Prof. David Temperley, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, USA

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Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OFAI) der OSGK
Freyung 6/6, A-1010 Wien
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DAVID TEMPERLEY
Professor of Music Theory
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, USA


"INFORMATION FLOW IN MUSIC"


Recent research in psycholinguistics has shown that language processing
is optimal when information is conveyed at a moderate, uniform rate —
a principle known as Uniform Information Density (UID). (Here I use
“information” in the statistical sense, meaning the negative log of
probability: low-probability events are high in information.) In this
talk I will suggest that UID has great explanatory value with regard to
music as well.

Three predictions follow from UID:
1) low-probability events should be lengthened and spaced out in time;
2) an event that is low in probability in one dimension should be high
in probability in other dimensions;
3) an event that is low in probability should be used in the context of
other high-probability events.

I will demonstrate the validity of these predictions with regard to a
variety of musical phenomena: rules of Renaissance counterpoint, the
construction of classical themes, and phenomena of expressive
performance.

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Time: Wednesday, 4th May 2016, 6:30 p.m. sharp

Location: Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut
fuer Artificial Intelligence, OFAI
Freyung 6, Stiege 6, 1010 Wien

OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT
FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Univ.-Prof. Ing. Dr. Robert Trappl

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