Giselle Ferreira, Open University, UK
• Francesco Giomi, Centro Tempo Reale, Italy
• Luis Jure, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
• Fabio Kon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Victor Lazzarini, National University of Ireland, Ireland
• Pablo di Liscia, Universidad de Quilmes, Argentina
• Mikhail Malt, Ircam, France
• Jonatas Manzolli, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
• Alan Marsden, University of Lancaster, UK
• Dennis Miller, Northeastern University, USA
• Giovanni De Poli, University of Padova, Italy
• Geber Ramalho, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
• Stephen Travis Pope, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• Petri Toiviainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
• Alvise Vidolin, Venice Music Conservatory B. Marcello, Italy
• Marcelo M. Wanderley, Ircam, France
• Geraint Wiggins, City University, UK

Music papers Selection Committee:

• Celso Aguiar, CCRMA, Stanford University, USA
• Philippe Blanchard, Studio Forum, France
• Alain Bonardi, Université Paris-IV, France
• Carlos Cerana, Argentina
• Pablo Cetta, UCA, B. Aires, Argentina
• Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso, UFRJ, Brazil
• Osman Gioia, UFPE, Brazil
• Giovanni Grosskopf, Agon Studio, Milano, Italy
• Anselmo Guerra de Almeida, UFG, Brazil
• Damian Keller, CCRMA, Stanford University, USA
• Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano, CCRMA, Stanford University, USA
• Mikhail Malt, IRCAM, France
• José Augusto Mannis, CDMC, Brazil
• Tristan Murail, Columbia University, USA
• Aquiles Pantaleao, City University, UK

Results (Selected Papers)

Research Papers

• Everyday sounds: synthesis parameters and perceptual correlates
  
  Damin Keller and Jonathan Berger
  Stanford University, USA
  dkeller@sfu.ca and brg@ccrma.stanford.edu
• Computer-Aided Song Design: Prosody as Scaffolding
  
  Eduardo Reck Miranda
  SONY Computer Science Laboratory Paris, France
  miranda@csl.sony.fr
• Automatic Pitch Spelling: From Numbers to Sharps and Flats
  
  Emilios Cambouropoulos
  Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria
  emilios@ai.univie.ac.at
• ACMUS: Design and Simulation of Music Listening Environments
  
  Fernando Iazzetta, Fabio Kon, and Flavio S. C. da Silva
  University of São Paulo, Brazil
  iazzetta@usp.br and {kon,fcs}@ime.usp.br
• Playing along with D'Accord Guitar
  
  Giordano Cabral, Izabel Zanforlin, Rodrigo Lima, Hugo Santana, and Geber Ramalho
  Federal University of Pernambuco
  {grec,izs,rqcl,hps,glr}@cin.ufpe.br
• Earle Brown's "25 pianos": a web interactive implementation
  
  Didier Guigue and Fábio Gomes de Andrade
  Universidade Federal da Paraíba
  dguigue@openline.com.br and fgandrade@ig.com.br
• Towards complete physical modelling synthesis of performance characteristics in the violin
  
  Jan-Markus Holm
  University of Jyväskylä, Finland
  jan-markus.holm@jyu.fi
• Sound spatialisation using Ambisonic
  
  Oscar Pablo Di Liscia
  National University of Quilmes, Argentina
  odiliscia@unq.edu.ar
• SOM-G, a Language for Granular Synthesis
  
  Paulo Roberto Gonçalves and Aluízio Arcela
  University of Brasília, Brazil
  roberto@cic.unb.br and arcela@cic.unb.br
• An Empirical Comparison of Tempo Trackers
  
  Simon Dixon
  Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria
  simon@oefai.at

Discussion Papers

• Pattern Matching for the Tracking of Melodic Development
  
  Adam Tee, David Cooper, Nicholas J. Bailey, and Des Mclernon
  University of Leeds, UK and The University of Glasgow, UK
  eenajt@electeng.leeds.ac.uk
• Transformação de Partituras Convencionais em Cartas Espectrais SOM-A
  
  Andressa Christiane Pereira and Aluizio Arcela
  University of Brasília, Brazil
  {andressa, arcela}@cic.unb.br
• Mus-ario -- Un simulador de discursos musicales basado en Vida Artificial
  
  Eleazar Garzón
  National University of Córdoba, Argentina
  egarzon@elsitio.net
• Da Cifra Para o Braço: Estudo dos Problemas de Execução Musical em Violão e Guitarra
  
  Giordano Cabral, Izabel Zanforlin, Rodrigo Lima, Hugo Santana, and Geber Ramalho
  Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
  {grec,izs,rqcl,hps,glr}@cin.ufpe.br
• Waveform Synthesis Using Evolutionary Computation
  
  Jônatas Manzolli, Adolfo Maia Jr., José Fornari, and Furio Damiani
  State University of Campinas, Brazil
  {jonatas,adolfo,fornari,furio}@nics.unicamp.br
• Some Heuristics for the Development of Music Education Software: First Steps Towards a Methodology
  
  Luciano Vargas Flores, Rosa Maria Vicari, and Marcelo Soares Pimenta
  Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  {lvf,rosa,mpimenta}@inf.ufrgs.br
• Toolbox para Aplicações Musicais na Internet
  
  Márcio de Oliveira Costa and Jônatas Manzolli
  State University of Campinas, Brazil
  {marcio, jonatas}@nics.unicamp.br
• Espectro Sonoro Explorado com Sistema de Funções Iterativas
  
  Maria Aparecida Silva Cruz, Jônatas Manzolli, and Furio Damiani
  State University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil and State University of Campinas, Brazil
  {tida,jonatas}@nics.unicamp.br and furio@fee.unicamp.br
• An Open Architecture for a Musical Multi-Agent System
  
  Rodolfo Daniel Wulfhorst, Luciano Vargas Flores, Lauro Nakayama, Cecília Dias Flores, Luis Otávio Campos Alvares, and Rosa Maria Vicari
  Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
  {wulfhors,lvf,naka,dflores,alvares,rosa}@inf.ufrgs.br
• SeVEM - Separador de Vozes em Execuções Musicais Polifônicas
  
  Rodolfo Daniel Wulfhorst, Eloi Fritsch, and Rosa Maria Vicari
  Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  {wulfhors, fritsch, rosa}@inf.ufrgs.br
• System for Sound Recognition Applied to Musical Instruments Tuning
  
  Wilson Castello Branco Neto
  Universidade do Planalto Catarinense, Brazil
  castello@uniplac.rct-sc.br
• Etna - a New Advanced Graphical Tree Representation of Music
  
  Wolfgang Chico-Töpfer
  woccnews@web.de
• Etna Builder - Interactively Building Advanced Graphical Tree Representations of Music
  
  Wolfgang Chico-Töpfer
  woccnews@web.de

Music Papers

• Accumulation and Interaction in an Urban Landscape: 'The Urban Corridor'
  
  Damin Keller, Ariadna Capasso, and Scott R. Wilson
  Stanford University, USA and University of Colorado, USA
  dkeller@sfu.ca, ariadna_capasso@yahoo.com, and rswilson@ccrma.stanford.edu
• A Performance Interativa em VAGA
  
  Fernando Iazzetta
  University of São Paulo, Brazil and Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
  iazzetta@usp.br